Let us hope that the Soho Grand's cocktails were more potent than those being hawked by the unscrupulous Swiss pharmaceutical giant. Alongside Michael Marco and TAG's wasting maven Tim Horn, Mark Harrington was in attendance. He prepared this report. The specific causes of AIDS wasting remain unknown. Triglyceride levels, cholesterol synthesis and total energy expenditure rise.
Body fat is preserved even while protein is depleted.
For reasons we don't yet understand, metabolic dysfunctions in HIV infection result in a refeeding paradox which drives energy from protein to fat. Both differences were statistically significant. Since the amount of absolute lean body mass among the study participants had not changed throughout the course of the study, Dr. Gorbach explained, all weight gained must have been in the form of fat. This may mean that people on protease inhibitors will need additional interventions to correct metabolic abnormalities, such as exercise, growth hormones or anabolic steroids, in order to restore lean body mass. The training consisted of three 45 minute weight training workouts per week, with the amount of weight being increased every two weeks.