Gastric Bypass Surgery – Roux-en-Y

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Gastric Bypass Surgery, specifically the Roux-en-Y procedure, makes the stomach smaller and allows food to bypass part of the small intestine. You will feel full more quickly than when your stomach was its original size, which reduces the amount of food you eat and thus the calories consumed.
Bypassing part of the intestine also results in fewer calories being absorbed. This leads to significant and lasting weight loss.
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What is the Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery?
How the Procedure Works
Gastric Bypass Surgery – Roux-en-Y (RNY) Animation Video
What is the Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery?
The most common form of this weight loss surgery is the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RNY). To understand how it works, it is helpful to look at normal digestion:
In normal digestion, food passes through the stomach and enters the small intestine, where most of the nutrients and calories are absorbed. It then passes into the large intestine (colon), and the remaining waste is eventually excreted.
How the Procedure Works
In a Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, the stomach is made smaller by creating a small pouch at the top of the stomach using surgical staples or a plastic band. The smaller stomach is connected directly to the middle portion of the small intestine (jejunum), bypassing the rest of the stomach and the upper portion of the small intestine (duodenum).
This procedure can be performed in two ways:
- Laparoscopic Approach: Making small incisions and using small instruments and a camera to guide the surgery (minimally invasive).
- Open Procedure: Making a large incision in the abdomen (less common today).
Gastric Bypass Surgery – Roux-en-Y (RNY) Animation Video
Learn more from NIDDK about healthy lifestyle and nutrition.
Also read: Complete Guide To Bariatric Surgery.

Gastric Bypass Roux-en-Y Benefits*

Restrictive and bypassing part of the intestine limits calorie absorption
60% to 84% Type 2 Diabetes Controlled
76% Obstructive Sleep Apnea Resolved

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I did the Gastric Bypass. I am off all medication except the pill that slows my heart down for Afib.
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"Within the next few months, I no longer was considered borderline diabetic, had HBP, had sleep apnea and was on half of the medications I was taking before my surgery.*
Today, a year and 1 month later, I am down to my goal weight which flucuates between 135-140. My BMI is 22.6 and I am so much healthier than I have been in many, many years.
I look and feel fantastic, and have to thank everyone, from the folks at BeLiteWeight to the surgeon's office for helping me to achieve this goal."
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Gastric Bypass Surgery – Roux-en-Y

What is the Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery?

How the Procedure Works