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Bariatric surgery . . . . for kids?!

 

That’s precisely what the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is recommending: more weight loss surgery for overweight kids.

This sort of perverted advice reflects the deep and widespread failure of the healthcare system to address nutrition and health, resorting instead to an awful surgical “solution” that, contrary to the AAP’s declaration that it is a proven safe option, is filled with complications, nutritional deficiencies, dysbiotic alterations in bowel flora, hormonal disruptions, and—not all that rarely—death. (Granted that it was over 10 years ago, but the first patient I had who underwent gastric bypass surgery against my advice struggled with diarrhea, malabsorption, depression, panic attacks, numerous nutritional deficiencies, and then died suddenly at age 44.)

Those of you following the Wheat Belly lifestyle in which we:

Banish all wheat, grains, and sugars
Never restrict calories or fat
Take steps to normalize insulin resistance–vitamin D, magnesium, iodine/thyroid optimization
Cultivate healthy bowel flora

already know that weight loss is something that is readily, easily, inexpensively achievable, no costly and hazardous surgery involved, regardless of age. The Wheat Belly lifestyle causes us to essentially revert back to the way humans survived and thrived for the first 3.5 million years our species has walked this planet, obesity and overweight entirely unknown.

ALWAYS bear in mind that healthcare is, first and foremost, a business. While I don’t believe that pediatricians have a direct stake in promoting bariatric surgery, they do have a stake in building revenues for the healthcare system. (Recall that most physicians today are employees of healthcare systems with, for instance, bigger quarterly bonuses based on the revenue they generate for the system.) This creates a clear-cut bias towards encouraging use of high-ticket products and procedures. This is what modern American healthcare has become: a means of monetizing health while never actually dispensing products or services that actually achieve health. Like biological agents for autoimmune diseases, cancer and heart disease, bariatric surgery has become a growing profit center for healthcare systems.

Before anyone submits a child to the—lifelong—horrors of bariatric surgery (that, by the way, virtually guarantees a lifetime of struggling with the consequences of SIBO), why wouldn’t you go beyond the absurd efforts of reducing calories, “move more, eat less,” watch less TV, etc. all the ridiculous and ineffective advice that pediatricians dispense?

 

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Wheat Belly saving Keoni over $16,000 per year

 

Keoni shared an update on his Wheat Belly experience. If you haven’t yet seen Keoni’s inspiring video testimonial, you can view it here. After having lost 80+ pounds and being relieved of numerous health conditions, he has gained the confidence of spectacular health and therefore decided to opt out of conventional healthcare insurance:

“I’m saving $16,000 a year on Wheat Belly.

“By being on the Wheat Belly program, I am saving so much money, its going to pay for all my food for the year and two 10 day vacations coming up soon. This wouldn’t be happening if we weren’t so healthy at our household. Let me explain.

“On my last doctor visit to go over my blood work, my doctor told me my blood work was not normal, that it was optimal! And that my blood pressure was that of a 20 year old. She then asked me what the heck I was doing. I told her doctor Davis’s name. She spun around on her chair, typed it in on the computer and asked me if this was the guy. I said yes! She stated I’m going to have to do this!

“Right after that visit towards the end of last year, I received my new healthcare insurance premium. It went from about $1,450 a month to almost $1,800 a month, or $21,600 a year. Yes, my wife and I happen to be self-insured. Before canceling our family’s health insurance, we joined a health share program.  It’s there for an emergency. We pay the first $5,000, they cover the rest in most cases.

“Our new health (share) premium each month is $450 compared to the previous $1,800 a month. We are saving $16,200 a year. That covers two vacations and food for the entire year.

“When we stick with the program, we get better. Some people more than others. In our case it enabled us to make a decision to break away from modern healthcare and save a large amount of money. You can say we are truly Undoctored. Thanks to the Wheat Belly lifestyle!

p.s. Now that I become Undoctored, I decided to play the part, my new UNDCTRD license plates are in the mail.

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