There are three ways that bariatric surgery can help you lose weight:

• Limiting the amount of food you eat by making your stomach smaller
• Reducing how many calories your body absorbs after you eat
• Changing the way your hormones signal that you are hungry

Discover more about our weight loss surgery options.

Losing weight can improve your overall health and quality of life. Being overweight or obese makes it harder to participate in daily activities. It can also make some health conditions, such as heart disease or diabetes worse and lead to other chronic health conditions.

Other issues that obese patients may suffer from include:

• Arthritis or joint disease
• Cancer
• GERD (acid reflux)
• High blood pressure
• Kidney disease
• Obstructive sleep apnea

Each year, our surgeons have performed thousands of minimally invasive bariatric surgery procedures featuring smaller incisions (minimally invasive). We use the latest technology and techniques for effective and safe results with advanced minimally invasive surgery.

• Less pain
• Quicker recovery
• Smaller scars
• Very low rate of complications

Anyone can get weight loss surgery, but it is not the right choice for everyone who needs to lose weight. In general, we use these guidelines to determine eligibility for bariatric surgery.

• Body mass index (BMI) is 40 or more
• BMI is 35 or more and you have other significant medical conditions
• You have not lost weight on physician-guided diet and exercise plans
• You are 18 or older
• You are 15-17 (as part of our Adolescent Weight Loss Surgery program with parental consent)