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New surgery could cure diabetes without weight loss

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    Dr. David Samadi explains medical breakthrough

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That's a great news talk to you about right now -- potential about a possible new breakthrough for some diabetics.

A surgery showing promise to potentially cure the disease without losing weight.

Doctor Davis -- body of course it's -- chief of the division.

Of robotics in Mount Sinai Medical Center a very good doctor here in New York City.

And a member of the fox these medical eighteenth and we -- glad to have you let's talk about this possible breakthrough.

That that rules out overweight and obesity and overweight in diabetics in gets right to the core of curing diabetes.

Yep so -- this is actually very exciting and it in his -- when I was coming here and I was reading about this I was getting excited about this and you know we we you -- -- takes a salute.

Longer to get unpleasant about it in that yes that happened back there right look what's happening is.

We know that obesity is on the rise in the country about a third of the country suffering -- -- -- city.

10% -- US is suffering from diabetes.

As doctors we always thought that you know first you become obese and then that is silly because resistance -- will be -- you get diabetes that's the way.

We thought about this concern or to take care of diabetes obviously we have to give you -- so then what the first rule is to get rid of the way.

And that's why all of these gastric bypass.

Penalty -- centers in the last ten it decade has become very popular.

The lap that's the gastric bypass right now there's a new way according to doctor -- from corn now.

His coming up with a really nice way of doing this that on some of these patients that are not morbid obese they're not really heavy.

There is no reason to really cut down or put staples on the stomach we leave that alone but we still go it and do the bypass meaning that the food.

Going from stomach is so they're going to the first part of the small intestine called to a -- and then go to do June the second part.

Now go straight to it so what that does that bypass surgery which is special what it does this send a signal to the brain saying that wait a second there's too much sugar -- -- Because their liver to shut down to sugar production and as a result you can take care of diabetes so now what we're seeing is.

By doing this limited number of surgeries -- me just say that it's limited number of operations -- he's done.

You can see -- meeting the hospital within two weeks we've normal sugar and it's really big news.

-- critics of this American diabetic association has been saying that this really doesn't work well.

And -- why would they say that what part of it is because -- care right now only pays for gastric bypass.

Full body mass index up over 35 C a dog or you're gonna take it there -- Medicare and money.

Well laws that part of the issue I think that's maybe part of it I don't get it to the politics -- what they wanna see more data.

Before they -- -- approve this and I think that this doctor is up to something.

-- we're gonna see some really good outcome they have done the same kind of like research in Toronto in Minnesota they have come with a really good -- so I personally.

I'm excited about this I can say that because you know why a lot of these guys are suffering.

I don't have the graphics for a vote.

It did the doctors very shy.

But this is this is -- -- grab I don't know if you guys can get this but he actually shows how.

The bypass surgery typically operates -- good this activity disbarment -- short this bypass is called one YOK so.

This food where I was gonna finish at -- anyway based you're -- take it from there to the -- Find it was selling but he got to hit it just really fantastic -- isn't -- great topic out and week you're from EA team that's why.

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