{"id":5350,"date":"2015-01-12T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/?p=5350"},"modified":"2021-12-08T15:07:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T23:07:36","slug":"gastric-sleeve-surgery-operation-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/gastric-sleeve-surgery-operation-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Gastric Sleeve Surgery Operation Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Gastric sleeve surgery has changed countless lives for the better. The surgery is known for its ability to help people lose weight, but it actually does much, much more&#8211;it can help lower cholesterol, control Type 2 diabetes, and lower blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">But how does the procedure actually work? Keep reading to find out.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It&#8217;s important to mention that gastric sleeve surgery is a restrictive procedure, which limits the amount of food you can eat by reducing the size of your stomach.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IhW-7ANmSgI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The surgery is considered minimally invasive. Your doctor will gain access to your abdomen through a series of very small incisions. Your doctor will then place small, pen-shaped devices called trocars into the incisions. The trocars allow your doctor to insert surgical instruments into your abdomen.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Once your surgeon can see your stomach, decisions can be made about how to best remove a portion of your stomach and replace it with a thin, vertical sleeve. The sleeve can hold about 50 to 150 milliliters of food, which is a portion about the same size as a banana.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Once the procedure is complete, your stomach will be able to hold about one-tenth of the amount of food it could before you had the procedure done.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Recovery from gastric sleeve surgery typically takes a few weeks to a few months. But once you are healed, you&#8217;ll be that much closer to living a lighter, healthier life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gastric sleeve surgery has changed countless lives for the better. The surgery is known for its ability to help people lose weight, but it actually does much, much more&#8211;it can help lower cholesterol, control Type 2 diabetes, and lower blood pressure. But how does the procedure actually work? Keep reading to find out. It&#8217;s important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[886,8,887],"class_list":["post-5350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gastric-sleeve-surgery","tag-gastric-sleeve-surgery-process","tag-vertical-sleeve-gastrectomy","tag-weight-loss-procedures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5354,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions\/5354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliteweight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}