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I understand what's happening but it's hard for me to explain to other people. My sister really wants to understand how it works but she doesn't understand my explanation. Maybe somebody can break it down a little easier than I can.

Also, I do have one question. If the band is around my stomach to create a smaller pouch, then what is the opening that is so small that I have to chew and take extra small bites for? I assumed it was the opening to my stomach, but that doesn't make sense to me if the band is around my stomach and not affected the opening. I know this mat be a stupid question, but apparently I don't know as much as I thought.

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when they put the band the opening to the stomach it creates a pouch right above it to cause the nerves ending to your brain that you are full. usally we fill our stomach up from the bottom and we can eat a lot before the nerves are touched and told the brain u have eaten. Now we are talking to the brain with the first bit that we already full which cause us to feel satisfied on a very small amount of food. At least that is my understanding. Often they have a picture of it our here,i am sure some will send it to you.

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Here is a picture of the band:

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The band does two things, it creates a small pouch above the band and it adds just enough pressure to the Vagus nerve to dim the hunger signals to the brain. The combination of these two things make it so you're satisfied on much less food for a considerably longer period of time. Essentially, it tricks your brain into thinking "oh, I've had enough!" with only a fraction of the food we used to eat.

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Watch this video. It explains it in finite detail:

part 2

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perfect Missy I know you would have the picture

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