apple.com — ?Fortunately, after further testing, my doctors think they have found the cause?a hormone imbalance that has been ?robbing? me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy. Sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis.?
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chrismusafJan 5, 2009
That's the same thing he said on stage when he gave his blood pressure. So basically, it's STFU until I'm ready to maybe tell you something more.
kibibytebrainJan 5, 2009
But its really not good news. He shouldn't have had to respond to rumors about his death when really all he had was a nutritional problem. The media should be ashamed of itself.
dillingersmoothJan 5, 2009
The world is a better place with Steve Jobs in it. Get well soon!
darthdallasJan 5, 2009
where is my Gordon rant now when I need one...
cjmikeJan 5, 2009
Those would all be relatively easily diagnosed and they dont completely fit.Thyrotoxicosis (Hyperthyroid) would show easily on testing for most causes. The increased thryroid hormones could cause the skinniness! If it was that significant onset (it was pretty decently fast!) then perhaps he would have a goiter? Adrenal Insuff would have decent amount of other problems as well, so I would think they would be seen also. Being that he had a pancreatic tumor in the past, my guess is that he has hyperglucagonemia. The pancreatic alpha cells produce glucagon and perhaps his cancer is related?Pancreatic cancer is often fatal and hard to get rid of completely, especially if not caught early. He wants family time, he's leaving apple, he wants to enjoy LIFE before there isnt much left is my guess... I say he should enjoy!
johnnysoftwareJan 11, 2009
I am not sure why Wall Street analysts have been hammering away at Apple over Steve Job's weight loss.It's not like fatness or skinniness played any kind of a role in the dump their own industry - their employer and the subject of their writing - just took on our whole economy. If it did, I overlooked any astutely auguring analyst's articles of angst on that subject.By contrast, Apple has made a great deal of money for quite a few years in a row and is continuing to do so.My first thought when I read a Wall Street analyst's article where you can all but see him wringing his hands over the jeopardy a company is in is, "so his firm is buying that stock right now, right?". And when they start talking about how great a stock is, I'm already asking myself, "so they already bought this company's stock and now they want to sell it at the highest possible price?".That said, it sounds like the pandemonium the analyst's raised over the head of Apple's precipitous weight loss in 2008 motivated him and his doctors to put their heads together and find the cause.It probably did not help investors that analysts they look toward for advice apparently incorrectly linked the weight problem directly to cancer, no doubt hyping a sell off of Apple stock by average Joes. An act I am sure that said analysts' firms were only too happy to take up the slack on and are now sitting on some handily obtained profits thanks to the fear they inspired.Looks like we know what is on the agenda for 2009. Apple will continue to make great products. And Wall Street will - well, keep doing what it has been doing.
breakaway11Jul 15, 2009
I would think they'd have something else better to talk about than his weight loss.<a class="user" href="http://www.lose30inthirty.com">http://www.lose30inthirty.com</a>