Weight Loss Doctor Blog

Achieving a healthy weight is important to maintaining your overall health and avoiding serious complications in the long run. But attaining this healthy weight can be difficult, especially if you're struggling with losing a significant amount of weight. So if you are looking for help and want to explore your weight loss options consider reaching out to our Arcadia and Los Angeles, CA-based gastroenterologist Dr. Donald Portocarrero of Gastrointestinal & Non-Surgical Weight Loss Solutions.

Non-Surgical Weight Loss Options

One of these important weight loss treatment options is called endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG), or gastric sleeve.

The procedure is non-surgical because it involves no cutting as it's performed endoscopically. Employing a device that's inserted through the throat and into the stomach, can be used to suture it to make it smaller.

How It Works

A gastric sleeve helps in different ways, primarily, it reduces the size of your stomach, which makes you feel full faster than before. This should cause you to consume smaller portions and assist in your weight loss journey.

Secondly, your stomach produces a hormone that sends hunger signals, and decreasing the size of the stomach can decrease the amount of this hormone that's produced.

Benefits

The most obvious benefit is that the procedure can lead to significant weight loss.

A gastric sleeve also has benefits over other procedures that produce similar results. It is minimally invasive and non-surgical, so it can reduce the risk of complications and also results in a faster recovery.

But just like these other weight loss procedures the process still requires a commitment to healthy lifestyles going forward to ensure long-lasting success.

So with a combination of these lifestyle changes a gastric sleeve can greatly improve your health and reduce your risk for serious problems like heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, and diabetes.

Weight Loss Treatment in Arcadia & Los Angeles, CA

If you want to explore your weight loss treatment options and live in Arcadia & Los Angeles, CA, you can schedule a consultation with Dr. Portocarrero of Gastrointestinal & Non-Surgical Weight Loss Solutions by dialing (626) 461-5408.