Mini Gastric Bypass Program
The middle ground of a Gastric Sleeve and Roux-en-Y Bypass, it reduces your stomach size and reroutes digestion to help you lose up to 100% of excess weight in just the first year with NV Health’s support.
Achieve significant and sustained weight reduction
Make the procedure effective long-term with 1-on-1 coaching
Starting from only $42/wk - book your free consult to confirm your eligibility, costs and options.
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Maximised Fat Loss
Personalised nutrition plans and health guidance for significant, lasting weight loss.
Increased Longevity
Forge a healthier body with reduced comorbidities to live a longer and happier life.
Reclaim your Life
Feel revitalised, sleep soundly, boost confidence, and fully embrace life with loved ones.
The Mini Gastric Bypass is a permanent, surgical weight loss procedure that is like an in-between of a Gastric Sleeve and a Roux-en-Y Bypass, offering a balance of effectiveness and simplicity. It reduces stomach size and reroutes digestion in a single anastomosis (connection),streamlining the benefits of traditional bypass surgery. This techniquel imits food intake, alters hunger signals, and creates a mild malabsorption effect, leading to significant and lasting weight loss. Like all medical interventions, success depends on sustainable lifestyle changes.
This surgery promotes weight loss through three key mechanisms:
- Stomach Restriction: A small, sleeve-like stomach pouch reduces food intake per meal.
- Hunger Hormone Reduction: Lower ghrelin circulation and higher GLP-1 and PPY response recalibrates appetite and satiety signals.
- Selective Malabsorption: A simplified rerouting of the small intestine reduces calorie and nutrient absorption for enhanced weight control.
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By combining these effects, the Mini Gastric Bypass not only helps control portions but also supports better metabolic balance, making long-term weight management more attainable.
This procedure is widely regarded for its powerful impact, balancing effectiveness with a simplified surgical approach. However, lasting results require a comprehensive strategy. That’s why NV Health pairs the Mini Gastric Bypass with a structured 24-month follow-up program, providing comprehensive nutritional guidance, personalised lifestyle coaching, and ongoing medical supervision to help you lose up to 100% of excess weight in the first year and maintain it long-term.
A proven pathway for addressing high-risk and morbid obesity that goes beyond the scales for enduring wellness.
Unmatched, Comprehensive Support
A Structured Program to Lifelong Health & Wellness
Assess Eligibility & Prime Your Success
Your journey begins with a free, no-obligation phone consultation with our Nurse Consultant, who will assess your unique needs and help you evaluate your best path forward for transformational weight loss.
If you’re a suitable candidate, you’ll have a comprehensive consultation with your surgeon to confirm your eligibility, discuss expectations, and plan your program.
- 100% free and fully bulk-billed initial consults.
- Comprehensive assessments to confirm suitability and eligibility.
- Personalised program plan, goal setting, and expectations.
- Compassionate super release assistance if applicable.
- Follow a special pre-op diet for 2 weeks to prepare your body.
Procedure
With advancements in medical technology, the Mini Gastric Bypass can be performed in as little as 45 minutes. The stomach is stapled seamlessly to create a long, narrow pouch, and the small intestine is looped and connected in a single join. Bariatric surgery is no longer the complex, open procedure it once was—today, the Mini Gastric Bypass is a streamlined, laparoscopic surgery performed through 3–5 small incisions, each smaller than a 5-cent coin, offering an effective and minimally invasive solution for weight loss.
- Undergo laparoscopic Mini Gastric Bypass surgery under general anaesthesia.
- A long, narrow stomach pouch is created and connected to the small intestine in a single loop.
- This procedure reduces stomach capacity and bypasses part of the small intestine, decreasing calorie absorption and resetting hunger hormones.
- Procedure lasts 60–90 minutes with a brief hospital stay.
Recovery & Modified Diet
The first six weeks focus on healing and gradually reintroducing food under guided supervision.
- Weeks 0–2: Post-surgery recovery. Strict liquid diet to allow stomach to heal, plenty of rest, and regular nurse check-ins to monitor recovery.
- Weeks 2–6: Can go back to work. Slow transition from liquids to pureed and soft foods under nurse supervision to ensure proper healing.
Nuclear Change - Build Big Habits
Now that you’ve healed and transitioned to normal foods, it’s time to lay the groundwork for your healthy lifestyle. During this stage, you’ll establish foundational habits that support rapid weight loss and lasting change.
- Master the 4 pillars of wellness: nourish, move, hydrate, and rest your body.
- Design your environment for lasting lifestyle changes
- Adopt structured, mindful, portion-controlled meal plans.
- Develop sustainable exercise routines and optimise sleep.
Atomic Change - Habit Refinement & Long-term Success
Having lost a drastic amount of weight and built a solid foundation, you now refine and optimise your habits. This phase ensures your lifestyle changes become near indestructible and you gain autonomy in being able to build and manage your healthy lifestyle and overcome any setbacks.
- Optimise and refine your nutrition, exercise, sleep, and hydration habits.
- Implement proven strategies to eliminate bad habits and reinforce good ones.
- Receive regular check-ins with your nutritionist, lifestyle coach, and nurse.
- Benefit from ongoing medical oversight to ensure long-term success.
An All-inclusive Program
Avoid the risk of relapse. Unlike clinics that just “do the surgery,” NV Health guides you through a full 24-month transformation to help ensure lifelong success.
Pre- and post-op medical support – Ensuring safety and success at every step.
Comprehensive nutrition and lifestyle coaching – Helping you lose weight and keep it off.
On-call bariatric nurse support – Get answers whenever you need them.
Access to weight loss psychologists – Optional but available for deeper behavioural support.
Effective medical supervision and monitoring.
2 years of comprehensive, multi-disciplinary allied health support.
This is why our patients engaged in the program can achieve a healthy BMI in as soon as the first year that’s sustained long-term.
Invest in your health without financial stress.
NV Health makes the mini bypass surgery accessible with flexible payment plans and superannuation access, so you can focus on your transformation without financial barriers.
Superannuation Funding – Eligible patients can access their super to cover the full cost.
Private Health Insurance Rebates – Check your coverage for potential cost reductions.
Transparent Pricing – No hidden fees. Free and fully bulk-billed initials.
Want to explore your funding options? Our team can guide you through the process and help you find the best way to invest in your health.
Frequently Asked Questions
The average inpatient stay is 2 nights.
Yes, a pre-op diet is required. Most patients will follow a 2-week meal replacement 'shake' diet. For those with a BMI under 35, our surgeons may recommend a 1-week diet. This diet aims to reduce liver size, minimizing surgical risks. Our dietitians will give detailed pre-op diet instructions.
Post-Gastric Bypass, a 6-week modified texture diet is required, designed by our dietitians. It includes:
- First 2 weeks: Fluids only.
- Next 2 weeks: Puréed foods.
- Final 2 weeks: Soft foods.
After this period, you'll slowly return to a normal diet, with gradually increasing portion sizes to aid in stomach healing.
Hair loss is a frequent occurrence, affecting about 75% of patients, usually three to five months post-Gastric Bypass surgery. It's often temporary, resulting from rapid weight loss, nutritional deficiencies, inadequate protein intake, hormonal changes, and stress from surgery. Most people notice hair thinning starting between three to four months after the procedure, but it typically resolves within a few months.
⇢ weight loss results are dependent on adherence to medical and lifestyle guidance. Details of expected results for individual circumstance and goals for each eligible program with will be evaluated and disclosed during your initial consultation.
¹ payment plans starting from $40/wk are for insured patients enrolled in a weight loss surgery program under a 5-year term.
² early compassionate release of super is dependent upon medical necessity and is at the ATO's and your super funds discretion for release.
³ unlimited support is bound by fair-use terms.