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i struggle to keep my weight down. Is there anyone with ME who doesnt have problems with keeping weight off or putting weight on??
i struggle to keep my weight down. Is there anyone with ME who doesnt have problems with keeping weight off or putting weight on??
I guess but the population at large when they decide to fix their weight Issues it's generally easier. I think for many of us cfsers have a harder time due to mitochondria dysfunction, hormone dysfunction and insulin resistance that all seem to feed off each other.Ah, wouldn't your question aisply to the population at large?
GG
I found this a while ago when looking up leptin after Lipkin said about finding it upregulated in the telephone transcript or whatever it was....interesting reading I thought...it's a link I don't know how to open it up for people.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014579304013894
I found this a while ago when looking up leptin after Lipkin said about finding it upregulated in the telephone transcript or whatever it was....interesting reading I thought...it's a link I don't know how to open it up for people.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014579304013894
I guess but the population at large when they decide to fix their weight Issues it's generally easier. I think for many of us cfsers have a harder time due to mitochondria dysfunction, hormone dysfunction and insulin resistance that all seem to feed off each other.
A few friends I have, non cfsers having their midlife crisis seem to be able to change things quite easy with just a sensible diet and exercise. Just isn't as easy with cfsers.
Lol I have been low carb for years. Its the best way for me to eat but have to be very strict with very little carbs to lose weight. It does control appetite well. If I didn't have cfs and ate like I do now I would be a lean mean fighting machine, maybe? Still can't get down to my pre cfs weight.I lost 40lbs rather easily by following the Ideal Protein diet, unfortunately I have put a few pounds back on recently, but had kept it off for at least 1 year!
GG
Might not be about the levels of leptin but more to do with our leptin sensitivity similar to insulin and insulin sensitivity??It's important to remember that average leptin levels were within normal ranges for the patients. No one even mentioned weight levels related to leptin that I remember.
The findings that were significant from Montoya's study is that the levels changed in sync with the fatigue levels of 7 of the 10 patients that they studied for 25 days. Leptin levels increased in close correlation with fatigue levels, and decreased the same way.
Dr. Younger talked about leptin being on average 3 times higher in women than men, it can suppress appetite, and that it is extremely inflammatory. It's not something that can be easily manipulated, as it is connected to many, many parts of the body. It affects the microglia of the brain, and neurons related to pain, fatigue, and "sickness behavior" (physiological, not psychological).
It didn't seem to me that they know why this happens. But they're searching. Maybe others can add their interpretations of some of these talks.