Gastric bypass is not the solution I was watching a podcast that had a hamplanet  talking about how he finally made a gastric bypass after saving and "training" for 13 years for it.  If they haven't made any changes or lost a significant amount of weight in 10+ years do they really think this will help? Don't they know that if they keep stuffing their fat face with cake and sodie pop everyday that it wont work.   They have to change their lifestyle regardless, what kind of mental gymnastic are they doing do think this will work? Stop wasting taxpayer money on this bullshit.  Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics. If the nearly 30 million diabetics in America took advantage of this new miracle cure at $25,000 a pop, it would cost three quarters of a trillion dollars ($750,000,000,000.)  If we paid people $100 a pound to lose weight we would still be better off. To treat the nearly 400 million diabetics around the globe that would cost $10 trillion.  Does this make any sense? ~Dr. Mark Hyman, M.D.,  Director the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. Shrinking someone’s stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn’t address the underlying causes. And many will regain the weight because they didn’t change their understanding of their bodies or relationship to food. Clearly, weight loss is critical and important for obtaining optimal health. However, what we are finding in patients who have gastric bypass surgery is that even a dramatic change in diet in a short period of time creates dramatic metabolic changes. All the parameters that we thought were related to obesity, such as high blood sugar, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, inflammation, and clotting, are dramatically reduced even withoutsignificant weight loss because of the rapid effects of dietary changes that control which genes get turned on or off. This is called nutrigenomics – the way food talks to your genes. While weight loss is important, what’s more important is the quality of food you put in your body – food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes. Unless we address the root causes – what we eat, our sedentary lifestyle, and the social and environmental conditions that drive obesity and disease–we will have tens of millions of more diabetics lining up for stomach stapling!  The only ones to benefit would be the bariatric surgeons, the makers of the surgical instruments, and the hospitals who are paid handsomely. To paraphrase President Clinton, “It’s the Food, Stupid!” My book, The Blood Sugar Solution, is a personal plan for individuals to get healthy, for us to get healthy together in our communities, and for us to take back our health as a society.  Obesity and diabetes is a social disease and we need a social cure, not a surgical one. My personal hope is that together we can create a national conversation about a real, practical solution for the prevention, treatment, and reversal of our diabesity epidemic. Source:  https://medically-no-nonsense.com/gastric-bypass-surgery-a-stupid-idea/