Today on the Eat to Live podcast. Food addiction, you are a great person to talk to because you actually are very vocal and you've said this to a lot of people that you've suffered from it.

And it got to a point where it was so bad, I told dad I was listening to him and I told him I fired him as my doctor.

You also have deep regret the next day. Yeah. And while you're binging is is what happened to me, is I would think in my head I won't eat tomorrow.

But that's why I think education is so powerful because it gives people the power to make their own choices.

Yeah.

Yeah. Hey, Dr. Kara, thank you for joining me on the Eat to Live podcast. I'm really excited because today we're going to talk about strategies to resolve food addictions and how to kind of have freedom from food, how to have a life where you don't feel trapped by unhealthy food that are kind of living your life for you. So, Kerr, why don't you give us a little

definition about what food addiction really is and what to look for? I think it's really important

to understand that food addiction is a real neurobiological process. It affects the brain's reward system in a way

that's similar to drugs and alcohol. It causes a dopamine surge in the brain that wants more and

more. You can have a similar withdrawal where you need, or similar, like, effect where you need

more to get that reward, just like drugs and alcohol.

And you can also have withdrawal, like fatigue, brain fog, anxiety.

Food addiction is an addiction.

Yeah, totally.

That's, I think, something that people need to really understand and an important message to take home from this episode.

Mm-hmm.

And, like, alcoholism, do you feel like people have a genetic predisposition?

Yeah, potentially. I mean, I think a lot of it's environment. I think a lot of it's emotional,

just like alcohol. You know, usually alcoholics, a lot of that times that comes from a tragic thing

that happens in their life. And I think food addiction can be the same way.

Except dad always says this food addiction can be the same way. Except Dad always

says this food addiction actually is, it's a really hard thing to struggle from because food's

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