Someone in recovery from disordered eating traces it to genetics, gut health, and trauma. They had a high ACE score of six, specific genetic variants affecting regulation, and intestinal permeability that disrupted gut-brain signaling. Early stress made food's soothing effect especially powerful.
And I'm fascinated by this because I'm someone who's in recovery from disordered eating. And I can definitely see in my SNPs that there's a particular pattern that you can identify. And a lot of ask you about it. Yeah, for sure. I mean, it's that combined with, you know, genes, intestinal permeability and then a trigger. So for me, I've got this genetic predisposition that sets me up for looking to food to change my state. And then you combine that with an adverse childhood experience score of 6. And there's a way that, you know, if you think about Stephen Porges and polyvagal theory, there's a way that the soothing that you experience with food, especially if you're someone who has a lot of stress related dysregulation as a child, you know, the way that you were breastfed versus bottle fed with formula that probably had sugar in it and.
