do well with this, they can get surgery. now, this particular patient had a bypass, ended up having stricture at the coronary area. he put in a stint and is die lating it, and he thinks it s sending a message to the brain saying they re full. we don t know if it helps you lose weight by filling it up, it sends messages to the brain, or by dilating this sphincter. has it come to the u.s. yet? i think we should pursue it and give it a chance. one more quick point about this, whereas with the lap band where you basically put a rubber band around to stop the food going in, this device you remove after six months, so i m a little wary after six months, somebody is going to go right back. or is it a warning that changes your lifestyle? who knows.
do well with this they can get surgery. now this particular patient had a bypass, ended up having stricture as an esolve jeel, it s putting a stint and dilating it. and he thinks those are sending signals to the brain saying that i m full. we don t know whether it s the size of the stomach that makes you lose weight by filling it up, you send messages to the brain or dilating this sphincter. so it s done in other countries, hasn t come to u.s. yet, but i think we should pursue it and give it a chance. innovative surgeons, whereas with a lap band where you basically put a rubber band around, this device you remove after six months. so i m a little worried that after six months it s going to go right back.
and fans say it s the real deal. but there s a catch. you have to go abroad to get it. we have the story from mexico. hi, kim. how are you? oh, my god. at 330 pounds, 48-year-old kimmy g. says she s never full. not bad. okay. i did eat one before that. we re not going to talk about that. reporter: she s tried every diet and weight loss regime. still nothing seems to work. but kimmy recently heard of a new capsule, a magic bullet, to help in the fight to lose weight. one that claims the kind of results that so far only invasive surgery has produced and it s not just for the severely overweight. are you nervous? i m excited. i m excited because i don t want to have the gastric bypass or lap band. reporter: why not? because i feel cutting your stomach is not the issue. the issue is right here. that s the main issue.
said jack ass in the room. speaking of twitter, time says elephant really? fat shaming has no place in politics. does this make him more popular because a lot of people battle their weight. sympathy. of course. battling weight is a medical condition. i did like one of the tweets on the story. somebody said the miami dolphins former football player time is letting richy incognito write their cover stories for them. obesity is a medical condition. that is probably why they are spinning off their magazines. it is a bit of a concern that this lap band is not working.
pounds. yes. how are you doing it? i mean, i had that lap band surgery and this is, you know, 2 1/2 years ago. wow. and quite honestly it was, you know, i knew i had to do something drastic that, you know, i was 350 pounds. so i did a lot of research on it and there s you can do the sleeve gastric bypass or the lap band and without a doubt the lap band was the best for me. i looked at the risks, some of the surgery more intense than this and the other thing is, the long-term, you know, the success rate of the long term. the sleeve you can lose weight but gain it back. the same thing with the other procedure. but the lap band, you re constantly like tweaking it, the main thing, you get the right doctor, go to lapband.com to get the right surgeon. that s the key. how many times can you count the ways in terms of how much you feel better? oh, my gosh. it s unbelievable.