Type 2 diabetes, formerly known as adult-onset diabetes, mostly develops after the age of 35 to 40 and accounts for more than 90% of people with diabetes. What is it about surgery that can treat diabetes? Is gastric bypass surgery good for lowering sugar? How does laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery work? Laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery, as one of the more effective means of lowering sugar, is actually a minimally invasive method of laparoscopic navigation to optimize the structure of the gastrointestinal tract in diabetic patients. Because many diabetic patients gain weight, it is usually due to abnormal blood sugar caused by excessive intake or abnormal body absorption and metabolism. After laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery optimizes and improves the gastrointestinal tract, food intake, absorption and metabolism can be normalized, so blood sugar can be controlled. In addition to reducing sugar, it can also reduce weight: Generally, obese patients who have undergone gastric bypass surgery can lose 8-12 pounds within one week after surgery, and lose 60 pounds in 3 months on average. And as long as the obese patients lose weight to the standard range, they will not lose any more weight, and once the surgery can maintain the standard weight for the whole life without rebound. And more importantly, laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery is safer as a precise surgery. Generally, laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery takes only 60 minutes, and the entire surgery is painless and non-bleeding. You can get out of bed the day after surgery and be discharged from the hospital in three to five days. Gastric bypass surgery requires a high quality of surgeons, and only doctors with more experience in minimally invasive surgery and systematic training can perform it more satisfactorily.