Biomarkers are increasingly meant to foretell actual patient experience (if left untreated). Biomarker screening thus ends up creating a serious dilemma for the patient with an eating disorder. Here, we take a closer look at how someone with an eating disorder might navigate biomarkers.
Read moreHypercortisolism and Its Presence in Patients With Eating Disorders
Hypercortisolism (or Cushing’s syndrome) is sometimes present in those with an eating disorder. This state can occur either during active restriction or in the early phases of re-feeding.
Read moreDiabetes Mellitus Type 2, Metformin, Disease Risk and You
Metabolic anomalies are common during recovery from an eating disorder and therefore the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus type 2 and treating it using metformin comes up enough in discussion threads on the Eating Disorder Institute forums that makes sense to synthesize the material here.
Read moreMeet Your Treatment Team
Understanding how to pull together a treatment team as an adult looking to reach remission from an eating disorder or to manage an active state while maximizing quality of life and minimizing complications.
Read more“I can’t stand the sound of people chewing!”
Misophonia, Tourette's, eating disorders, OCD...they have so much more in common than you might think possible. If these conditions coexist then it doesn't mean "comorbidity", rather it means commonality and leveraged options for regaining quality of life too.
Read moreDear Doctor: Your patient has an eating disorder.
Eating disorders are mostly invisible. They are also great deceivers: able to mimic all manner of common chronic conditions and ailments. Some patients may have been told they were cured in their teens, but many more will have never been treated for an eating disorder at any time in their lives. So it won't occur to your patient that the cause of their symptoms is an eating disorder. Given the prevalence of eating disorders, here's a primer on how to identify them as a physician.
Read morePart II: What Does BED Really Look Like?
Second of two parts looking at binge eating disorder BED and its inclusion as a standalone eating disorder in the DSM-5 and what this means for those sure that bingeing causes BED.
Read morePart I: Binge Eating Disorder & Conflict of Interest
First of two parts looking at binge eating disorder BED and its inclusion as a standalone eating disorder in the DSM-5 and what this means for those sure that bingeing causes BED.
Read moreGaining Weight Despite Calorie Restriction
The reality of gaining weight despite calorie restriction is dogmatically put down to a lack of control and not adequately ensuring the calorie restriction is consistently in place. Trouble is, the science thoroughly disproves that dogma.
Read morePart II: Systematic Review of Weight Gain Correlates In Literature
A multi-part series to look at the scientific literature in depth on the topics of obesity onset and perseveration. Part II: Inactivity
Read moreObesity Science In Context
How the scientific literature on obesity is regularly misinterpreted.
Read morePart I: Systematic Review of Weight Gain Correlates In Literature
A multi-part series to look at the scientific literature in depth on the topics of obesity onset and perseveration. Part I: Food Intake
Read moreHomeodynamic Recovery Method, Doubly-Labeled Water Method Trials and Temperament-Based Treatment
A closer and updated look at the Homeodynamic Recovery Method in relation to temperament-based treatment and calorie intake guidelines.
Read moreOrthorexia II: Doubt and Certainty
The level of organization and investment necessary in our health care systems when we instigated massive immunization and inoculation programs in the first half of the 20th century were very successful in developed nations. But of course now we have massive health care systems left in the wake of that effort...
Read moreTummy Troubles
I will not be able to address all the facets of this topic completely, but I must touch on them in some way because nothing is more difficult to navigate than the presence of both identifiable symptoms due to food intake and an anxiety disorder...
Read moreObesity Basic Facts II
Not only is obesity not a disease; it does not cause disease. In fact, it is very likely that becoming fat (i.e. the fat organ increases in size) is the body’s protective response to the appearance of chronic disease for completely distinct and far more complex reasons than burgers and couches...
Read moreObesity Basic Facts I
As soon as it is roughly understood that a body can maintain its weight and it’s not seen as a theory as in “theoretically, faeries could exist”...
Read moreZinc Supplementation for Eating Disorders
Supplementation: not unless your medical team says so and even then you may want to discuss with them that such interventions are based on very narrow clinical trial data...
Read moreInpatient Underfeeding
Patient underfeeding in hospital settings is rife and particularly dangerous when a patient is actually admitted due to underfeeding in the first place...
Read moreExtreme Hunger Part 2: The Experience and Science
As with the ever-present fear that the metabolism “is broken” many in recovery experience the disconnections between hunger, physical fullness and emotional satiation and worry that the entire energy balance system is “broken” as well.
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