They want to slice and dice your diabetes away.
No, I’m not talking about some fancy new juicer or food processor. I’m talking about an insane new plan to sell deadly gastric bypass surgery to diabetics.
For years I’ve been warning you that gastric bypass — which surgically shrinks the size of your stomach — was killing countless patients around the world. Some of them were dead before their incisions ever healed.
Now a research team is encouraging diabetics to line up for the gruesome procedure, claiming it controls the disease even better than diet and exercise.
But, of course, that’s only part of the story.
This new recommendation is part of a ploy by one of the richest medical companies in the world to make its next billion — even at your expense. And they’re trying to sweep under the rug a forgotten, 10-year-old study could that proves gastric bypass could be a death sentence for any diabetic who chooses it.
But that’s exactly what researchers got when they asked a few dozen obese patients with diabetes to get either gastric bypass surgery or a laparoscopic band (which ties off part of your stomach).
Forty percent of patients who got gastric bypass saw their diabetes go into remission, compared to 29 percent who got the band. In other words, this potentially deadly surgery failed for most of the people who tried it.
But, shockingly, that doesn’t seem to be slowing the momentum of gastric bypass as a diabetes treatment one bit.
Groups like the American Diabetes Association are already recommending gastric bypass for type 2 diabetes. And Dr. Anita Courcoulas from the University of Pittsburgh, the study’s lead author, claims gastric bypass is more effective at controlling diabetes than diet and exercise.
That’s a dangerous and misleading claim that could put countless, desperate diabetics right in harm’s way. But the truth is, it’s exactly what Dr. Courcoulas and plenty of other docs like her are paid to say.
Because while mainstream media outlets around the world ran with the story about Dr. Courcoulas’ research, they conveniently forgot to report that she’s a paid consultant for Ethicon (they should start calling themselves Ethics-less).
That’s a division of Johnson & Johnson that makes the medical equipment used in gastric bypass surgery. Dr. Michael Gagner, a Florida International University professor who reviewed the study for the Journal of the American Medical Association, has also taken cash from Ethicon.
In fact, the company dumped $3.2 million into funding doctor talks and research to try and expand the use of gastric bypass so diabetics can get their insurance to cover it.
And Ethicon isn’t just trying to get rich off diabetics’ suffering. The company is actually ignoring a terrifying 10-year-old study that discovered what really happens to your blood sugar when you get gastric bypass.
You see, a decade ago researchers from two major universities and the Joslin Diabetes Center in Massachusetts found that people who undergo gastric bypass surgery are at risk of sudden, severe and potentially deadly hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
Researchers found that the surgery causes a dangerous “overproduction of insulin” that drives your blood sugar to risky, low levels and can cause everything from sudden blackouts to a rapid heart rate.
Three of the people in the study needed to have all or parts of their pancreases removed to stop the constant flood of insulin that would have killed them. And you can be certain that the same thing is going to happen to diabetics who now get talked into a gastric bypass.
Of course, it doesn’t have to be low blood sugar that kills you after the surgery. Gastric bypass can trigger everything from liver disease to a total shutdown of your immune system. In fact, one out of every 50 people who get the surgery are dead within a month.
People like Dave Weindel, who died three weeks after his stomach was reduced to the size of a chicken egg… or Ron Malone, who died after three attempts to fix a botched gastric bypass.
If you’re looking to control your blood sugar, you have plenty of better options — like low-carb diets and supplements like berberine — that are all safer and more effective than gastric bypass. Because even if this gruesome surgery takes away your diabetes, you may be left with something 1,000 times worse.
“Weight-loss surgery better than diet and exercise in treating type 2 diabetes, study finds” Shirley S. Wang, July 1, 2015, The Wall Street Journal, wsj.com
“Call to make bariatric surgery as common as coronary bypass” Marlene Busko, Medscape, July 2, 2015, Medscape.com
“Ethicon launches global effort to boost surgery for obesity” Barrett J. Brunsman, July 1, 2015, Cincinnati Business Courier, bizjournals.com
