What Chris Thompson has said about Bariatric surgery
1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 21, 2026
Chris Thompson, Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of interventional gastroenterology at Mass General Brigham, has been quoted on Bariatric surgery once in 1 episode of Huberman Lab, most recently on September 21, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Thompson recounts that closing gastrogastric fistulas resolved diabetes in 60% of patients, while none resolved without closure.
“And where we closed the fistula, 60% of people had resolution to their diabetes. If we didn't close it, no one got resolution to diabetes”
Huberman Lab: Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson (Sep 21, 2026) · Listen from 1:45:00
Episodes
Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris ThompsonHuberman Lab · Sep 21, 2026 · 2 h 28 min
Andrew Huberman and gastroenterologist Chris Thompson discuss gut anatomy, fiber and the microbiome, GLP-1 drugs, early metabolic testing, gut permeability, and endoscopic and gene-therapy obesity treatments.
Chris Thompson on other topics
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- Ghrelin · 1 quote
- Intestinal permeability · 1 quote
- Insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome · 1 quote