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Seems more related to starvation than hacking.
by sombremesa 5y ago
Seems more related to starvation than hacking.
- juancn 5y agoYeah, or some form of diabetes. The body is great at making glucose out of pretty much anything, specially muscle and fat tissue. I don’t buy the diagnosis, there has to be something else on the metabolic side that’s missing if that were the case. Occam’s razor points to a psychological disorder, he went straight to psychiatric medication with no attempt to deal with the compulsive component of his behavior.
- jasfi 5y agoI have to agree with a psychological disorder, brought to a severe point by stress (note: I'm not a doctor or psychiatrist).
- HeadHonchoSP 5y agoI don't see how at any point a person can be so deprived of nutrients brain convulsions occur. Something had to be wrong before hand, maybe he should get his wife's side of the story.
- garganzol 5y agoThiamine (B1) deficiency can cause exactly that. It leads to mitochondrial disfunction depriving high-energy cells (mostly neurons) from ability to consume glucose via oxidation. As the result, a person develops insulin resistance that causes a swarth of consequences like an induced type 2 diabetes. If the situation with thiamine deficiency is not getting fixed, lactic acidosis proceeds as a dangerous side-effect of the backup metabolism path (anaerobic glycolysis) and gradually leads to progressive peripheral neuropathy including panic attacks (false hypoglycemia), burning sensations and numbness in the limbs and so on with ongoing neuro-degeneration. Not sure if this is the author's situation but he should be very warned.