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What's Eating Steve Jobs?
Jobs wrote that his nutritional problem was “relatively simple and straightforward” and that he expected to regain his old weight by late spring, an analysis Morley said was consistent with hormone imbalance. “All of these are easily treatable either with dietary manipulation or taking a tablet each day,” he said. “For adrenal disease, you give steroids, for B12 you give back B12, for celiac disease you cut the things that are causing the problem out of your diet.”
Of course, it could just be that the years are catching up on the overworked Jobs, who turns 54 in February. “The alternative is he's just getting old, his male hormone is getting down,” Morley said. “But that won’t give you diarrhea, so he probably would have something along with it. I think most likely he fits somewhere into the cluster of endocrine disorders.”
For their part, investors appear satisfied with Jobs's explanation for his ill health: Apple stock rose 4.2 percent yesterday after news of his condition was reported by the Wall Street Journal.
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He may just to have to give up being a vegan.
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