About Allurion

Allurion was founded in 2009 by Shantanu Gaur and Samuel Levy while they were studying at Harvard Medical School. Owing to their studies, Shantanu and Samuel started to rethink popular perceptions about weight loss. To better understand the journeys of people who were overweight or struggling with obesity, they did something quite unusual in modern day medicine: they started listening to their patients’ stories.

The two soon realised that ineffective diets were frustrating: their weight would return or they would struggle with the feeling of hunger and deprivation. It came as no surprise that many people were either afraid of traditional, invasive weight-loss surgery, or they simply could not afford the costly weight-loss solutions available.

Patients were seeking something easy and convenient—a treatment without the medical complexity that came with other weight-loss therapies. They expressed a desire for so much more than just a magic pill: they wanted a weight loss program that would empower them to make healthy choices that last a lifetime. They want to end obesity for good.

As Shantanu and Samuel started researching solutions, they imagined what has now become the Allurion Programme.

The Allurion Programme has already been used by thousands of people around the world and it is fast becoming a best-in-class solution.

Today, Allurion retains the original vision of its founders: to end obesity for good by catalyzing weight loss for life.