Weight Loss Medicine - Yale Medicine Explains

Our goal is to make you healthy. Excess weight is a common problem that develops gradually, and can cause fatigue, diabetes, fatty liver, sleep problems and the risk of many cancers. It reduces your energy, leaves you tired and takes the pleasure out of many aspects of your life. Extra weight also places great stress on your vital organs including your heart, liver, kidneys, joints and reproductive system. Organs can work under this extra stress for a number of years, but eventually they are likely to fail. Most organs have to lose about 80 percent of their capacity before symptoms are evident, and by that time it is frequently too late to return them to normal function.