Welcome back to the Diet Doctor podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Brett Schur. Today we're talking

about all things weight loss with a pretty strong focus on bariatric surgery and weight loss

surgery and talking about where it fits in into the scheme of weight loss interventions.

We'll talk about lifestyle, of course, nutrition, exercise, behavior modifications.

We're going to talk about medications and their use, and we're going to focus on weight loss

surgery. We're going to hear from two expert surgeons, as well as a physician assistant expert

who deals more with the patients on a one-on-one basis in some of the lifestyle and sort of

emotional and behavioral

aspects. Now, weight loss surgery has really changed quite a bit in my years as a physician.

And as you'll hear me talk in the beginning, it was a huge procedure with huge risks,

and it really has come down quite a bit. But let's be honest, it's still an invasive procedure.

It's still mostly an

irreversible procedure. So if you're going to go through with that, you want to make sure

you've gone through the process that you're psychologically ready, that your lifestyle is

ready to adjust to the surgery and continue your success afterwards. And you want to make sure

you're working with a team that

focuses in a multidisciplinary way to help you through the whole process. So I hope you

enjoy this compilation between Dr. Ortiz, Dr. Sweeney, and physician assistant Burridge, each with

their own perspective, each with their own background and expertise,

but all of them motivated and dedicated and passionate about helping people achieve safe and healthy weight loss.

Here's Dr. Ariel Ortiz.

Now, Dr. Ortiz really isn't a way a pioneer of weight loss surgery. He's been doing it

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