Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine may be closer to knowing why.
Bulimia nervosa is a severe eating disorder associated with episodic binge eating followed by extreme behaviors to avoid weight gain such as self-induced vomiting, use of laxatives or excessive exercise. It is poorly understood how brain function may be involved in bulimia. A new study led by Guido Frank, MD, assistant professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Director, Developmental Brain Research Program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, studied the brain response to a dopamine related reward-learning task in bulimic and healthy women. Dopamine is an important brain chemical or neurotransmitter that helps regulate behavior such as learning and motivation. Frank found that bulimic women had weakened response in brain regions that are part of the reward circuitry.
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Comment: SOTT has been saying it for years. But as usual, the devil is in the details. Psychological well-being is closely tied to brain chemistry. And in order to break the vicious circle, there is a need to provide our body and mind with proper nourishment.
Gluten and dairy contain extremely harmful addictive opioids that lead to depression, nerve damage, seizures, migraines, etc., and promote or enhance addictive and damaging behavior. More so, one other big lie that has been propagated in our society for far too long, is that saturated or animal fat and high cholesterol cause heart attacks or other medical scares, while in reality it helps to stabilize the mood, decrease inflammation and protect the cells from damage or viruses. Low-carb high-fat diet not only brings the desired equilibrium to the body and brain chemistry, it reduces cravings and the resulting addictive behavior.