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Hey guys, in this video we're going to talk about the nutritional deficiencies from gastric

bypass. Now when they do gastric bypass they bring your stomach lining or surface area down to

10% of what it should be. So they're by automatically putting you in a situation where you're not

absorbing as many nutrients, not just from the stomach but from the small intestine. So we're going

to go through and just talk about that, but you know they talk about gastric bypass is a healthy

thing because they're going to go off the calorie reduction, but unfortunately it comes

with a package. Number one, your calcium levels are going to usually be low and the problem with

that is that if you don't have enough acid in your stomach because you're only operating off

of a smaller pouch then it's really hard to absorb calcium, especially any type of calcium carbonate.

It's almost impossible. So you might have to get this in an ion form and electrolyte powder that

dissolves, but the point is that calcium needs an acid stomach to be absorbed, okay? Number two,

iron deficiencies. Well the same thing, the pH in the stomach should be acid to absorb some of

the bigger minerals, iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium, things like that. So when you're deficient

in iron you get brittle nails. You also get what's called pica, which is craving ice or clay or

ashes or you know some other you know something of the earth you start liking to eat dirt.

So that's an iron deficiency, not everyone gets that, but that could happen and then decrease

zinc in the body or other trace minerals. So zinc is a trace mineral and so are other minerals

like selenium and iodine and manganese and all these trace minerals are needed to

build the enzyme structures to digest protein and have all sorts of chemical reactions in the body,

but specifically to build body proteins. That's like a real important thing. So if we don't have

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