ReShape Duo Product

There are obese people (representing one third of the US adult population) and a smaller number of morbidly obese for whom diet and exercise usually have little effect.  Their weight loss choices are various surgical procedures for stomach reduction or the adjustable gastric banding system. Two other solutions, however, have recently surfaced, a dual-balloon device (see animation of insertion and removal)  filled with saline, inserted and removed with an endoscope, and a hydrogel-based pill that swells with stomach liquids—in both cases creating an artificial “fullness” the inhibits appetite.  With the latter product, an oral solution dissolves the hydrogel after weight loss is achieved.  MORE

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