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Welcome to Helix Talk episode 114. I'm your co-host, Dr. Kane. And I'm Dr. Patel. And today,

we are going to talk about nutritional and pharmacologic consequences of bariatric

surgery.

The title of our episode is, What Else to Lose Besides Weight, Nutritional and Pharmacologic

Consequences of Bariatric Surgeries?

So the essence of this episode is to highlight some of the important nutritional deficiencies

that can occur, some of the pharmacologic changes that can occur post-surgery, particularly

pharmacokinatic and dynamic changes that affect these patients and will require pharmacist

interventions on coming up with dosing regimens,

as well as providing some PKPD changes related interventions.

And, you know, Dr. Patel, before you kind of proposed this episode, I didn't even really

fully realize that there are different kinds of bariatric surgeries,

and depending on the surgery, that could potentially dictate, you know, how severe the risk

of nutritional deficiencies are. So I think that there's a lot in this episode to unpack.

Yeah, now that's absolutely right. And the world of bariatric surgery is evolving. So we have

different type of bariatric surgeries, but at the same time,

the research behind what surgery can cause, what type of risk and what type of pharmacologic

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