The Hidden Costs of Bariatric Surgery

The Hidden Costs of Bariatric Surgery

Weight regain after bariatric surgery can have devastating psychological effects. How Sustainable Is the Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery? I explore that issue in my video of the same name. Most gastric bypass patients end up regaining some of the fat they lose by...
Is Surgery Necessary to Reverse Diabetes?

Is Surgery Necessary to Reverse Diabetes?

Losing weight without rearranging your gastrointestinal anatomy carries advantages beyond just the lack of surgical risk. The surgical community objects to the characterization of bariatric surgery as internal jaw wiring and cutting into healthy organs just to...
Top 10 NutritionFacts.org Videos of 2025

Top 10 NutritionFacts.org Videos of 2025

We create more than a hundred new videos every year. They are the culmination of countless hours of research. We comb through tens of thousands of scientific papers from the peer-reviewed medical literature so busy people like you don’t have to. In 2025, I covered a...
Bariatric Surgery: Risks in the OR and Beyond

Bariatric Surgery: Risks in the OR and Beyond

The extent of risk from bariatric weight-loss surgery may depend on the skill of the surgeon. After sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, the third most common bariatric procedure is a revision to fix a previous bariatric procedure, as you can see below and...
Bariatric Weight-Loss Surgery and Mortality

Bariatric Weight-Loss Surgery and Mortality

Today, death rates after weight-loss surgery are considered to be “very low,” occurring in perhaps 1 in 300 to 1 in 500 patients on average. The treatment of obesity has long been stained by the snake-oil swindling of profiteers, hustlers, and quacks. Even the modern...