The auntie turns into a hot Taiwanese girl! She injected botulinum toxin into her stomach and lost 24 kilograms in half a year

Being obese and having too much body fat can cause many side effects, such as diabetes, high blood lipids, high blood pressure, heart disease, and sleep apnea, all of which can be fatal! Therefore, weight loss has always been a national movement. In particular, some severely obese people need help with weight loss surgery, including: endoscopic weight loss, intragastric water balloon, intragastric botulinum toxin injection, which transformed a 45-year-old Miss Wu, who originally looked like an auntie, into a hot Taiwanese girl.

Almost one in two Taiwanese people is overweight. There are many ways to lose weight, from diet and exercise to oral medications. However, diet control is extremely difficult because people cannot control their diets. Oral medications have some side effects and are limited in effectiveness. As for patients with severe obesity (i.e. BMI > 35), weight loss surgery is necessary.

Weight loss surgery includes: intragastric balloon, intragastric botulinum toxin injection

Dr. Liu Jiajia from the International Metabolic and Physical Medicine Center of the China Medical University Hospital said that endoscopic weight loss has become popular in the United States in the past decade or so. Endoscopic weight loss is actually the use of general painless endoscopy to carry out a series of weight loss treatments, including the intragastric water balloon that was implemented in Taiwan in the early days, which is one of the methods of endoscopic weight loss. In addition, intragastric injection of botulinum toxin has been a widely discussed issue in recent years, but there have been no research results from Asians so far.

Dr. Liu Jiajia from the International Metabolic and Physical Medicine Center of China Medical University was assigned to start the endoscopic weight loss research at China Medical University after returning to China after studying endoscopic weight loss at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Under the guidance of President Huang Zhikun, he led the research team of the International Metabolic and Physical Medicine Center to conduct a study on the relationship between intragastric botulinum toxin injection and obesity in Asians, which is different from that in Europe and the United States.

Benefits of intragastric botulinum toxin injection: hunger can be reduced and satiety can be increased

In the treatment of more than 100 patients, it was found that intragastric botulinum toxin injected into the correct part of the stomach and using the correct dosage can change many gastrointestinal hormones in the human body and delay gastric emptying time, especially reducing the secretion of ghrelin and satiety-promoting intestinal hormone GLP-1. After receiving treatment, the patient's hunger can be reduced and the sense of fullness can be increased. By controlling their appetite and mouth, and combining it with correct eating and exercise habits, they can indeed achieve the result of losing weight.

A 45-year-old Ms. Wu was close to moderate obesity. She could not control her appetite and could not lose weight. She also suffered from prediabetes, hyperlipidemia and fatty liver. After receiving an intragastric botulinum toxin injection, she successfully lost 24 kilograms in less than half a year, and instantly advanced from an aunt to a young woman.

[Weight loss doctor’s advice]:

Dr. Liu Jiajia said that botulinum toxin is injected into the stomach to suppress appetite and food intake. The effectiveness of one injection is about 6 months. As for the side effects that everyone is concerned about, among more than 100 patients, 1% may experience mild stomach cramps on the first day after injection, and 30% may experience mild stomach tingling. After all, botulinum toxin is still a neurotoxin. Some patients with special diseases are not suitable for intragastric botulinum toxin injections. Therefore, it is recommended that they still need to be evaluated by a professional gastroscopy weight loss physician to know whether they are suitable for intragastric botulinum toxin treatment.