Is bariatric surgery all that it is cut out to be?

Hi Gary

Wanted to share this with you -----Look at this - I now weigh the lowest I have in years. Been scrapping windows for hours and hours and still not finished - great exercise obviously :) Will send a photo when I get one.

Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Without you sharing your wonderful knowledge and ongoing support and passion I would still be suffering and my body slowly shutting down, and taking more and more medication. Also couldn't have got through losing my DAD, one of the closet women (aunty) in life AND my husband of 20 years all in one year!

Love ya dude :)

(name withheld)

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Gary:

(The following is published with permission)

This lovely woman has had a lifelong struggle with her weight, finally resorting to stomach reduction surgery.  While she lost a lot of weight initially, much of it was gradually regained.  When I met her for the first time, she was extremely tired, depressed, overweight and, in my opinion, over medicated.

Hair Tissue Mineral Analyses, first performed in 2012 and then repeated in 2013, confirmed that she was malnourished, a common consequence of stomach reduction surgery.  In addition, she had a significant accumulation of lead in her body, possibly due to home renovations (lead paint).  Lead may cause symptoms like depression, brain fog, fatigue, joint pain and osteoporosis.

In my opinion, her stomach reduction surgery was an abject failure and left her with more problems than it has solved.  At the time of her first consultation with me she was on multiple medications including Citalopram for depression, Levothyroxine for an underactive thyroid. Tranexamic acid for heavy menstrual bleeding and Omeprazole for reflux!

Now drug free and much better off!

I am delighted to report that she no longer has any need for drugs and is all the healthier for not doing so!  Her improvement in health is reflected in her body composition stats below.  I want to add that she deserves all the credit; I merely offered her guidance and support - she did the hard work.  Talk about patient!

Here are some charts for my delighted client.  The body composition readings are from her Salter 9106 scales which are inexpensive, simple to use and incredibly reliable.

Note her slow, steady loss of total weight, fat while gaining lean muscle, water and even bone!
Slow weight losses from exercise with a nutrient dense diet and supplementation is the way to go.
Her latest readings are 74.4 Kg and 28.6%.

Evidence of poor adrenal and thyroid function and generally malnourished.  This is typical of bariatric surgery and starvation-based weight loss programmes.
Elevated lead which is associated with fatigue, depression, aches and pains, brain fog, cardiovascular
disease, diabetes and osteoporosis.

Thyrodine test shows very low iodine status as well as possible interference with iodine usage
due to toxic halide exposure (fluorine, chlorine and bromine).  Saliva iodine should be at least 20 ppm.
Urine iodine should be half that of the saliva levels. No wonder her thyroid was unwell!

Test and sort out the iodine problem and the need for thyroid medication may disappear.
Why does your doctor not do this?
Is it because iodine can not be a high value patent medicine?

Is bariatric surgery really the Holy Grail of weight loss?

Stomach reduction surgery (bariatric surgery) is growing in popularity, promoted as a wonder solution for obesity.  The promoters of this high value surgery highlight the upside while downplaying the negatives of which there are many.  Sneaky tactics are used to highlight the upside: Most people undergoing this procedure will lose significant weight over the first years; however, after about five years the weight may start piling back on while diseases of malnutrition begin to set in such as fatigue, diabetes, arthritis and heart disease.  The promoters of bariatric surgery get around these "minor" problems by only measuring and highlighting the benefits of the first three to five years.  If they were to monitor post-surgery for 10 years, the gloss would be taken completely off the covers of their flash promotional brochures.  

Are they in it for the health of their patients, or in it for the money?

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Is there a better alternative for weight loss than bariatric surgery?

A morbidly obese teenager and her mother consult a weight-loss surgeon about bariatric surgery for weight loss.  The surgeon advises mother and daughter that she is a good candidate for surgery; however, she needs to lose at least 10kg before they can safely do the procedure.

Mother and daughter leave the consultation rooms with excitement and are straight into diet and exercise to shed those excess kilograms.

Three months later, they are back at the consultation rooms where the weigh-in shows that she has lost over 15kg!  "Wonderful results!", she is told.  "We can now proceed with the surgery".

Now what's morally and professionally wrong about this story?  Of course, the young woman and her mother should have been told to go away and lose another 10kg, and then another.  Bariatric surgery, in her case, would have been unnecessary, if she had been keep on her present course of voluntary weight loss.

Instead the surgery went ahead.  She would have lost weight from the surgery but been shouldered with a lifetime of dependence on vitamin pills, B vitamin injections and chronic health problems over the short and longterm.

My observation of bypass surgery is that there are initial and often dramatic weight losses, along with improvements in related health problems like diabetes and joint pain.  However; much of these benefits are cancelled out as the years progress.  Issues related to malnutrition begin to take hold, diabetes reappears, deathly fatigue sets in, as does depression, blood pressure may be sky-high and the weight may gradually begin creeping upwards.  What also creeps up are the number and potency of medications - blood pressure pills, diabetes medication and antidepressants are some of the most frequently prescribed.

Health issues that develop years after a procedure are often dismissed as unrelated

Bariatric surgery costs approximately $20,000 in New Zealand.  This does not include the cost of treating the not so infrequent complications that can be many times more expensive than the initial surgery.

Not measured are the social consequences that may cancel out some of the benefits of weight loss.  In some societies, it is an insult not to heartily tuck into the meal prepared by your host.  Dating usually involves sitting down and enjoying a meal prepared by the suitor, or relaxing in a fine-dining restaurant.  Socialising with your workmates may including downing a beer or two.  It is not relaxing to know you may have to leave the room, sometime through the meal to vomit.  It may be easier to avoid the discomfort and embarrassment of such occasions and remain a house hermit.

Obesity usually runs through a family.  The father having the surgery does nothing for the rest of the family, including the children.

Treat the family dynamics - not the individual!

My healthy alternative to bariatric surgery

If I was approached by the Government, which now funds these operations out of tax-payer dollars, what would I do with $20,000?  Here's an example of the plan:

Treat the entire family - not the individual

This is self-explanatory and common-sense.  If family dynamics relating to eating, exercise and socialising are  not taken into account, then failure is certain.

Be sensitive to ethnic needs

Eating is central to most societies and social occasions and food choices are important.  These must be taken into account when counselling on food choices and eating practices. 

Correct metabolic imbalances and better manage any health issues

This is done with a Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis.  No need to say more about this as there is plenty to read about this on my blog.

Assign a personal chef and a nutritionist to the family

The nutritionist would visit the family to analyse their diet, organise their pantry and take them on shopping expeditions.  There would be weekly home visits to ensure progress and compliance.

The chef would be in the home each evening for the first week, teaching the family how to cook healthy meals.  This would reduce to once or twice a week thereafter.

Assign a personal trainer

Every morning at 6am their personal trainer will be knocking on the door to take the family through their paces.  This may be a brisk walk in the morning sun or a strenuous cross-fit class.

Duration

We would go pretty hard-out for three months.  It takes at least eight weeks for old habits to be replaced by new, healthy ones, so 12 weeks is sensible.  After three months there will be a gradual withdrawal of the service gradually cutting the family loose to be fully independent of outside help.

Can I do this all for $20,000?  I could do it for half that - But I'll take the 20k, thanks.

"Sounds like a good plan, Gary, so what's stopping you?"

It will never happen.  It is pure fantasy.  People have been brain-washed into expecting the easy quick-fix.  They have been soothed into a sense of false security about the safety and the wonders of high-technology medical solutions.  I don't wear a white coat.  In addition, all the funding has been corralled by a small group of elite professionals and there is no way hopeful interlopers, like Gary Moller, are ever going to get their dirty little hands on THEIR money!

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About this website

The advice in these articles is given freely without promise or obligation.  Its all about giving you and your family the tools and information to take control of your health and fitness.