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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Warning to a Patient About To Enter The Gastric Bypass Meatgrinder

I am new here and just starting the process of informing myself. I went to one informational meeting and am waiting for my first consultation.
Boy, can I relate to all your feelings! The before/afters are so inspirational, and I'm so impressed by the hard work & success I see here. However, it is a huge ordeal. The drawbacks are very real. Many of the side effects (dehydration, malnutrition, kidney stones, possible gall bladder removal, constant heartburn...) make me hesitant.
We obviously wouldn't be considering this of we hadn't already tried and tried and tried other methods. I work out a lot and, if I do this surgery, I suspect it might be a long time before I can do an hour of high impact cardio several times a week like I do now. I'll really miss that. I'm afraid the surgery will make me feel really unhealthy for months but hope it may mean years and years of better health. I still haven't made up my mind. I just want you to know, you're not alone in being unsure. Hugs.

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Get your facts Gretta from an unbiased nonindustry source with no dog in the fight.
You are right to be reluctant Gretta. Weight loss surgery is EXTREMELY lucrative and it has a high rate of complications and mortality. You also should look into exactly how effective it really is and again get that information from a nonindustry source. Gastric bypass average cost is $32,500 in the US. Some surgeons do 4 or 5 a day. It's a money tree. The 32,500 in just the beginning. Then you have the gallbladder surgery in 1/3 of the cases CHA CHING! Then there is the the sagging skin surgery and the breast reductions. Then there are the complications and trips to various MDs for little or no help. Then there are the revisions surgeries. Then there is the cost of the shakes and vitamins you will be on for the rest of your life because of the malabsorption. Then there are the trips to the ER from the dumping syndrome.  CHA CHING CHA CHING CHA CHING!!!

RELATED: OBESITY HELP SITE DOWN  Yippie!

The essence of the Hippocratic oath is "first do no harm". Another precept is for MD to ask others for help. I know how to fix the cause of overeating aka caloric poisoning. I have offered my program for free to physicians. They won't even look at it, Arrogance. Do you think that MDs damaging a perfectly functioning digestive system and rejecting my help is compliant with the oath they took?

The Hippocratic Oath Modern Version
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:...
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow. (They don't generally these days)
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.(Not even close in many cases.)
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug. (This is a joke. Google Doctors Are and then put a letter of the alphabet after Doctors Are and watch the Google suggestions.)
I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery. (So many of them are so arrogant and greedy that they will reject any treatment that actually can cure something and they will exploit any ailment for maximum profit) 
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. Above all, I must not play at God. (They think that the letters MD mean Me Diety)
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick. (They exploit illness for maximum profit and that is why the have cured no diseases since polio.)
I will prevent disease whenever I can but I will always look for a path to a cure for all diseases. (ROFLMAO!!)
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm. (ROFLMAO!!)
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help. (ROFLMAO!!)
Written in 1964 by Louis Lasagna, Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University, and used in many medical schools today.

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A Wake Up Call For Fatties

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Here are some medical and scientific realities.

Gastric bypass bypasses all most all of your small intestine. The small intestine is about 20 feet long. It is 20 feet long for a reason. Find out what that reason is.

A human body cannot defy the laws of physics and here are some numbers.
Your Basal Metabolic Rate is approximately you body weight X 10. If you are 300 pounds than you BMR is 3000 calories. This means that if you eat 3000 calories a day you will initially lose 3 pounds per week and as your body weight decreases your BMR decreases.  Someone weighing 300 pounds with a sedentary lifestyle requires about 5000 calories daily to maintain 300 pounds. The most women should eat is 2000 calories per day.

The reason that you cannot lose weight with the diets you have been using is mainly because you are probably cutting calories too drastically. Weight loss surgery cuts calories very drastically as well and this is not good for a myriad of reasons. As a fatling, your hunger cues are very very powerful and that is why cutting calories gradually works.

Rapid weight loss is very very dangerous and if you don't believe me, Fat Bastardo, google dangers of rapid weight loss.

Let's look at the logic and rationale:
Your stomach and intestines are not what is making you fat and keeping you fat. Too many calories are the culprit. Many people find a way to circumvent the restrictions imposed by WLS. Obesity is the result of behavior and I, Fat Bastardo, can help you with that behavior and if they don't ban me for my opinions and knowledge I would like to do it right here in this thread for all to see.

There is something wrong with the brains and minds of fat people so the idea is damaging a perfectly healthy digestive system is illogical. Fat people is a sense are addicted to food that is designed to be addictive. This show how filthy dirty capitalism is. The food and medical industry are cashing in on this epidemic and laughing all the way to the bank.

If you were to eat healthy food (something you won't be able to do after gastric surgery) at your BMR and gradually reduce the amount eventually the cravings the engineered obesogenic foods would go away. Also, you can speed up the weaning of junk food process with an old medication called Naltrexone.

You do have to take personal responsibility and you do have to come up with some altruistic reasons for doing this. Fatlings are generally not altruistic and they tend to be very self-centered which is a part of addiction. The altruistic reasons would personal and societal responsibility. Think about your loved ones. You owe it to them.

A lot of fatties like to play the tragic victim. You need to knock that off. I call it fattitude. When you do lose weight do not except praise for merely doing the right thing. Learn humility and grace. You don't deserve a pat on the back because what you will have done is nothing special or praise-worthy. Invent the cure for cancer and then you will be deserving of praise.


How to Piss Off a Bariatric Surgeon

There is a charlatan surgeon hawking WLS on a forum called Thinner Times Forum. Troll the shit out of that forum. I posed the following questions to him and I am now waiting for a reply.  Most likely I will be banned. I was banned for asking the cocksucker some questions.

For you gluttons reading this; if you opt for WLS you are an impulsive fool... and isn't poor impulse control the thing made you fat? 

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Howdy Doc,

0ver 4000 surgeries WOW! You must be rolling in the dough! Excluding weekends, that's about one surgery a day. NOTE: Some surgeons do 5 surgeries per day. While the average salary of bariatric butcher is $500,000 that is not their only financial compensation. If a bariatric butcher has his own practice he's going to rake in MILLIONS each year.

NOTE: The average cost of gastric bypass surgery is $23,000, the average cost of lap band is $14,500, and the average cost of sleeve gastrectomy surgery is $14,900. So before getting too involved, spend time determining if your insurance will cover weight loss surgery. $23,000 X 4000 = $92,000,000  This cocksucker put $92,000,000 in his pocket. Sure he had some expenses but this fucker is also making big bucks on office visits and revision surgeries not to mention the kickbacks he's getting from the medical device companies and the pharmaceutical gangsters.

I opted to lose my weight by eating less and moving more and I decided to do in part because of the risks of surgery but there are people who didn't have the support I had so they need to be forced to eat less and have their small intestines shortened so that they have a more difficult time circumventing the stomach part of it. There are fatlings who may not need the mal-absorption part because they are more disciplined so why not just give them the gastric balloon along with an incremental reduction in calories?

It has boggled my mind that presurgical preparations include VLC diets with that awful Medifast and as we know, that is a recipe for gallbladder disease and possibly ketogenic-psychosis. As you know the BMR of a 400 pounder is around 4000 calories per day and we both know that if a 400 pounder is fed 4000 calories per day they will lose about 4 pounds per week. 

What is the rationale of using a surgical procedure that results in a permanently damaged digestive system to fix a neuro-behavioral issue?  

I think that the balloon has a good chance of changing the behavior of the glutton so I think it is only fair to the gluttonous patient to try that method of intervention first.  Your thoughts?  

NOTE: Because the gastric balloon is an outpatient procedure it pays far less than WLS.

Bariatric Pal

THOSE FUCKERS BANNED ME, FAT BASTARDO FOR POSTING THE TRUTH!

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Troll these filthy medical gangsters for banning me, Fat Bastardo.  

Troll the Bariatric Pal Forum

I, Fat Bastardo, joined their forum to explain hoe I lost a ton of weight and kept it off and for that those fuck wad greedy doctor bastards banned me. They would rather sell their gastric butchery to unwitting fatlings.

When you troll those fuckers include links to articles from Gastric Bypass Kills. Destroy those murderous slime.

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Thursday, February 16, 2017

Contrave: The Good the Bad and the Ugly

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Contrave is a combination of two drugs Naltrexone and bupropion aka Wellbutrin. The good is the Naltrexone and the bad is the Wellbutrin. The ugly is the criminal medical industry who is selling this shit.

Wellbutrin is a rattlesnake of a drug. It will bite you and maybe even kill you. Here is what patients are saying about Wellbutrin.

While Wellbutrin doesn't make everyone gain weight it does cause many people to pack on the pounds.



The reason you are a glutton and don't deny it: if you are fat you are a glutton, is because of the constant rewards you get from all the junk food you eat. You have established a pattern of rewards by pleasuring yourself with food for so long that now your brain expects it. You can tough it out for 6 months and not indulge your porcine pleasures (piggish pleasures) or you can take a drug that dulls those pleasures and resets your brain. Naltrexone does that and in the case of heroin addicts and alcoholics it does it in six weeks and they the treatment is over. Adding Wellbutrin causes addiction and withdrawal from Wellbutrin is BRUTAL! It should be banned and the slime doctors who prescribe it need a month in a pillory followed by a trip to a guillotine.

Anti-depressants like Wellbutrin can trigger withdrawal symptoms like:
  • agitation.
  • anxiety.
  • confusion.
  • fatigue.
  • headache.
  • insomnia.
  • rebound depression.
  • suicide.
  • aggression.
  • violent behavior

How long does Wellbutrin withdrawal last? - Addiction Blog

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The Medical Mafia has long known that Naltrexone in an effective treatment for addiction, gluttony, and addiction. Naltrexone is used in civilized countries treat alcoholism by implanting it transdermally. It has a close to a 90% success rate. Since it stops alcohol cravings it will stop food cravings as well.

Naltrexone is a good drug with many positive side effects!

My experience with Low Dose Naltrexone By David Gluck, MD | LDN ...






















Sunday, December 18, 2016

The Frightful Truth About Weight Loss Surgery


More on the Actual Gastric Bypass Death Rate

A helpful blog reader send me the full PDF version of the study of the long term outcome of weight loss surgery in Pennsylvania which was cited in the previous blog post.

Death Rates and Causes of Death after Bariatric Surgery for Pennsylvania Residents 1994-2004. Bennet I. Omalu et. al. Arch Surg. 2007;142(10):923-928.

Typically when a surgeon tells you the mortality rate for a surgery, he tells you only the percentage of those who died within 30 days of the surgery. This study looked both at the actual deaths within 30 days after surgery and in the death rate in the years after the surgery.

As the study reports, in the 16,683 people who had weight loss surgery in Pennsylvania between 1994 and 2004, .9% died within 30 days of the surgery. That translated into 150 people.

But wait. That statistic was taken from the group as a whole. When the population is broken out by age, a much scarier statistic emerges: In the age group 55-64 1.53% were dead within 30 days, or 15 out of 1000 who had the surgery. And for the age group of those 65 and older, 3.1% died within 30 days, or 3 out of every hundred.

But that was just in the first 30 days after surgery. The study looked at time since surgery, and with each passing year the number of dead grew greater.

By one year after surgery, 2.1% of the group had died. (Twenty-one out of every thousand.) By two years, 2.9%. Then things got worse. Three years after they had had the surgery, 3.7% were dead. By four years, 4.8% and by five years, 6.4%.

The authors of this study remark that they did not follow up on the results of subsequent surgeries. But other studies have found that many people who have weight loss surgery require one or more follow up surgeries in the years that follow the initial surgery. It is likely that each subsequent surgery raises the risk of further complications and death.

Another chilling statistic emerged from the analysis of this data. In a population of the same size of the same demographic make up, the expected number of suicides would be 2. However, in this group, there were 16 suicides and an additional 14 drug overdose deaths. Most of these occurred at least one year after the surgery. The authors of the study speculate that many of the drug overdoses were probably suicides too, and flag this as a serious problem that requires more study.

What was missing in this study was one important piece of information: the weight loss achieved by the people who died. The authors assume that the high death rate is due to health conditions contracted while obese or due to weight regain. But this is only speculation. They did not review any statistics about the size of the people at death, which would have been difficult to do since only about 1/3 of these victims were autopsied.

But based on stories I have heard and cases like Mrs. Yamin's it may be premature to assume that the deaths were caused by obesity. Mrs. Yamin weighed 100 lbs at her death. Instead deaths may have been caused by long term malnutrition--i.e. starvation. Though the most common cause of death listed on death certificates after a year was cardiovascular (i.e. heart attacks) that is what kills a lot of people with anorexia and starvation. When the body is no longer absorbing nutrients the electrolytes can become dangerously unbalanced and that causes heart attack. Without independent autopsies, it is very hard to know what really happened.

Doctors don't like autopsies, because a patient who didn't have an autopsy is a patient whose family is going to have a much tougher time suing for malpractice. So if a heart stops beating, well, write it down as cardiovascular death, and since the person was once fat, who is going to challenge it?

But folks, please take these statistics seriously. And please note that the things that killed people within the first 30 days were NOT necessarily caused by obesity. Among the biggest killers were pulmonary embolism (20.7% of all early deaths)and sepsis (i.e. infection that spread through the body causing organ shut down). Sepsis killed 11.3% of those who died in the first 30 days. One out of four died of vaguely specified "therapeutic complications" which is a catchall term entered on the death certificate that included things like sepsis, bleeding, ruptured surgical wounds, etc.

One last word. Many people erroneously believe that before a doctor can perform a specific kind of surgery, that surgery must undergo the same kind of safety testing and approval process that drugs get. This is not true. Surgeons can perform any surgery they want, as long as they are licensed surgeons.

There is only one limitation on what kind of surgeries are performed: whether or not insurance companies will pay for them. Most insurers won't pay for operations that have a poor safety record--once they have enough data to know that the operation isn't safe.

But weight loss surgery is usually NOT paid for by insurers. Like plastic surgery, it is a surgery that patients pay for out of their own funds. This is one reason surgeons promote it so strongly. There are no forms for them to to fill out, no limit on what they can charge, and most importantly, no evaluating the patient's suitability for the surgery by pesky insurance review boards. All the doctor has to do is sell the patient on the operation, and the fun can begin.

So don't let yourself become a victim of a surgeon who has found a dandy way to make himself a multi-millionaire. And don't trust that the doctor who stands to make $25,000 for a few hours of work has your welfare in mind when he assures you that a surgery is no more dangerous than crossing the street. Remember, surgeons rarely track the outcome of their surgeries beyond six weeks. But as the Pennsylvania study suggests weight loss surgery keeps on killing for years after the initial surgery.

Don't let yourself become a victim.