Men’s Study: Lose Massive Weight, Make More Whoopee
Obesity has become so common, a major industry has developed in removing weight by surgically restricting how much food a stomach can hold.
Plastic surgeons and other physicians even have a realistic name for patients who have lost 100, 150 or more pounds through that type of surgery: Massive Weight Loss, or MWL.
People who carry many extra pounds are known to physicians as “morbidly obese” because the extra weight can bring on other life-threatening or life-shortening health conditions.
Some statistical experts have found that MWL surgeries are among the fastest growing in the United States.
While some methods perform surgery on the stomach and lower intestines to reduce calories, the lap band procedure does not make incisions to the stomach. Among its advantages, the lap band can be easily removed and adjusted and is inserted via minimally invasive surgery.
Just take a look at this patient’s before and after lap band picture.
But a new study adds some extra motivation for men who need to lose massive amounts of weight: a man’s personal life may again enjoy what singers Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole so aptly described as “making whoopee.”
A recent article in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons found that sexual dysfunction is common in the morbidly obese male. But losing massive amounts of weight can bring it all back home again.
Researchers from the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia measured sexual dysfunction in 97 morbidly obese men. They then analyzed the changes in sexual function after their massive weight loss.
Results? Not too surprisingly, after losing two-thirds of their body weight, the men could then function about the same as a man of the same age who was never morbidly obese.
Wrote the researchers: “We estimate that a man who is morbidly obese has the same degree of sexual dysfunction as a non-obese man about 20 years older.
“Sexual dysfunction should be considered one of a number of potentially reversible complications of obesity.”
admin @ April 6, 2009