A discussion of the etiologies and diagnostic evaluation of unintentional weight loss, including the distinction between weight loss and cachexia.

I’m very sorry that comments are now turned off as of May 2020. Unfortunately, the comment section has been spammed ~5x a day for months with “weight loss secrets”, posted by idiots not even bothering to notice that this video is about unwanted, pathological weight loss. It became too frustrating to manually delete each one. Grrr…
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Last week I talked about the many ways exercise is awesome. This week I want to focus on one way it’s not. Weight loss. Sorry, but that’s the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage.

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