For obese and type 2 diabetic patients, bariatric surgery changes everything not only in the weight-loss department but also in diabetes control, even elimination. In diabetes, for instance, bariatric surgery was shown to raise insulin sensitivity, decrease medication, and even prevent it. Let’s explore in this blog why bariatric surgery is the cure, for type 2 diabetes, and a new start for patients.
What is Bariatric Surgery?
The bariatric surgery is an operation and you’re going to get very obese. These are the Bariatric surgeries: Gastric Sleeve, Gastric bypass, Duodenal switch. They shut the stomach tight or flop the bowel over to limit calories consumed and absorbed. It’s weight loss that bariatric surgery is for, and now there is at least some indication that it is good for diabetes.
What Are The Relationship Between Obesity And Type 2 Diabetes
Obesity is one of the top risk factors for type 2 diabetes – a degenerative condition in which your body doesn’t make enough insulin, or uses it too sparingly to regulate your blood sugar. If you’re fat — more so belly fat — then insulin is off, your blood sugar rises and you get diabetes.
As you are fat and obese, glucose resistance and insulin resistance are out of your control. The weight loss, the insulin resistance — those are all cured by bariatric surgery and it’s a perfect cure or inversion treatment for type 2 diabetes.
How Does Diabetes Resolve During Bariatric Surgery?
That’s what bariatric surgery does in one way or another to aid the body’s control of blood sugar and its ability to become insulin-resistant.
- Weight Gain and Increased Insulin Resistance
The real transformation with bariatric surgery for diabetes is weight loss. The more patients are obese following surgery, the better the glucose is regulated. It’s because fat, and especially abdominal fat, is one of the main culprits of insulin resistance. The body will use insulin more effectively because you no longer have that body fat and therefore less blood sugar. We’ve also learned that patients who have had bariatric surgery are a lot more insulin-sensitive. The lower the insulin resistance, the lower blood sugar and the diabetes drug can be reduced or canceled. Blood sugar is nearly always drastically lowered in patients within days or weeks of surgery. - Hormonal Upsets & Type 2 Diabetes?
It’s also because bariatric surgery also makes huge hormonal swings that are so important to the control of diabetes. And one of those hormones is ghrelin (the hunger hormone). Also turned off by gastric bypass, bariatric surgery, was the production of ghrelin, which means that patients eat less and are more fuller. They’re fed healthy and fit. So, too, bariatric surgery increases incretins, hormones that regulate insulin and glucose levels. These hormones make your insulin resistant and get your pancreas to make insulin when you eat. The net outcome of these hormonal changes is a control of blood sugar and – sometimes – a significant decrease in diabetes symptoms. - Abnormal Gut Hormones and Gh Variation.
What’s cool about bariatric surgery is the effects on gut hormones. Gastrectomy, for example, and the duodenal switch turn the gut back around so food doesn’t get all the way to the small intestine. This digestion transition plays directly into gut hormones that control how glucose is processed. Patients who undergo the surgery also get their hormones secreted – glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) that elevates insulin and regulates blood sugar. These hormones lower blood sugar and sometimes even induce type 2 diabetes remission.
Bariatric Surgery and Diabetes Remission
Just as unthinkable, though, is the promise of diabetes remission after bariatric surgery. It’s the end of the line when blood sugars return to normal or near normal without taking diabetes drugs called remission. The researchers have demonstrated that bariatric surgery puts patients in diabetes remission in almost all instances.
In one case report published in the journal Obesity Surgery, for example, nearly 60 per cent of patients with gastric bypass surgery went into full diabetes remission after two years. Other people had noticed, too, and some patients went into remission after a few weeks.
There’s no cure for remission of diabetes, of course, and once they’re back in the operating room, patients have to continue their normal lives to preserve their results. But the possibility of remission gives hope to people who haven’t been able to control diabetes with medication and diet alone.
What happens After Surgery: Life Post-surgery
But although bariatric surgery can moderate diabetes, even halt its progression, it is not the cure-all. Lifestyle changes such as a balanced diet and frequent exercise are the best way to succeed in the long term. It’s often recommended that patients follow their diet and exercise plans for weight loss and health care through the long postoperative period.
Diabetes: If you’re a diabetic, ensuring your blood sugar is stable following surgery requires regular monitoring and lifestyle adjustment. But the increase in insulin sensitivity and blood sugar control that bariatric surgery brings helps patients manage diabetes and live longer.
Conclusion
Bariatric surgery controls type 2 diabetes and cures (sometimes completely) type 2 diabetes. Inducing fast weight loss, insulin resistance and hormonal changes to enhance the metabolisation of glucose, bariatric surgery keeps blood sugar in the stabilized area in most patients. Not everyone will be completely remission, but the post-surgery improvements in diabetes control are huge.We don’t just want patients to be slim, we want patients to live healthier and happier lives at Universal Medical Group. And if you’re diabetic and obese, then bariatric surgery might be just what you need to reclaim your life.
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