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...ailing health and increasingly frail frame - which recently caused a dip in Apple stock - had reporters across the country scrambling for answers. What condition could cause the "hormone imbalance that has been robbing [him] of the proteins [his] body needs to be healthy" and result in such dramatic weight loss? And in what scenario would that condition entail a "nutritional problem" whose cure is "relatively simple and straightforward...
...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...
...Walter Willett, chair of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, agrees. "They don't fit together for me," he says, while adding, "Nothing is that simple." The two most common hormone imbalances that would result in weight loss, according to Willett, are hyperthyroidism, in which an overactive gland ramps up metabolism, and type 1 diabetes. But while nutrition may certainly play a role in diabetes treatment, it has little to do with curing hyperthyroidism, Willett says...
...many of the conditions that cause the body to lose vital proteins are not endocrine in nature. If a patient were losing the proteins through urine, diabetes could be an explanation, but so could other conditions, including multiple myeloma, a cancer that causes symptoms ranging from bone pain to weight loss...
...Monday, Jobs released a statement debunking the fears about his health. "I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors," he said in the statement. "After further testing, my doctors think they have found the cause - a hormone imbalance that has been 'robbing' me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy...