Live on the edge, Dr. Nowzaradan – solospettacolo.it (web source)
One of the most popular faces of the Lives to the limit format has definitely put the legendary Doctor Nowzaradan to the test: here’s how he’s doing today.
The Iranian doctor was naturalized in the USA Younan Nowzaradan represents one of the most well-known personalities of the Real Time network and has covered numerous obesity cases in the States in the Vite al Limite format.
Specialized in Vascular and Bariatric SurgeryThe specialist promotes the slimming path of obese patients and works mainly at the Saint Joseph Medical Center in Houston, surrounded by a team of professionals.
Over the years, Nowzaradan has agreed to follow him Very complex cases, possibly leading to the death of the people involved. In fact, many of them have not maintained the progress made under the program, and the return to poor eating habits has often resulted in vital organ failure.
In the tenth episode of the tenth season of Life to the Limits, the doctor took care of him Margaret Johnson, then 35 years old and with an extremely impressive tonnage. The woman, originally from Baytown, Texas, initially weighed in 340 kilosand had to face a challenging psychological and behavioral path to eventually progress to gastric bypass surgery.
Who happened to Margaret from Lives on the Edge?
Margaret Johnson confessed in front of the cameras of “Vite al Limite” his unhappy childhood, shaped by a abusive and violent home environment. From an early age he developed an unhealthy relationship with food and resorted to systematic binge eating to compensate for emotional deficits. As the program revealed, Margaret and her sisters were often left to their own devices, unable to find food and recovering from it when possible downright destructive food exploits.
Young Margaret had also later suffered the death of her beloved aunt, and traumatic events added to her grief bullying episodes in his educational institution. At the age of 6, he had in fact exceeded the threshold of 120 kilos, with harmful consequences for his physique and blood values, dynamics that favored the development of a form of childhood diabetes. After an initial confrontation with Nowzaradan, Margaret agreed to submit to the doctor’s strict diet and, thanks to her willpower, she managed which disposed of 170 kilos required to address bariatric surgery.
Margaret Johnson, Live to the Limits – solospettacolo.it (web source)
Margaret’s life at the end of the show
Margaret and her mother Millie are rumored to have landed another engagement for the following season of Lives on the Edge, but have firmly declined a new Real Time adventure.
The woman, too, continued with her initial laudable intentions and continued to lose weight after the operation, albeit slowly. Margaret would still live in Baytown with her mother and dogs, and her goal is to do so become completely independent from parental care.