What is morbid obesity?

Morbid obesity is a disease of multifactorial origin, with a large genetic component, and therefore is chronic and progressive. Patients with obesity genes can lose with more or less sacrifice all or part of the excessive weight, but maintain for life the tendency to recover it.

When severe obesity (BMI greater than 35) is reached, there is a change in that person’s metabolism, so that progressive weight gain is facilitated, and it becomes difficult to lose weight.

This difficulty is transmitted to us by our patients every day in our Clinic, and perhaps you already know that phrase: “After a certain point in my life, it has been hard for me to lose weight, and I have regained it with enormous ease”.

That’s why we insist that:

• Weight loss can only be maintained over the long term, through a radical change in dietary habit and lifestyle.
• In morbidly obese (BMI greater than 40), only one obesity operation is able to achieve and perpetuate weight loss.