What causes weight loss?

Because abnormal diet, insufficient nutrition intake, eating disorders, and indigestion can cause people to lose weight. Severe cases can affect eating, leading to gastrointestinal inflammation and cramps. There are many factors that cause weight loss. In addition to these, you can also gain weight through dietary intake, which can not only cope with malnutrition, but also alleviate many problems caused by weight loss.

Causes of symptoms

1. Insufficient food intake

1. Loss of appetite

Many chronic or acute diseases are often accompanied by loss of appetite and gastrointestinal diseases, especially chronic liver and kidney diseases. Loss of appetite is also closely related to neuropsychiatric factors, anorexia nervosa is an example.

2. Eating disorders

Inflammation of the oral cavity and pharynx affects eating, while inflammation of the esophagus and gastrointestinal tract, spasms, tumors, etc. cause obstruction or nausea.

2. Gastrointestinal dysfunction

1. Digestive disorders

Diseases of the stomach, intestines, pancreas, liver, and bile duct lead to a decrease in the secretion of digestive juices and enzymes, causing food digestion disorders and resulting in weight loss.

2. Malabsorption

Primary malabsorption syndrome is caused by defects in the small intestinal mucosa, which affects the absorption of nutrients. Secondary malabsorption syndrome may be caused by obstruction of bile excretion due to biliary obstruction, hepatitis, etc., or by reduced secretion of pancreatic digestive enzymes due to chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer, etc., resulting in fat absorption disorder. Small intestinal lesions such as intestinal tuberculosis, localized enteritis and gastrointestinal surgical resection can all cause malabsorption. Patients with hypopituitarism and chronic adrenal cortex insufficiency often suffer from weight loss due to malabsorption and loss of appetite.

Weight gain method:

Chinese medicine believes that physical illnesses are mostly caused by poor spleen and stomach function and insufficient Qi and blood. The spleen is the foundation of acquired constitution and the source of Qi and blood production. If the spleen and stomach are healthy and Qi and blood are abundant, the muscles will be plump and the limbs will be strong. On the contrary, the body will become thin and the limbs will become weak. To treat thinness, you must first rule out various chronic diseases such as hyperthyroidism, liver disease, kidney disease, and tumors. Then use Chinese medicine treatment, there will be very good results

Thinness test

Whether a person is fat or thin cannot be measured by just looking at him or her. You can use the following formula to calculate whether you are a little thin: subtract 100 from your height in centimeters and multiply by 0.9. The answer is your standard weight. If a person is 180 cm tall, the standard weight is (180-100) × 0.9 = 72 kg. It is normal to be 10% below or above the standard weight. If your actual weight is more than 10% lower than the standard weight, you should consider whether you are underweight.

Special reminder

Generally speaking, being underweight is related to genetic factors. At the same time, some people who are easily excited can accelerate calorie consumption due to endocrine influences. Some people tend to be nervous, which may result in missing a meal or loss of appetite. It is natural to lose thousands of calories at a time, but this will definitely not cause weight gain.

If you find that you are underweight or too thin, you should first check whether it is a potential cause of illness. Diseases such as thyroid, diabetes, adrenal glands, and digestive system diseases can easily lead to being underweight. Only after ruling out disease can a weight gain plan be implemented.