Comments on: How Dangerous is Bariatric Surgery? http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/11/28/how-dangerous-is-bariatric-surgery/ Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method, the Shangri-La Diet, etc. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:48:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Chris http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/11/28/how-dangerous-is-bariatric-surgery/#comment-80369 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:23:15 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/11/28/how-dangerous-is-bariatric-surgery/#comment-80369 It's an interesting experiment, but not one I like to see carried out on humans. Bariatric surgery was developed as a weight-loss measure for the extremely obese, and of course weight loss typically improves outcomes for diabetics, even leading to remission in some cases. Weirdly, the surgery seems also to have an anti-diabetic effect independent of weight loss, and there have been some experiments performing operations on non-obese diabetics. In other words, they're on bridge of the UFO starcruiser, they have only a vague notion of what any of the buttons mean, but they find that pressing a certain pattern of buttons has certain desirable effects. As well as certain effects they don't know about or don't understand. It’s an interesting experiment, but not one I like to see carried out on humans. Bariatric surgery was developed as a weight-loss measure for the extremely obese, and of course weight loss typically improves outcomes for diabetics, even leading to remission in some cases. Weirdly, the surgery seems also to have an anti-diabetic effect independent of weight loss, and there have been some experiments performing operations on non-obese diabetics.

In other words, they’re on bridge of the UFO starcruiser, they have only a vague notion of what any of the buttons mean, but they find that pressing a certain pattern of buttons has certain desirable effects. As well as certain effects they don’t know about or don’t understand.

]]> by: seth http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/11/28/how-dangerous-is-bariatric-surgery/#comment-79717 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:39:07 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/11/28/how-dangerous-is-bariatric-surgery/#comment-79717 I agree. If it were effective in a big way surely the long-term death rate would be lower than that of a similar unoperated group. I agree. If it were effective in a big way surely the long-term death rate would be lower than that of a similar unoperated group.

]]> by: Chris http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/11/28/how-dangerous-is-bariatric-surgery/#comment-79507 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:15:12 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/11/28/how-dangerous-is-bariatric-surgery/#comment-79507 Ah, so not the miracle cure for diabetes it's been held up as. Ah, so not the miracle cure for diabetes it’s been held up as.

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