Can gastric bypass surgery treat illness aside from obesity?

Can gastric bypass surgery treat illness aside from obesity?

One of the biggest benefits of gastric bypass surgery is the treatment of diabetes. They have found, with several research projects, that by bypassing the stomach into the duodenum, patients lose their diabetes, decrease the amount of medications they're taking, decrease the insulin they're having, almost immediately after surgery. And within 30 days after surgery, I would say up to 90% of the patients are cured of their diabetes. So gastric bypass surgery definitely treats other diseases. It also helps with joint problems. Because your joints are being worn out very quickly when you're overweight, by losing the weight you stop that process from going forward, although it doesn't cure the damage that was already there. Hypertension, high blood pressure caused by being overweight also is resolved once your weight comes down. And I've found patients, once they lose between 30 and 50 pounds and maybe be 100, 200 pounds overweight, don't need their hypertensive medications anymore, and their blood pressure is normalized.