Concentrated protein supplementation is highly recommended for bariatric patients for two specific reasons. One is to aid short-term recovery after bariatric, or weight reducing surgery, and the other is maintaining long-term good health.

Bariatric surgery can be minor or major, and can be very traumatic to particularly overweight bariatric patients. Wound healing demands the amino acids necessary to generate new protein tissue, and concentrated protein supplementation is ideal for that. Over the longer term, you will not be able to each as much as you did previously, and depending upon the extent of the surgery, your food intake could be fairly severely restricted.

If this is the case, then the food that you do eat should be as nutritious as possible. If you filled your diet full of sugary foods and plant or vegetable foodstuffs from which you would be able to extract only a small amount of nutrition, then you would likely not take sufficient proteins, vitamins and minerals to maintain a healthy body, and, yes, you would certainly lose weight, but you would not get the full benefit of the procedure you have undergone because you would be able to maintain a good level of health.

During the first few days after surgery you will be given highly nutritious liquid foods to ingest, and a high protein concentrate would be ideal to promote satisfactory and rapid healing of your wounds.  In order to heal, your body must generate protein and a protein supplement will provide you with all the raw materials you need for that. Going into the future, the same protein supplement will provide you with all the amino acids you need to allow your body to biosynthesize all the proteins it requires to function properly.

Proteins are everywhere in your body, and are absolutely essential for life. They form all the enzymes that enable your body's chemistry to progress smoothly, they help digest your food and enable your metabolism to maintain life, and are also the basis of your DNA, the molecule of life itself. Without proteins there would be no life as we know it, animal or vegetable.

Your body does not use raw protein from your diet to generate other proteins, but breaks dietary proteins down into their constituent amino acids.  Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins - a bit like differently shaped Lego bricks that can be joined together in an almost unlimited number of ways to form larger units:  proteins.

Depending upon the source you read, there are from 20 to 22 standard amino acids that are used to produce the thousands of proteins in your body. Of these amino acids, there from 8 to 10 that the body cannot manufacture itself, and so must be available from the proteins in your diet. Without these you could not survive.

Bearing in mind that bariatric patients can eat only a small amount of food, it is unlikely that you would be able to maintain a healthy diet, containing all the proteins you need and also all the vitamins and minerals needed by your body. Not to mention the carbohydrates needed for energy, such as the energy required to keep your heart beating, your lungs breathing and your digestion working.

Concentrated protein supplementation enables you to meet all your protein requirements in order that the body can extract the amino acids it needs and still leave room for you to take in the vitamins and minerals needed and for you the enjoy the 'reward foods' that will give the your carbohydrate requirement. In that way, bariatric patients can enjoy their meals just as anybody else.

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