Comments on: New VBLOC Weight Loss Surgery Targets Vagus Nerve http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/04/16/new-weight-loss-surgery-targets-vagus-nerve/ Desperate to reclaim your body and control your insatiable appetite? Diet not working? It is time for \"Inside Out Weight Loss.\" Learn to stay slim, no matter what life throws at you.Leading diet and weight-loss coach Renee Stephens, of www.mindforbody.com, has helped hundreds shed from 5 to 125 pounds. Renee specializes in turning around the eating and diet habits of those most resistant to change, including yo-yo dieters, binge eaters, and bulimics, with whom she has an astonishing 75% success rate.Drawing on cutting-edge techniques from Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnotherapy and Positive Psychology, host Renee Stephens\' signature fusion-therapy approach will transform your relationship with your diet, your body, and yourself, permanently. Each week you\'ll get closer to creating the body of your dreams, supported by Renee\'s focus on diet and weight issues for more than twenty years. Listen and let Renee reprogram your mind and your relationship with food, shifting your underlying belief systems. You will learn how to tame your inner rebel, align your goals with your values, and achieve lifetime weight mastery. End the diet, regain, diet cycle once and for all.Dieting or not, you can add this weekly podcast into your current lifestyle and witness significant and lasting results. Renee\'s great voice, smooth delivery, and numerous examples of people like you succeeding make this podcast a must listen every week. So toss out your diet pills, diet plans and diet mentality. Start at the first show, or jump right in, and get ready for a program that will pay off for a lifetime. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:08:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: aMY http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/04/16/new-weight-loss-surgery-targets-vagus-nerve/#comment-383 aMY Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:45:03 +0000 http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/04/16/new-weight-loss-surgery-targets-vagus-nerve/#comment-383 I think people who go through with this procedure should also work on their insides as well. I think people who go through with this procedure should also work on their insides as well.

]]> By: karen http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/04/16/new-weight-loss-surgery-targets-vagus-nerve/#comment-249 karen Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:28:26 +0000 http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/04/16/new-weight-loss-surgery-targets-vagus-nerve/#comment-249 You are quite right in the statement that people who don't feel hunger won't likely be helped by this surgery. I fear that this is true for most overweight people, that it's not the hunger, but rather the desire to eat outside of hunger that causes unnecessary weight gain. Additionally, it seems quite risky to tamper with the vagus nerve. Check out wikipedia. The vagus is the only nerve that starts in the brain and runs all the way down to the abdomen. It supports many many physiological processes, hunger being one of the least of them. Do you really want to go messing with the nerve that has an influence on epilepsy? Or heart rate, sweating, speech and breathing? Yikes. You are quite right in the statement that people who don’t feel hunger won’t likely be helped by this surgery. I fear that this is true for most overweight people, that it’s not the hunger, but rather the desire to eat outside of hunger that causes unnecessary weight gain.
Additionally, it seems quite risky to tamper with the vagus nerve. Check out wikipedia. The vagus is the only nerve that starts in the brain and runs all the way down to the abdomen. It supports many many physiological processes, hunger being one of the least of them. Do you really want to go messing with the nerve that has an influence on epilepsy? Or heart rate, sweating, speech and breathing? Yikes.

]]> By: Jesse S. http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/04/16/new-weight-loss-surgery-targets-vagus-nerve/#comment-248 Jesse S. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:10:10 +0000 http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/04/16/new-weight-loss-surgery-targets-vagus-nerve/#comment-248 My common sense told me to stay away from it! It is more rewarding having the feeling of losing the weight naturally without the surgery and we are more alive with that feeling. Plus this surgery is messing with the nervous system and I don't recommend doing so. I have learned in Biology class, that one mess up in a nerve can have bad damage throughout the body, so if something were to go wrong with this procedure, it may have negative outcomes that can be permanent. Overall, it is really up to that person to make the decision, but that he or she should think things through. My common sense told me to stay away from it!

It is more rewarding having the feeling of losing the weight naturally without the surgery and we are more alive with that feeling.

Plus this surgery is messing with the nervous system and I don’t recommend doing so. I have learned in Biology class, that one mess up in a nerve can have bad damage throughout the body, so if something were to go wrong with this procedure, it may have negative outcomes that can be permanent.

Overall, it is really up to that person to make the decision, but that he or she should think things through.

]]> By: Barbara http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/04/16/new-weight-loss-surgery-targets-vagus-nerve/#comment-247 Barbara Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:04:20 +0000 http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/04/16/new-weight-loss-surgery-targets-vagus-nerve/#comment-247 Great post. I just discovered you last night and am listening to your podcasts. I agree with you on this, hunger is not the problem! Glad I found your site. Great post. I just discovered you last night and am listening to your podcasts. I agree with you on this, hunger is not the problem!

Glad I found your site.

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