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Losing weight is tough. You’ve got to eat healthier, start exercising, and just stop being such a lazy, horrible slob in general. That is unless you get a pump that literally sucks food out of your stomach and replaces it with water after the fact. Talk about enabling.
The pump was invented by Dean Kamen, the same man who brought you the Segway, and perhaps more fittingly, a breakthrough dialysis machine. This pump works by routing a tube directly into the user’s stomach and then sucking out some of the gooey, masticated goodness. The user then squeezes a little plastic bag to replace that volume of stomach-stew with water. Sounds great, right?
There are some catches though. It hasn’t been approved by the FDA yet, and some of the users in the tests had problems with certain foods like “cauliflower, broccoli, Chinese food, stir fry, snow peas, pretzels, chips, and steak.” Oh, also there’s a tube going into your stomach that you use to pump unpuked vomit into the toilet. Participants in trial studies did manage to lose about half of their excess weight this way, around 45 pounds on average, so apparently it works.
Tech is great, and it can solve a lot of problems, but something about this just seems off. Sure, this isn’t going to make you totally svelte and healthy if you’re only eating McDonalds, but it still seems to miss the point of healthy eating. Also, it’s gross, really gross. Admittedly the idea is to get users to move to a healthier diet, but surely there must be a way to do that without creating another bodily orifice, right? [Popular Science]
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If it takes out food with some stomach acid and just replaces it with water, that must surely cause other side effects as the stomach will be making more stomach acid than usual which will continue after it’s no longer being used.
Sounds a bit too much like bulimia without the associated dental problems
I’ll stick with throwing up thanks, get twice the taste that way too
This area’s becoming big business after the results of gastric banding, sleeving and bypass surgery. Helps with type 2 dm, high blood pressure and obesity, surprisingly, all on a hormonal level- there are already two other products in the pipeline- EndoBalloon (I think) and a condom for your duodenum/ jejenum (I kid you not!)
As obesity becomes ever more endemic,there’s big money to be made out of this (and for the surgeons)
That’s shocking!
Gastric bands I agree with, that makes the patient feel full and stop eating and eventually can help them reduce their food intake and lose weight
This gizmo is just wrong, the patient will think they can eat anything without consequence and will learn nothing
I hope it doesn’t get cleared for use
Don’t doctors usually try to help people with eating disorders, instead of encouraging them?