Bariatric surgery helps people with severe obesity lose a lot of weight and improve their health.
Two common types of bariatric surgery are lap band surgery and gastric bypass surgery.
Lap band surgery places a band around the top of the stomach to create a very small pouch that can hold only a small amount of food.
Gastric bypass surgery, which reduces the size of the stomach, could cause hormonal changes and lower the number of nutrients that are absorbed from food.
This Health & Medicine Lab video talks about another type of weight loss surgery (gastric balloon surgery).
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