Welcome to the exam room brought to you by the Physicians Committee. Thousands of Americans

are having weight loss surgery every single year and for many of them the weight comes

off but it goes right back on following the surgery. So could the solution be a plant-based

diet? Well some people say no it isn't possible for them to adopt a plant-based diet. Well

that's actually untrue they can. We're going to learn how. Today our own weight loss champion

Chuck Carroll is getting examined himself at the Barnard Medical Center. Maybe there's

some things he needs to improve on? I don't know. We'll find out. He'll be sharing his

results on the show. Other post-op patients can learn so much from this. Here's Chuck.

Thank you Dr. Barnard. I am the weight loss champion Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for

tuning in to the exam room podcast giving us a download today. So good to be back behind

the microphone man I missed this. The show today very personal for me. It's all about going

vegan following weight loss surgery. Once you have weight loss surgery like I did, you're

wired differently. You quite literally get rewired your intestines due once they go in and

they perform these bariatric procedures whether it's the ruin. Why? Which I had or a gastric

sleeve. Whatever the case may be the whole idea is you're going to get re-rounded so you

can lose that weight but that leads to a couple of issues that you need to monitor moving

forward and malabsorption of vitamins and minerals and nutrients. That is chief among them.

So if you do a Google search out there and try to find out whether or not it's a good idea to go

plant-based following weight loss surgery to a Google search, you're not really going to come up with

a whole lot of information. So I decided to use myself as a guinea pig. I went upstairs to the

Barnard Medical Center and I had my blood screened for everything vitamins A to Z all the soup

to nuts. If anything was in my blood, if any of my levels were a miss, we found out about it.

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