A doctor implants this gizmo from EnteroMedics just under the skin, and hooks up its two electrodes that can electrically block the nerve that makes you hungry. The result? A slimmer you. This could be a sane alternative to the barbaric and permanent gastric bypass surgery.Great for an initial loss of weight, but if you don't change your eating habits permanently it will be for naught. Although, if it is permanent, then it might work long term.That sweet spot is the vagus nerve, a 4mm-wide pipe that connects directly to your brain, with no spinal cord involved. The vagus is the traffic cop for food. It controls the characteristics of hunger, such as those gnawing hunger pangs, and also the expansion of the stomach and the satisfying feeling of fullness. So if the stomach doesn’t expand while you’re eating, you start feeling full after taking a just a few bites.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Alternative to Gastric Bypass
Interesting. [Link]
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Great. Now they tell me...
I dunno. I never saw the Gatric Bypass I had as particularly barbaric. So they sliced me open from my ribs to my waistline. So I had two drains in me for three weeks. Child's play.
Although I still do have the diet of a 45-year-old private detective, and have gained about 40 pounds since reaching my lowest weight. But I'm still down a hundred. I'll take it.
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