Cachectic appearance

Cachexia is a syndrome that happens in people who are very sick with a chronic illness or serious disease. Cachexia is the medical term for unintentional weight loss, progressive muscle wasting, and a loss of appetite.

A number of treatment approaches have been evaluated ranging from diet to dietary supplements, to medications, but can be challenging as cachexia is more than just a lack of calories in the body.

Newer research suggests that exercise, though counterintuitive, may help.

This article will go over the causes of cachexia in people with cancer and other conditions.

Cachexia symptoms

It also covers how cancer cachexia can affect treatment and how the syndrome can be managed.

Causes and Risk Factors

Cachexia is a complex metabolic syndrome where the basal metabolic rate increases without compensation in calorie/protein intake.

Cachexia is dominated by catabolic metabolism (which occurs when digesting food). If you think of normal metabolism as the building of tissue and muscle (anabolic metabolism), the opposite is true with cachexia, which is the break

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