Device and method for reducing calorie intake

摘要

Devices and methods for substantially reducing the caloric efficiency of the digestive tract by capturing food being digested in the stomach 10 and/or anywhere else in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, absorbing or encapsulating the captured food into multiple capturing members and moving such multiple capturing members containing the ingestible encapsulated food down the GI tract, practically out of reach of the GI absorption organs, thus excluding the entrapped ingredients from being involved in the digestion and/or absorption process. The device is designed for oral delivery. The system can be comprised of liquid, food bars or a capsule system. The capsule system is comprised of an external capsule that dissolves in accordance with a temporal or ph dependent preset, which allows the food intake to be at least partially fluidic. The capsule system is further comprised of a mechanism designed to capture and isolate a portion of the food being digested.

主权项

1. A method for containing a volume of gastrointestinal (GI) tract content, the method comprising:
dissolving a capsule in the GI tract, wherein the capsule contains a plurality of expandable structures; releasing the plurality of expandable structures into the GI tract, wherein the release is caused by the dissolution of the capsule in the GI tract, and wherein the releasing comprises expanding internal and external volumes of each of the plurality of expandable structures; and opening a self-opening barrier of each of the plurality of expandable structures, wherein the opening of each self-opening barrier is caused by the expansion of the respective expandable structure, and wherein opening a self-opening barrier of each of the plurality of expandable structures comprises sucking GI tract content into each of the plurality of expandable structures.