What is the Brain & Body Connection Behind Eating Disorders?
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
With the unrealistic standards of beauty we are bombarded with in society, it's no wonder so many people suffer from eating disorders. But could it be that many of the causes of eating disorders are based more in biology than sociology? In the second part of "Love Your Brain " series, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen describe conditions in the brain and body that may lead to eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aaman. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Tanna Aaman. Here we teach you how to win the fight for your brain to defeat anxiety, depression, memory loss, ADHD and addictions. |
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| 0:49.6 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. |
| 0:53.0 | So we are back. |
| 0:55.0 | We are talking about Love Your Body Week, |
| 0:57.0 | and today we're going to talk about some heavy subjects, |
| 0:59.0 | eating disorders, and these are very painful for people who have them. Really hard, a lot of stigma |
| 1:05.2 | attached to it, a lot of shame and we really want to end that. I mean we've done |
| 1:08.6 | several things now on it because it's such a big topic. So we're going to talk about bulimia and anorexia. |
| 1:18.0 | In the next segment we're going to talk about obesity, but there are other eating disorders like nighttime |
| 1:26.7 | eating disorders and you don't want to eat late at night. There's a dipper complex if you eat two hours before bad your blood pressure doesn't dip. So |
| 1:39.2 | normally say you eat it at six or seven o'clock at night and you don't go to bed till 10 or 11, |
| 1:45.0 | what happens is because you don't have a lot of food in your body, |
| 1:49.0 | your blood pressure will drop and that's healthy for you. |
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