LONG TERM POSTIES: Vitamin question...

I have read here that after 2 years, our bodies pretty much totally compensate for the surgery -- the pouch & stoma relax and we can eat more, the bypassed intestine grows cilia and absobtion is more normal. The hope is that we've all established solid lifestyle cahnges and can be fairly "normal". My question is if absorbtion is back to normal, why do we have to take vitamin & calcium supplements forever? (Other than it's just a good thing to do anyway.) And along the same lines, dumping should no longer be an issue, right? Can anybody supply some info on this?

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