nutrition therapy and bariatric surgery:

a powerful synergy

Nutritional therapy prior to bariatric procedures can provide significant benefits to surgeons and patients alike:

• Presurgery
• Improved transition to postoperative diet and behavior
• Reduced fatty liver and decrease in liver volume
• Decreased visceral adipose tissue

• Postsurgery
• Reduced risk of liver trauma and blood loss
• Reduced laparoscopic procedure time
• Increased weight loss first year postoperatively

Some OPTIFAST clinics and bariatric surgery centers offer presurgical support programs to help prepare patients for surgery. Many OPTIFAST clinics also welcome bariatric patients into their overall long-term management programs and continue to provide OPTIFAST product to those patients who were started on OPTIFAST prior to surgery.

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