Re: Cutting Disorder and Nutrition

[Guest guest]

There is a wonderful program called Radiant Recovery by Dr. Kathleen

DesMaisons that uses nutrition to heal biochemical addictive

behaviors, and cutting has a lot in common with all that.

www.radiantrecovery.com

(I have no financial interest in recommending this). Dr. DesMaisons'

premise is that there are some people whose bodies are predisposed to

biochemical imbalance, through heredity and then how we eat.

Basically we have lower serotonin and endorphins than the general

population, and more volatile blood sugar. This is for starters. And

then when we eat SAD, it all really disregulates.

What can happen with cutters is they find that cutting temporarily

raises endorphins and serotonin, and they feel better for a while.

Until the crash later and it starts again. This is both biochemical

and behavioral, and Dr. DesMaisons' program helps with both. Same

thing goes on with starving and purging.

And there's always the association of mental disorders with lack of

good fats, imbalance of o-6 versus o-3, and all that. So nutrition

plays there too.

Connie

> If anyone has information connecting this behavior with nutrition,

I'd also

> love to hear from you. So far, all I can find are some possible

connections

> to eating disorders such as purging. Thanks.

>

> Sharon