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home:diseases:anorexia_bulimia [02.06.2019] – [Notes and comments] sallieqhome:diseases:anorexia_bulimia [08.12.2019] – [Evidence of infectious cause] sallieq
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 ====== Anorexia and bulimia ====== ====== Anorexia and bulimia ======
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-===== Introduction ===== 
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 Discussion in The Economist print edition 29 Sep 2005 Discussion in The Economist print edition 29 Sep 2005
 [[http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4455455|Molecular self-loathing]] [[http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4455455|Molecular self-loathing]]
  
-===== Management =====+===== Evidence of infectious cause ===== 
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 + The intrinsic ability of bacteria to regulate their growth and to maintain their population within the gut suggests that gut bacteria can interfere with molecular pathways controlling energy balance in the host. (({{pubmed>long:27616451}})) 
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 [[http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/uoc--rpn072109.php|New imaging technology]] at U.Cal. San Diego provides insight into abnormalities in the brain circuitry of patients with anorexia nervosa that may contribute to the puzzling symptoms found in people with the eating disorder. [[http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/uoc--rpn072109.php|New imaging technology]] at U.Cal. San Diego provides insight into abnormalities in the brain circuitry of patients with anorexia nervosa that may contribute to the puzzling symptoms found in people with the eating disorder.
 <blockquote>Under Kaye's leadership, the eating disorders treatment program at UC San Diego is developing treatments based on understanding the temperament and personality that drives anorexia, and helping patients to use such traits in constructive, rather then self-defeating ways.</blockquote>  <blockquote>Under Kaye's leadership, the eating disorders treatment program at UC San Diego is developing treatments based on understanding the temperament and personality that drives anorexia, and helping patients to use such traits in constructive, rather then self-defeating ways.</blockquote> 
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-===== Evidence of infectious cause ===== 
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- The intrinsic ability of bacteria to regulate their growth and to maintain their population within the gut suggests that gut bacteria can interfere with molecular pathways controlling energy balance in the host. (({{pubmed>long:27616451}})) 
  
 ===== Further Research  ===== ===== Further Research  =====
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 I had bad anorexia for a few months and it was a real struggle to stay on top of, but my apetite has now come back and is stronger than ever and I am am enjoying food like I used to when I was young  I had bad anorexia for a few months and it was a real struggle to stay on top of, but my apetite has now come back and is stronger than ever and I am am enjoying food like I used to when I was young 
  
-//Windflowersmiles// Fri Apr 11th, 2014 01:08   <del>NOTE Windflower</del> died in 2015, so can not get her permit+//Windflowersmiles// Fri Apr 11th, 2014 01:08  ( <del>NOTE Windflower</del> died in 2015, so i can not get her permit)
 I was bedridden almost completely for 1 1/2 years with very, very little activity (slept or lay in bed for days at a time, only daily activity was going from bed to couch, and to washroom, and back to bed.  Back then I would go to negligent family doctors office maybe once per month.  I was so ill I was unable to stand in the kitchen to cook an short easy meal.  If I tried I would pass out or almost collapse due to exhaustion, a combination of orthostatic hypotension, low blood sugar, and weakness due to anorexia and inactivity (I was barely eating for 1/2 years, losing 80 lbs over this time.  I was bedridden almost completely for 1 1/2 years with very, very little activity (slept or lay in bed for days at a time, only daily activity was going from bed to couch, and to washroom, and back to bed.  Back then I would go to negligent family doctors office maybe once per month.  I was so ill I was unable to stand in the kitchen to cook an short easy meal.  If I tried I would pass out or almost collapse due to exhaustion, a combination of orthostatic hypotension, low blood sugar, and weakness due to anorexia and inactivity (I was barely eating for 1/2 years, losing 80 lbs over this time. 
  
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