Daily Medical Advices

It is known that anorexia is a social phenomenon, and therefore the ideal of beauty that prevails in the West exerts strong pressures on self-esteem and self-worth of many women (men, although to a lesser degree) that seek to shape the body through nutritionally deficient diets and in many cases acute malnutrition.

Fortunately, the campaign against anorexia have done their job. Anorexia we were talking about ten years ago is not as massive as it were, and although we should not lower the arms because the cases still exist in large numbers, believe that we are witnessing a process of modification of the ideal of beauty, which of course is still in its early stages.

In this context, the discovery that anorexia could be determined by genetic factors and brain malfunction is great news, promising new approaches and treatments to address this problem that could be standardized in order to treat it homogeneously.

Ian Frampton and colleagues at Great Ormond Street hospital in London have studied a group of 200 anorexic women coming to the conclusion that this disease begins to be generated in the womb to see that the neurotransmitters in the brain of these were damaged.

Has always believed that anorexia is the cause of brain damage due to malnutrition; this research, however, defends the view that it is the brain that generates the trend towards anorexia due to its damage, which would be genetically determined.

Obviously the implications of this study are great, as anorexia may be treated with chemicals that enhance brain activity and repair, a treatment that works much more short term than current treatments and could find the keys to get it over with for all with this global problem.