Satiety-controlling implant: the end of obesity?
Sometimes “a priori” suggests that certain facts are proven when this is not the case. Unfounded and erroneous one of these misconceptions consists in saying that by eating less, the stomach will tend to shrink naturally. And, gradually, by doing so, the appetite will decrease and, with it, the excess of additional weight .. fly away.
Is the stomach an extensible organ that can expand and shrink at will? And if not, how to reduce your own appetite? How to make the stomach eatlessfood?
Challenging misconceptions
The resting capacity of the stomach is 50ml. It can go up to 1000ml or even up to 4000ml during meals if they are extremely hearty. Thus, it is, at least, twenty times its original size that this organ can use to guarantee an ideal digestion afterwards. By secreting various hormones and digestive juices, it ensures the formation of the food bolus, between one to four liters of solid and liquid elements. Ingested food that arrives in the stomach is broken down into particles, or chymes, which are released into the small intestine. Subsequently, it is the latter who takes over and the digestive process continues.
Thus, the fact of imagining that the stomach zone loses its volume with the decrease in appetite findsno foundation. Indeed, the very structure of the stomach does not allow it to decrease in volume. On the other hand, it is stretchable and, when taking meals, it naturally increases its capacity.
However, this does not mean that eating less is reducing it becauseonly bariatric surgery allows this. On the other hand, it is a certain fact, it is that the stomach of obese peopleexpands abnormally over timein order to contain the enormous amount of food absorbed. In this case, and only in this one, the “hyperphages” manage to restore their stomach to their original size.
And if the stomach does not shrink by itself, an American review has just updated thanks to a study, a principle that reduces its feeling of hunger: reducing its food ration for four weeks restricts the feeling of hunger. The explanation is essentially hormonal and good to know.
The implant: a (very) promising solution
It is therefore full of certainties concerning the behavior of the digestive area, that the company EnteroMedics has recently marketed an implant against obesity. This “makes the stomach believe” that it is filled and reassured by acting on the brain. The Maestro Rechargeable System (MRS) thus places the gastric band in the closet.
It was in January 2015 that the FDA (Food and Drug Administration or US Drug Authority) allowed the sale of this new technology that fills hope for overweight people. By acting on the nerves that control appetite, the SRM will regulate patients with, for example, diabetes. In fact, EnteroMedics specifically targets diabetics over the age of eighteen with a BMI (Body Mass Index) between 35 and 45 and who have not been able to lose weight in previous years.
For information, a pill will soon be marketed on the market. It has already been tested on mice but the Salk Institute’s Gene laboratory is still asking for a few months of study and control. In the meantime, these are electrodes, present in the abdomen, that will manage the feeling of hunger by sending impulses to the pneumogastric nerve or vagus nerve that controls, among other things, the feeling of satiety.
Admittedly, all this is happening in the United States but will soon pour in France. To be continued …
Stephen Paul is the lead author and founder of My Health Sponsor. Holder of a diploma in health and well-being coaching with more than 200 articles in the field of health, he makes it a point of honor to offer advice based on reliable information, based on scientific research, and verified by health professionals.