Modern bareatric surgery actually was born in the nineteenth century out of a the same kinds of procedures, but for a totally different purpose. A guy named caesar ru came up with a surgical technique called the ru and y and a. He figured out how to bipass itand connect your stomach to a different part of your intestine so you would still have functioning parts. And that was where the idea of a of gastric by past surgery came from.
Bariatric surgery can also be called weight loss surgery. Some people think it's a highly underused tool to fight obesity. Others think it's a shortcut. We discuss all the ins and outs in this week's episode.
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