Weight loss surgery can curb alterations in brain activity associated with obesity and improve cognitive function involved in planning, strategizing and organizing, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).
Obesity can tax the brain as well as other organs. Obese individuals face a 35 percent higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease compared to normal weight people.
Bariatric surgery is used to help people who are dangerously obese lose weight. Bariatric surgery procedures are designed to restrict the amount of food you can eat before you feel full by reducing the stomach’s size or limit the absorption of nutrients by removing part of the small intestine from the path food takes through the digestive tract. Some procedures, such as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYBG) surgery, use a combination of these methods. This study was the first to assess brain activity in women before and after bariatric surgery.
“When we studied obese women prior to bariatric surgery, we found some areas of their brains metabolized sugars at a higher rate than normal weight women,” said one of the study’s authors, Cintia Cercato, MD, PhD, of the University of São Paolo in São Paolo, Brazil. “In particular, obesity led to altered activity in a part of the brain linked to the development of Alzheimer’s disease — the posterior cingulate gyrus. Since bariatric surgery reversed this activity, we suspect the procedure may contribute to a reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.”
The longitudinal study examined the effect of RYBG surgery on the brain function of 17 obese women. Researchers used positron emission tomography (PET) scans and neuropsychological tests to assess brain function and activity in the participants prior to surgery and six months after the procedure. The same tests also were run once on a control group of 16 lean women.
Before they underwent surgery, the obese women had higher rates of metabolism in certain areas of the brain, including the posterior cingulate gyrus. Following surgery, there was no evidence of this exacerbated brain activity. Their brain metabolism rates were comparable to the activity seen in normal weight women.
After surgery, the obese women also performed better on a test measuring executive function — the brain’s ability to connect past experience and present action — than they did before the procedures. Executive function is used in planning, organizing and strategizing. Five other neuropsychological tests measuring various aspects of memory and cognitive function showed no change following the surgery.
“Our findings suggest the brain is another organ that benefits from weight loss induced by surgery,” Cercato said. “The increased brain activity the obese women exhibited before undergoing surgery did not result in improved cognitive performance, which suggests obesity may force the brain to work harder to achieve the same level of cognition.”
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Real question now, no idiots: Do you honestly, I mean honestly, I don’t
want some idiot filled with jealousy answering this by the way, but would
anyone say Jeff Seid is on steroids? I personally think not, good training,
decent size, and really good eating, but I’d like to think I could get to
his or Steve Cook’s size naturally, would love to.
Kai probably wouldn’t be so short if he didn’t start lifting so young
Look at these beta boys trying to train with a real lifter lmao
Fuuaaark Kai Greene hat so viel Power beim Bankdrücken nicht mehr normal
soll man diesen aufwärmprogramm nur beim brusttraining ausführen , oder bei
allen trainingstagen ? – nebenbei ein hammer VIDEO !
leute kai drückt unter 5 wiederholungen 180kg und dann wollt ihr mir sagen
das 200kg natural drinnen ist ? ihr mongos geht alle sterben die das
behaupten !!!!!!!
Should’ve had my boy jay cutler or Ronnie colemon on here not kai green
weird Ass
39:18 hat Kai da etwa den Suicide Grip verwendet???!?!?!?!
52:50 song name pls? or maybe link?
anyone knows?
Why are the 2 small guys not wearing a shirt? training shirtless seems
attention whoring and childish to me. Good on the big guy to show he’s an
adult.
Alon’s fucking roid gut lmao 16:38
Something crawls out of Kai’s butthole at 7:42.
I hate to be one who has negative comments about videos but this Jeff Seid
is a tool..I’m not hating..I respect his physique and everything but Kai
Greene is trying to share his philosophy with these guys (which is what
most Kai Greene fans love about him) and this knob keeps talking over the
top of him actually making out like he is on the same level..clearly he is
intimidated and in the presence of a true master..shut the f*#k up..listen
to Kai and stop trying to impress everybody..Kai is awesome because he is
humble..Love ya Kai!
We have to forgive Kai fucking a grape ! He is so smart and cool !
Kai should definitely start his own teaching programs man would people
flock.
Jeff & Alon – what’s up with your workout pants? No one wears their sweats
that low. It’s not even gangsta, it’s just gay.
my first ever hate comment on social media.. alon gabbay, but especially
JEFF SEID are COMPLETE WANKERS!
YOUR EGO! is that big that u are just a complete FUKN TOOL!
Do you really have that much knowledge and more experience that u can
finish off every sentence of a PRO BODY BUILDER? seriously u r a FUKN
TOOL!!
shut your mouth, listen and put your singlets back on.
man this kind of thing happens once in a lifetime training with with kai
Greene why the F*** was alon so quite not asking anything at all? i would
be asking question like each rep lol the more knowledge the better and i
think kai Greene thought jeff was awkward AF idk
Jeff hat echt nen krassen Körper aber er sieht wie die letzte Schwuchtel
aus.total feminin
Warum der pullover ?