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and lose my high blood pressure.
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This is Bruce Howlett.
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In a few minutes, his stomach
will be surgically reduced
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to the size of a small apple
in a gastric bypass operation.
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People with hypertension
who are obese,
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about 75% of them
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will get rid of
their hypertensive medications.
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Doctors Adam Naaman
and Carl Geisler
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will be performing
the operation.
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Together,
they have done more than 500
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gastric bypass surgeries,
and with their tandem technique,
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they are setting
the industry standard,
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completing the procedure
in less than 30 minutes
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and sending patients home
the following day.
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We have established now
that the only procedure
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that really cures diabetes
is obesity surgery.
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I went blind for a week.
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Just one day out of the blue,
you went blind?
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I went to work,
drove to work that night,
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got to work,
couldn't read the charts,
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and I had to call my supervisor,
tell her I couldn't work
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because I couldn't see
what I was doing,
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and called my wife,
had to get her to ride to work
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to pick me up
and take me home.
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And then once I stopped
drinking the diet soda waters,
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got my sugars back down.
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I was fortunate enough,
my eyesight came back.
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I didn't do that much damage
to them at that time.
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I think it's human nature
to seek a drastic solution
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only when you're faced
with a drastic problem.
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I drank three or four
of those a day.
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This is a half-gallon,
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so that means
you were drinking probably
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about two gallons of soda
a day.
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It wasn't unusual,
for a two-week time,
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we'd buy
50 two-liters of soda water.
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50 two-liters
every two weeks.
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And I'd probably end up
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having to pick him up
a couple extra.
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He drinks more than I do.
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Ill go through
about one of those a day.
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There's some days I go through
three or four two-liters.
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A lot of us
don't realize the social stigma
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that these people face
on a daily basis.