WHAT IS THE GOAL?
Obesity is a complex and multi-factorial disease that is influenced by multiple lifestyle factors. A sedentary lifestyle paired with poor eating habits and genetic and endocrine-metabolic factors often represent significant obstacles for patients.
Excess weight often causes:
- Poor coordination.
- Balance problems.
- Lack of or limited mobility.
- Social problems and isolation.
- Respiratory problems.
Benefits of physical activity:
- Increases energy expenditure.
- Helps control appetite and reduce calorie intake.
- Improves metabolic profile.
- Limits the onset or progression of type 2 diabetes.
- Controls and reduces high blood pressure.
- Reduces LDL cholesterol and triglycerides.
- Increases HDL cholesterol.
- Increases bone density.
- Improves respiratory capacity.
- Improves self-esteem and quality of life.
- Helps combat anxiety and stress.
- Makes the immune system more effective.
- Helps maintain long-term weight loss.
- Improves strength and muscle function.
- Reduces low-grade chronic inflammation linked to obesity.
- Improves the quality of articular collagen.
- Increases tendon resistance.
- Reduces visceral fat.
Medical team
Prestigious experts in the treatment of obesity and overweight
We have a comprehensive clinic and multidisciplinary team comprised of multiple specialists: expert surgeons in metabolic and bariatric surgery techniques, endocrinologists, nutritionists, psychologists, specialists in exercise and fitness education, and more.
In addition, our patients can choose from a wide range of services at the Quirónsalud Sagrado Corazón Hospital, and the experts they may need from any specialized units: Intensive Care, Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, Radiology, etc.
