Severe obesity causes more than 400,000 deaths annually and costs society over $2 trillion worldwide. Yet, a scalable, affordable, and easily accessible treatment remains lacking. The idea behind Sedivention is to develop a widely applicable interventional therapy comparable to gastroscopy.
Hunger is one of the main drivers of overeating and obesity. Hunger is transmitted to the brain via the vagus nerve. Sedivention is developing a cryoballoon that obliterates the vagus nerve from the stomach. This outpatient procedure takes approximately 20 minutes, costs significantly less than gastric sleeve surgery, and does so without the morbidity and complications.
In brief: Sedivention is developing the first effective and scalable treatment for obesity. No scars, no pain, no surgical complications, no barriers to access, no implants, and at an affordable price.
