Image of a collection of nerves

To you people that are badly in need of ways to lose weight. A new technique has been discovered, and it has to do with freezing one of your nerves.

You probably would be wondering if it safe to freeze one of your nerves to lose weight. Some group of scientists have discovered that by doing that, your hunger appetite would be decreased (decreased hunger signal from your gut to the brain) and thereby decreasing your body weight.

Monitoring your weight

As at 21st of March in a small-scale pilot trial at the Annual Scientific Meeeting Of The Society Of Interventional Radiology in Los Angeles, said that the procedure led to decreased appetite and weight loss in all 10 participants.

But more research is still needed, as this was only a pilot study with no control group.
Dr. Lawrence Cheskin, director of the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center in Baltimore, was not totally for it, but was certainly interested in it.

Procedure

The proedure majorly involves the posterior vagal trunk, which is located at the base of the oesophagus that sends signals to the brain when the stomach is empty.

A needle like instrument is inserted into the back of the patient and is monitored by a medical imaging system known as (CT) Computed Tomography Scan to ensure accuracy of the needle.

Then argon gas is released from the instrument, cooling the nerve to a subzero temperature, thereby paralyzing and preventing it from sending hunger signals to the brain.

This pilot study involved only 10 people of ages 27-60. And with (BMIs) of range 30-37.
Normal BMI ranges from 18.5-25

According to Dr. David Prologo, who is the lead study author and an inteventional radiologist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta,

The patients lost, on an average, 14 percent of their excess body weight which is equivalent to about 3.6 percent of their overall body weight, within 90 days of the procedure. Which is what you want, because the weight loss is exactly in line with the recommendations of how fast a person should lose weight.

• Dr. David Prologo

So, What Happens To The Other Functions Of The Said Vagus Nerve

The posterior vagus nerve also help move food through the stomach, and by disabling it, movement of food through the stomach becomes slow, thereby delaying hunger, so the stoping of this function also helps in weight loss.

The nerve also controls the nervous system of the gut and other functions, and absence of this nerve could lead to many side effects including nausea, and vomiting.
But during the pilot study, there was no report of any significant side efect.
Dr. Prolog even said that bledding should be expected, but none of the patients showed any sign of it.

Is It Realy Safe?

Dr. Cheskin still is expressing doubt about the long term effect of the procedure, because the body ensure that it does not lose weight easily. For example, slowing down metabolism.

The effects of the nerve-freezing wears off within eight months to a year, and Dr. Prologo said that during this time other mechanisms would be provided by the body to ensure there is no case of starvation.

Moreover, the pocedure would only freeze one of the two vagus nerve, and therby only decreasing the hunger appetite.

This period (8-12 month) of decreased hunger according to Dr. prologo is enough for the body to adjust being at a lower weight.

When you try to loose weight, the body rebels because it does not know what you are doing, so it fights back, but by freezing this nerve, you can actually deceive the body to cooperate with you on the battle.

There are many ways to reduce weight, you go to a sight and you see, a grandma's remedy of a mixtures of thingsm you see many ways of loosing weight, but the fact still remains

• Stay away from junk foods
• Excercise regulary
• Drink a lot of water

And remember

EAT WELL, LIVE WELL

Heed to this!!!

More research is still going on with Dr. Prologo and his team, and more data will soon be published.

This data was gotten form Live Science.

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Reference:
https://www.livescience.com/62095-hunger-nerve-freezing-weight-loss.html?utm_source=notification

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