Notime4lyme said...
I had some weight gain too with antibiotics. Some of it was that I was exposed take moldy environments, I think. I've heard that mold can cause weight gain.
Correct, except it's more than mold. It CIRS from any biotoxin. It involves leptin resistance. Weight gain doesn't happen in all cases of CIRS, but it happens. Here's a quote from Shoemaker about
it from an interview with Chris Kresser.
"Ritchie Shoemaker, MD: If you’re like most people with this illness, as MSH starts to fall, leptin can try to drive MSH, and leptin can rise, making people get heavy. And it does so by protecting fat stores so that the poor body — remember, someone is not feeling good. They got out of bed and tried to make a cup of coffee and had to sit down without even making a piece of toast or an egg or anything, and they try to do something more. They are now burning sugar until it’s gone. When they burn sugar up, they tell their body protein to break down into amino acids. Two of them, alanine and glutamine, are pretty quickly converted over to sugar. So the guy can get through a day, but he’s burned his sugar reserves and now he’s burning protein as well. He’s losing lean body mass, but he’s gaining fat mass. So this illness is now in a stage with reduced VEGF. Now we have metabolic processes. As MSH declines, so too does the level of beta-endorphin made when MSH is made, so we have chronic pain, chronic fatigue, and unexplained weight gain that will never go away."
https://chriskresser.com/dr-ritchie-shoemaker-on-chronic-inflammatory-response-syndrome/Here's a much clearer explanation along with a protocol to treat leptin resistance.
http://biotoxinjourney.com/category/cirs-protocol/Post Edited (WalkingbyFaith) : 10/15/2018 11:48:32 AM (GMT-6)