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...their phones began lighting up - Dr. Robert Lustig, an endocrinologist at the University of California at San Francisco, said he had fielded a dozen calls by midafternoon - medical experts nationwide postulated myriad reasons for Jobs' withered appearance: a thyroid problem, a deficiency of human growth hormone or perhaps the lasting effects of Whipple surgery (which involves removing portions of the stomach, pancreas, bile duct and small intestine, and can inhibit digestion), which is a common treatment for pancreatic cancer. The last theory seems to be the leading one at this point (Jobs had surgery to remove a pancreatic tumor...
While many of these explanations are possible, no diagnosis neatly accounts for the scarce information provided in the letter. "[It] doesn't make a lot of sense," says Lustig. "There are three medical threads that run through this e-mail, but unfortunately those threads don't make a very strong cable." No illness involving a combination of a hormone imbalance and a loss of proteins that causes dramatic weight loss could be remedied with a simple nutritional fix, Lustig says...
...cause in their 70s than are adults who were of normal weight as youngsters. Early evidence also suggests that heavier children are even 35% more likely to develop cancer in their later years. "If you are a fat kid, you know you're in trouble," says Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatrician at the University of California, San Francisco, "and you know you need to do something about it now and not later...
...steroid use the first baseman pretty much copped to in Congressional testimony. As Ken put it in an email to me, "he broke not only a baseball law (as did Gaylord Perry, for instance) but a federal law." A federal law such as underage drinking at Scott Lustig's house...
...know everything that went on at Scott Lustig's, but I do know that certain people may have drank more of a fermented barley drug than was good for them. That certain person is me. Ken was a reasonable...