Nutritional Deficiencies after Weight Loss Surgery (Gastric Bypass / Bariatric Surgery) – Dr. Berg

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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 a gastric bypass they bring your stomach lining or Surface area down to 10% of what it should be so thereby automatically putting you a situation where you’re not absorbing as many nutrients not just from the stomach but from the small intestines 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 um unfortunately it comes with a package number one your calcium levels are going to usually be low um and the problem with that is that if this if you don’t have enough acid in your stomach um 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 um 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 Pika which is craving uh ice or clay or ashes or uh you know some other you know something of the Earth you start like liking to eat dirt um so that’s an iron deficiency not everyone gets that but that could happen and then decrease uh zinc in the body or other trace minerals so zinc is a trace mineral and so are other uh minerals uh 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 enough uh zinc you start getting you know acne white spots on the nail right there um also hair loss now white spots in the nail are not necessarily only coming from gastric bypass it could come when you ate a lot of sugar which depleted your zinc that’s another cause but the trace minerals are U you’re just having a def efficiency of Trace mineral so we have a lot of issues with that and then vitamin B1 so you don’t absorb B1 um and you don’t get the full B1 so your stress level might go up you might have sleeping issues memory issues that’s a B1 deficiency and also vitamin B1 is um necessary for neurological development even the ocular uh muscles of the eye so if you were to have someone you probably see this if someone looks this way and one eye goes this way one eye goes this way that’s a vitamin B1 deficiency okay like the eyes just are not in coordination and then B12 that’s anemia that’s chronic fatigue syndrome that’s neurological issues um it just goes on and on and on um and then protein in general so you don’t get the full absorption and digestion and simulation of amino acids so there goes the neurotransmitters goes your mood your hormones and then your collagen of your skin the ligaments the tendons I mean here you are losing this weight but how you going to get the toned uh muscles or the the skin that’s sagging off your body uh and then we have fat CBO Vitamins because in order for the gallbladder to release you need these other organs in place to all work in coordination so without enough bile you can’t pull in vitamin A D E K2 and that leads to a whole chain reactions of things with the vision problem especially at night the skin my dry out vitamin D is calcium bone pain vitamin E is heart hormones and vitamin K2 is calcium extraction from the body and putting it drives it into the bone so you might have a problem with uh some thinning of the bones and also calcification of joints in the arteries other than that you’ll be fine uh and then we have folate which is really uh an interesting vitamin that has a lot to do with uh um an enzyme that helps uh in in a lot of different functions proteins and also blood sugars and digestion and it affects neurotransmitters um and so you might get depressed just from having this one deficiency right here so you’re going to have to just be um very aware of what’s going on your body and take some of these nutrients in forms that absorb easily uh you might get dissolvable U trace minerals and minerals okay and you might have to get certain B vitamins like in the nutritional yeast I think that would be a good thing the problem you’re going to run into is trying to find something natural because most people take synthetics especially if it comes in a liquid and they don’t really realize the synthetics are very different than food based or natural ones so they might get the synthetic version which doesn’t really uh act the same as the natural food base in the complexes so I put a couple links down below of some ideas if you have the situation some good ideas that you can um look at to start taking some real nutrition that you will be able to absorb to minimize the damage from that but um unfortunately what they’re recommending when you get gastric bypass is usually some shake that’s filled with synthetics and chemicals and a bunch of other crap that you don’t need so you need the higher level of like a quality type thing all right all right so I hope that helps and thank you so much for watching Press the subscribe button press it forget it forget it I’m done press the Subscribe button and I will keep you updated on the future events