Weight Loss Management in Louisville, KY

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♪ Obesity is a head-to-toe disease. There's not an organ system or body part that's not affected. There are common comorbid diagnoses that we see from diabetes to high blood pressure and heart disease, sleep apnea, these are the things we think about, but also joint pain, liver disease, and then we see increased risk of cancer. Weight loss surgery is a tool.

I always tell patients it's a very powerful tool. It's something that, when used in combination with increasing their exercise and improving their lifestyle that they can see tremendous results using the surgery as an adjunct to their weight loss. When a patient comes to us, there is a thorough workup that we want to do, and then we have a number of classes that we have for patients where we do education and we're teaching them everything from what to eat but then also we're instructing them how to exercise and how to get movement back in their life so that when the surgery happens, patients have good fundamental footing to start off on so that they can have the most success possible.

Patients often don't realize the things that they give up as they're gaining weight. It's only after that they lose 50, 75, 100, or 100-plus pounds that they can come back in and say, "You know, I can get down on the floor and I can play with my kids." You know, their confidence level comes back. They'll just enjoy life more.

For myself, as a physician, it's one of the great joys that I get.