Gastric Sleeve Surgery

These days, Gastric Sleeve Surgery is the most commonly performed bariatric surgery around the world, because of its excellent results and lower impact on the nutrient absorption in the human body. Gastric Sleeve Surgery consists in removing around 80% of the gastric tissue, reducing gastric capacity from around 1lt volume, to only around 100ml; that means, you will be satisfied by eating only around 10% of what you normally can eat. Gastric Sleeve surgery also helps to produce less Ghrelin, “the hunger hormone”, this will help the body to eat less feeling satisfied and without craving new food ingesture soon. Gastric Sleeve Surgery can help you lose around 75% of excess weight –results might vary for each patient. If you change habits and include physical activity in your everyday life, you will be able to reach your ideal weight! Keep in mind, Gastric Sleeve Surgery is not a reversible procedure, the good news is that the effect is also permanent.

After gastric Sleeve Surgery, it is recommended to rest for 1 to 2 weeks before reinitiating your work.

Cardiovascular exercise can be resumed 3 weeks after the surgery.

It is recommended to resume weight lifting activities (gym) at the 3rd month after the surgery.