Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery
Assisted Weight Loss
Restart Life with Restored Health
Carrying extra pounds is not a cosmetic issue – obesity is actually a chronic inflammatory DISEASE which will progress over time and lead to earlier death, markedly increase the risk of other major diseases including many cancers, and markedly reduce quality of life.
Obesity and associated diseases lock you into metabolic cycles that keep you trapped and unable to break free.
Intensive diets, exercise, and therapy can have short term results, but most people diagnosed with obesity (BMI >30) regain all the weight and more within a year.
Drugs (pharmaceuticals) have gained popularity but are expensive, can have significant side effects, and promise only short term weight loss of lower magnitude.
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Diet, Exercise, and “Will Power” just don’t work for 95% of people who are already clinically obese
This is NOT a sign of weakness. It is proof that Biology Always Wins.
The 3 BIGGEST LESSONS I have learned
From 20+ years of offering Bariatric Surgery:
1
Your body reacts to your environment (some of which you control, much you do not) to try to achieve Balance. Blaming yourself or others for having obesity is “Victim Shaming” and, unfortunately, pervasive in our society.
2
Surgery is primarily effective because of its effects on Metabolism – your Biology. But it Springboards you to Success in many other ways as well…
3
“Skinny” people struggle with food as well (my own issue), so true long-lasting health requires not only a healthy weight, but also a healthy relationship with food and our environments.
Empowering you to change your life
Acceptance
Action
Appreciation
“There is NO OTHER medical or surgical treatment (not even the new trendy meds) that can offer the extensive benefits we see from Bariatric Surgery performed in a quality comprehensive program.”
– Dr.P
Benefits of Bariatric Surgery
| up to | |
| Migraines | 57% resolved |
| Pseudotumor Cerebri | 96% resolved |
| Dyslipidemia Hypercholesterolemia | 63% resolved |
| Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease | 90% improved fat infiltration |
| 37% resolution of inflammation | |
| 20% resolution of fibrosis | |
| Metabolic Syndrome | 80% resolved |
| Type II Diabetes Mellitus | 83% resolved |
| Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome | 79% resolution of hirsutism |
| 100% resolution of menstrual dysfunction | |
| Venous Stasis Ulcers | 95% resolved |
| Depression | 55% resolved |
| Obstructive Sleep Apnea | 74-98% resolved |
| Asthma | 82% improved or resolved |
| Cardiovascular Disease | 82% risk reduction |
| High Blood Pressure | 52-92% resolved |
| Reflux Disease | 72-98% resolved |
| Stress Urinary Incontinence | 44-88% resolved |
| Degenerative Joint Disease | 41-76% resolved |
| Gout | 77% resolved |
| Mortality | 89% reduction in 5-year mortality |
| Data from Cleveland Clinic Foundation 2014 | |
Restarting Life with Restored Health
Most Patients say “My only regret? I wish I had done this sooner!”
Interview with Weight Loss Surgery Patient
Reason for undergoing surgery: There were multiple reasons for my decision to undergo weight loss surgery. One of the most significant factors was my conversation with my primary care physician (PCP), who took a realistic and honest approach. He pointed out that while...
Dance to Health
Get up and dance to your music with a new lease on life! Life is a journey, and mine became very scary when I hit a peak weight of 527lbs and suffered my first pulmonary embolism in 2009. I had a large umbilical hernia for over 20 years, and my primary care physician...
Skinny Nana
I moved to NH in 2018 after the death of my father. At that time I was considered “morbidly obese” and I knew I was. I had considered Weight Loss Surgery three times while living in CA. Each time was not the right time. At the time I had moved I was smoking a half...
Dr. Paciulli is widely recognized as a thoughtful and precise surgeon with quality outcomes and excellent patient success rates. She is also a compassionate and fully present holistic-minded provider. She is among the first group of surgeons in the United States to achieve the “Focused Practice Designation in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery” issued by the American Board of Surgery in 2022.