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Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast. Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level. Dr. Eric Berg.

So let's discuss bariatric surgery in relationship to vitamin deficiencies.

So many people are getting the surgery and seeing benefit with their diabetes.

Now why does it help diabetes?

Well, there are two ways to increase insulin.

One is by consuming a lot of carbohydrates, but the other is by consuming

food in general, because every time you eat, you trigger insulin through a hormone in the small

intestine called GIP, gastric inhibitory peptide. So you trigger this hormone, which then increases insulin. So there's

something in your small intestine that has the ability to trigger insulin, even if you're not

consuming insulin. It's just food in general. So when they do surgery to your small intestine,

you have a less ability to trigger insulin in general, and your

insulin goes down. Now, is that healthy? On one hand, it's healthy because it's going to reduce

insulin, but on the other, you're artificially altering that part of your body, and it comes

with a package. Because now we have an altered digestive system

that it's more difficult to fulfill the nutrient requirements and we're going to have less

absorptive surface of your digestive system to pull in those nutrients. The most common vitamin

and mineral deficiencies with gastric bypass would be vitamin B1, B12,

vitamin E, vitamin D, and copper. Okay, these are the most common. And then they can lead to all

sorts of additional symptoms. This could be with your skin, heart. This could be bone pain, calcium metabolism,

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