Obesity Surgery San Antonio, Texas at San Antonio Weight Loss Center.

If you are extremely overweight, obesity surgery may be the solution you need for better health and well-being. Dr. Jorge Rincon in San Antonio, Texas offers gastric bypass surgery to those wishing to overcome obesity and its associated health risks. If you have made the decision to save your health and improve your life, then obesity surgery is the right direction.

When you eat food, it travels down a tube located between your mouth and stomach, called the esophagus. After traveling through your esophagus and stomach, the food travels through the intestines where much of it is absorbed. Gastric bypass surgery works in two ways: it limits the amount of food patients can eat at one time, and it limits the amount of food that can be absorbed at one time. In order to limit the amount of food consumed at one time, doctors reduce the size of the stomach by creating a smaller stomach pouch. In order to limit the amount of food absorbed, doctors set up the digestive system so that food can actually bypass parts of the intestine. Because food passes through a shorter length of intestine, less is absorbed. Gastric bypass surgery has been extremely successful in allowing many patients to lose weight, and to maintain a healthier lifestyle. 

Conditions associated with obesity and morbid obesity include:

- Migraines

- Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

- Metabolic Syndrome

- Type II Diabetes Mellitus

- Obstructive Sleep Apnea

- Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

- Hypertension

- Asthma

- Gout

- Degenerative Joint Disease

- Stress Urinary Incontinence

With Dr. Rincon at San Antonio Weight Loss Center in San Antonio, Texas, obesity surgery can help to change your life and aid in preventing the onset of high blood pressure and diabetes. Call for your consultation today.