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Overkillsamurai t1_iupiume wrote

  • Tumor scells eat up a lot of calories since they grow uncontrollably.
  • Decreased appetite because pain/nausea.
  • All the "good for cancer" meals are also just healthy in general. as is most "good for cancer" behaviours like sleep and exercise.
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pipeguy07 t1_iurg7l5 wrote

Chemo is a hell of a drug (regimen).

Foods don’t taste or smell the same. You have nausea. Bowel changes. You don’t have any energy - not even to snack - so you stay in one place. If you have bowel cancer and have a stoma, you are encouraged to eat small meals more often, and generally it causes you to eat less over time.

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Cuttingedge07 t1_iurikrq wrote

Cachexia - a result of abnormal glucose metabolism where in the cancer cells have increased uptake of glucose, thereby starving the host of nutrition, excess catabolism (due to increased cytokines released by the tumour cells).

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Cuttingedge07 t1_iuv5u40 wrote

Replying to Ok-Independence-6686 (#433,214)

Good question.

Well, cachexia is a wasting disorder, both muscles and fat are wasted,it increases insulin resistance, can also bring about increased platelet activation (thereby risking thromboembolitic events in future -> stroke-> death ) , can cause arrhythmias (leading to death). In short, Cachexia contributes to death. Obese individuals already have a higher risk for stroke, cachexia does only harm and no good.

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