Hi kenki,
You're suggesting that we should limit our ice cream binges to just two bowls aren't you? lol
I don't know the answer but there are many drugs that seem to cause increased appetite.
I have similar things going on to those you describe. I'm hungry when I'm off and have trouble swallowing. ldopa takes away your appetite so I weigh less now than in high school... for all the wrong reasons. Another strike against the ldopa that allows me to breath, move and swallow.
I do try to increase my appetite and nortriptyline has propelled me to a whopping 117 lb...up from a frightening 113. So does nortriptyline increase grehlin? A google search is called for here.
I'll post if I find anything. Thanks for posting.
paula
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Originally Posted by kenki
This is potentially exciting:
I am referring the discovery at Yale University Medical School that high presence of Ghrelin the “hunger hormone” in the body is an indication that the body is fighting PD:
Apart from Parkinson’s link to Grehlin, a search using the term “role of Grehlin in voracious hunger” brings up a lot of results from Neurophysiologists and even a full blown conference of neurologists on the subject of hyperphagia.
I have been suffering from voracious hunger pangs hour before lunch or dinner almost to pathological levels. However unlike typical patients with hyperphagia, I have also lost serious amount of body weight from over 11 stone to a laughable 8 stone and still falling. Too much Ghrelin or too little? Should I eat indiscriminately as the signals from my hunger seems to indicate or do the opposite – not feed my severe hunger? Is there a test for measuring the amount of Ghrelin in circulation?
Any one knows?
I recall wondering if I had not gone on a “heart diet” (low fat and little alcohol) after my bypass which also put a stop to my recurrent gout, I would not have developed PD. As you know there are MJF funded trials on a drug Inosine that increases body URIC acid levels to see if it stops progression of PD.
A similar quandary has arisen with respect to Ghrelin & PD metabolism.
Kenki
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