It would not be strictly surgical, but still experimental yes: the results are promising for the new weight loss operation that without surgery would lose up to thirteen percent of excess body weight in obese subjects within the first six months of treatment. What are we talking about, exactly? An operation to lose weight without a scalpel and without serious postoperative complications, such as those pertaining to bariatric surgery, already used for the treatment of ulcers: it would in fact be a bariatric embolization procedure , which consists in the occlusion of the stomach arteries with a procedure minimally invasive (through a catheter) which, however, would allow you to feel much less hungry and therefore lose weight

Until a few years ago, the bariatric embolization experiment was carried out on mice , with a drop in the hunger hormone grielin, because the portion of the stomach that would cease to be vascularized, the fundus of the stomach, would be responsible for the production of this hormone. Decreasing the sense of hunger, there would have been a consequent loss of weight on the treated animals. At the moment there are already the first trials on human patients suffering from severe obesity, who have lost about eight percent of their excess body fat in three months and thirteen percent in six months: we are therefore talking about a few kilos (if weigh 50 kilos too much, you would lose about 7 kilos in six months), but it is also true that this result would be achieved without a real surgical operation but by acting on the reduction of the patient’s hunger.