544. When Being Too Healthy Hurts You

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Our ever-increasing interest in health and healthy eating habits has a dark side: Orthorexia, which is an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. In today’s conversation, Jeff and fellow Commune Co-Founder, Jake Laub, discuss the predicament of knowing too much about how to be healthy — and how to walk a middle path versus going to an extreme.

In this episode we cover:
00:03:00: What is the difference between Orthorexia and Anorexia?
00:06:00: How does Orthorexia present in people?
00:09:00: The impact of stress around food
00:19:00: How do you distinguish a healthy relationship to wellness from an unhealthy obsession? 00:23:00: Possible comorbidities and roots of Orthorexia
00:34:00: How to look at health on a spectrum
00:44:00: What it means to be holistically well

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasnow.
0:11.7	Today on the show, I am thrilled to welcome my dear friend, my Commune co-founder and long-time business partner, Jacob Laube.
0:20.4	Jake has overseen the production of more than 140 courses now on the commune platform
0:26.0	and is also a yoga teacher and a former professional ballet dancer.
0:31.1	In our conversation, we explore the question, what happens when you know too much about
0:37.1	how to be healthy? And admittedly,
0:39.7	there's some irony here as commune is an online course platform for health and integrative medicine.
0:45.4	And I'm all too frequently doling out information about health here on the podcast. But this is not
0:51.1	a trivial matter. Millions of U.S. adults have some form of eating disorder
0:56.2	with approximately 1% suffering from a condition known as orthorexia, which is an unhealthy
1:03.8	obsession with healthy eating. And as with all psychological disorders, many of us are
1:10.5	somewhere on the spectrum. So
1:13.2	immersing yourself in health-focused content is, of course, a profitable endeavor, but you can
1:20.0	easily start thinking in terms of unending incessant improvement. If eating well increases health,
1:27.2	then you should be able to draw that line
1:29.5	out and up indefinitely, right? But focusing on one area of your health to an extreme can quickly
1:37.9	degrade other areas. For example, your social connections. Like sometimes I find myself not going
1:43.9	out to dinner with friends and having
1:45.9	that joyful connection because I know everyone will be gorging on pizza, right? So I've spent the past
1:52.8	five years reading books and interviewing guests on this podcast and every day I'm exposed to
1:58.2	someone telling me something new about what to eat, how to move,
2:01.1	what to think.
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