What do you recommend for patients who experience anorexia due to loss of appetite?

"But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness."- Hippocrates

A lot of preclinical work (Valter longo, Warburg etc) show he was probably right and the fact that tumors will preferentially have access to gluocse and proteins (ie PET scan-Warburg effect)

I would use steroids (dexamethasone or ...

I would take this question a step further and ask what to do about muscle loss, which in reality is the bigger issue. Fat loss may not be such a bad thing for many patients with prostate, breast, endometrial and other similar obesity-related cancers. Cachexia and muscle loss, which is usually the re...

I agree w/ @Dr. First Last. From experiences w/ fasting in general and its positive effects, very early data re: positive effects of fasting in cancer patients, decreased survival in certain scenarios with steroids like dexamethasone, and increased survival in head/neck cancer patients who lose weig...

- Short answer: Mirtazepine, Steroids, Zyprexa. The increasing prevalence of immune checkpoint inhibitors often pushes steroids way down on my list.

- Regarding medical marijuana, this is particularly dependent on the state where you practice. When I was in Florida, I found the laws inadequate even ...