Gastric Bypass Surgery

Gastric bypass surgery is a time-tested treatment for morbid obesity and obesity comorbidities.  It has helped hundreds of thousands of men and women achieve permanent and substantial weight loss, after all other attempts to lose weight have failed, and led to an improvement in their overall health and quality of life.  Gastric bypass surgery involves both a restrictive and malabsorptive approach to weight loss.  The stomach is sectioned off to create a smaller food pouch and restrict food intake, while the intestines are divided and rerouted to reduce the amount of calories that are absorbed into the body.  It has been nearly forty years since the first gastric bypass procedure was performed, yet it is still the benchmark by which other types of weight loss surgery are compared.  The amount of intestinal bypass varies among the gastric bypass procedures, but the most common variation is known as the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedure.Learn More about Gastric Bypass