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Improve your quality of life with Non-surgical Weight Loss

January 12, 2023

Since the beginning of 20th century, the overall obesity (overweight) related health conditions and co-morbidities, have been increasing gradually. There is a global need for safe and effective treatment of this disease to improve quality of life. At present treatment modalities for overweight patients include lifestyle modifications, non-surgical & surgical procedures. Comparatively non-surgical procedures like intragastric balloon surgery (IBS), Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) provide significant benefits to several individuals.

How non-surgical ways improve your quality of life?

There are many ways that losing weight can improve your quality of life. Here are some:

  1. Lowers the risk of life-threatening diseases: With non-surgical weight loss, many lifestyle disorders can be resolved like heart disease, respiratory disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis (joint pain), obstructive sleep apnea, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
  2. Increases your energy and stamina: By losing weight you find it easier to do more work without losing focus or feeling tired.
  3. Enhances reproductive function: Weight loss can lead to greater chance of conceiving in PCOS patients, decreases complications during pregnancy and increases your libido.
  4. Diminishes your food cravings: Since the non-surgical weight loss procedure creates a feeling of fullness, you no longer have the desire to eat more than the required.Improves mental health: By losing weight you can improve your mental health in terms of having a positive outlook, better memory, emotional stability and social functioning.
  5. Creates a positive body image: Weight loss improves your body image by reduction in belly bulge, and sizes of other visible body parts.

Indications

Non-surgical procedures are indicated in the following situations like

  • In patients who have attempted but failed or not responded well to the diet and medicinal therapy
  • If your body mass index lies between 30-40kg/m2
  • No prior gastric surgeries.

Patients struggling with traditional weight loss methods can go for non-surgical cum minimally invasive procedures that are helpful in reducing weight in a limited time. Intragastric balloon surgery and endoscopic sleeve gastroplastly are the two procedures currently beneficial to several individuals.

Non-surgical procedures that help in weight loss:

Intragastric balloon surgery (IBS):

IBS involves placing of soft saline- (or) air-filled balloon into the stomach using endoscopy unit as an outpatient procedure. The balloon reduces the stomach capacity to hold food, resulting in reduced food intake.

Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG):

ESG is a new minimally invasive procedure, which alters the size of the stomach using endoscopic suturing device. It promotes the feeling of fullness and restricts one’s eating capacity.

References:

  1. Intragastric balloon –statpearls-NCBI Bookshelf
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK578184/  
  2. Abu Dayyeh BK, Bazerbachi F, Vargas EJ, et al. Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty for treatment of class 1 and 2 obesity (MERIT): a prospective, multicentre, randomised trial. Lancet. 2022 Aug 6;400(10350):441-451. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35908555/
  3. Endoscopic sleeve Gastroplasty- Johns Hopkins Medicine.
    https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/endoscopic-sleeve-gastroplasty

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