Yes, with healthy lifestyle changes.
Sleeve gastrectomy, also known as the gastric sleeve, in the field of metabolic and bariatric surgery, is the top weight-loss procedure worldwide. Patients quite understandably get overwhelmed with dread when they learn that the procedure removes up to 80% of the stomach. So, the first question most patients ask is whether they will get to live a “normal” life after a stomach reduction. Medically speaking, a surgery that changes the entire biological definition of “normal” is a new one. Instead of reverting to the same eating habits that led to your severe obesity, you will be graduating to a very optimized, metabolically healthy lifestyle that supports your active engagement with the world even more than before.
At Lin Health Europe Clinic, we see bariatric surgery as a means of profound metabolic reset rather than the last step. For our international patients who come to Turkey, we explain that living normally after surgery means that one is no longer physically and mentally weighed down by morbid obesity. Our clinic is a leading institution for advanced intervention in metabolism. Here, you get a thorough level of medical care where every step made towards behavioral and nutritional changes, which are lifelong, is prepared for in great detail so that you remain strong in your new, joyful reality.
Changing the Meaning of “Normal” Eating Habits
The biggest and most lasting effect of your new life will be the limitation on the very volume of your meals. With your new stomach being such a small size and shape, similar to that of a banana, you just won’t be able to eat large quantities at one go anymore.
Clinical Reality: Trying to have a regular-sized, restaurant meal portion is a great way to get very uncomfortable, nauseous, or you might even vomit.
Living, not just surviving as a result of the surgery, mandates that you should be eating “micro-portions“. At Lin Health Europe Clinic, the dietitians of Turkey give patients a lesson on how to first eat dense proteins, then vegetables, and make sure each bite is thoroughly chewed until it’s like a drink. It is certain that you shall be able to eat almost any kind of food after some time, but be aware that your portion sizes will remain tiny after surgery. For a bariatric patient who has been successful and is committed, the feeling of being satisfied after merely half a chicken breast and a few bites of broccoli is a very empowering new normal.
Getting Rid of Metabolic Disease
When we talk about a “normal” life, we actually mean a life free from problems that you used to have. Many people who plan to have a bariatric surgery, or simply have it done, live with the thought that daily injections of insulin, using CPAP machines for sleep apnea, or suffering from chronic pain in different joints will be their gladiator “normal”.
A gastric sleeve is an extraordinary metabolic tool. By it’s doing a great work of shedding your body weight and reshaping your gut hormones, it greatly helps to push type 2 diabetes into a state of complete remission, and often the blood pressure is also restored to normal without medications. Our clinic specialists will explain to you that the primary objective of your stomach reduction in Istanbul is to get you off the medications and the limitations of chronic, obesity-related diseases for good, which pave the way for you to enjoy physiological freedom.
Getting Rid of the Hunger Hormone
Perhaps one of the most remarkable changes in the way you behave after the surgery is the disappearance of your appetite as a result of a biological change. The surgeon completely removes the gastric fundus during a sleeve gastrectomy. This part of the stomach makes ghrelin, the major hormone responsible for making one feel hungry.
Ghrelin is the hormone that keeps your brain alert with food thoughts and cravings. Without its constant chemical signal, the loud food noise that affects many patients is now silenced. You would no longer experience this violent, uncontrollable physiological craving to eat. In Turkey, the Lin Health Europe Clinic team also informs patients that this hormonal silence is what allows small portions to be consumed without resistance and feeling like an agonizing, restrictive diet.
Life-Long Supplementation and Maintenance
Giving you amazing metabolic results, the surgery is also a demanding way of life, requiring discipline on your part. Reduced considerably, your diet now cannot supply you with large amounts of vitamins and minerals necessary for your biological functions.
Failing to do so will lead to effects like severe malnutrition, hair loss and osteoporosis. Therefore, you will be taking special bariatric multivitamins, calcium, and B12 supplements on a daily basis – as well as indefinitely – in order to maintain your health. In addition to this, you are recommended to follow hydration protocols strictly and take in fluids only between meals, and not during them, so as to avoid flushing out food from your stomach prematurely. We make sure that our international guests realize that their daily vitamin intake is a small and non-negotiable price to pay for years of excellent health and mobility.
Stomach Reduction in Turkey
At Lin Health Europe Clinic, we do not just see a perfect operation as the only hallmark of a successful bariatric procedure but rather lifelong education. Our clinic in Turkey is a place of outstanding medical support for advanced metabolic science along with psychological and nutritional care. Being accredited by JCI, our operating rooms reflect our position as the world leader in medical tourism for international patients and weight-loss surgery.
Choosing Lin Health Europe Clinic means choosing the most highly skilled, board-certified surgeons in Istanbul. Our world-renowned experts place utmost priority on your long-term metabolic stability and overall quality of life. From your first physiological examination to your final stage as a happy, active person, you will be receiving the professional rigor and hospitable treatment that have gained us popularity in the field of bariatrics. With us, your transition to an outstanding, significantly “normal” life is in the hands of the best in the world.
