Episodes
Friday Oct 06, 2017
Before recovery vs. after recovery
Friday Oct 06, 2017
Friday Oct 06, 2017
In this podcast Tabitha answers questions about life before recovery versus life after recovery from Anorexia.
Topics covered include:
- Dining out
- Social life
- Feeling cold
- Eating with others
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Wednesday Sep 27, 2017
Defining Restriction. Defining Unrestricted Eating
Wednesday Sep 27, 2017
Wednesday Sep 27, 2017
In this podcast, Tabitha talks about restriction, and unrestricted eating. Restrictive eating disorders such as Anorexia are often misrepresented as total restriction and not eating. This is often not the case. Many people with Anorexia can eat seemingly "normal" amounts of food and still be operating under rules of restriction. The key is understanding that unrestricted eating is required in order to allow the brain and body to fully exit the Anorexia response.
Redefining how you think of restriction is often the key to understanding what unrestrictive eating means for you
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Wednesday Sep 20, 2017
Dr G: Tummy Troubles in Eating Disorder Recovery
Wednesday Sep 20, 2017
Wednesday Sep 20, 2017
Tabitha talks to Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani about all things gastrointestinal in eating disorder recovery! We talk about bowel movements, irritable bowel syndrome, delayed gastric emptying, and so much more!
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Thursday Sep 14, 2017
Thursday Sep 14, 2017
In this podcast Tabitha Farrar talks to Micheal Lutter about the recently published paper titled: Novel and ultra-rare damaging variants in neuropeptide signaling are associated with disordered eating behaviors
From the paper:
Abstract
Objective
Eating disorders develop through a combination of genetic vulnerability and environmental stress, however the genetic basis of this risk is unknown.
Methods
To understand the genetic basis of this risk, we performed whole exome sequencing on 93 unrelated individuals with eating disorders (38 restricted-eating and 55 binge-eating) to identify novel damaging variants. Candidate genes with an excessive burden of predicted damaging variants were then prioritized based upon an unbiased, data-driven bioinformatic analysis. One top candidate pathway was empirically tested for therapeutic potential in a mouse model of binge-like eating.
Results
An excessive burden of novel damaging variants was identified in 186 genes in the restricted-eating group and 245 genes in the binge-eating group. This list is significantly enriched (OR = 4.6, p<0.0001) for genes involved in neuropeptide/neurotrophic pathways implicated in appetite regulation, including neurotensin-, glucagon-like peptide 1- and BDNF-signaling. Administration of the glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist exendin-4 significantly reduced food intake in a mouse model of ‘binge-like’ eating.
Conclusions
These findings implicate ultra-rare and novel damaging variants in neuropeptide/neurotropic factor signaling pathways in the development of eating disorder behaviors and identify glucagon-like peptide 1-receptor agonists as a potential treatment for binge eating.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0181556
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Thursday Aug 31, 2017
Anorexia Fears: Using Migration Science to Explain Fear of Eating and Weight Gain
Thursday Aug 31, 2017
Thursday Aug 31, 2017
This week I speak to Shan Guisinger again, and this time we are talking specifically about fear in Anorexia. Fear of weight gain. Fear of eating more. How could a fear this great have possibly had an evolutionary advantage? Find out!
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Friday Aug 18, 2017
Anorexia recovery while managing a young family.
Friday Aug 18, 2017
Friday Aug 18, 2017
Recovery from Anorexia is often a time of heightened anxiety and stress. Managing recovery while looking after a young family is a reality for many adult sufferers. In this podcast Tabitha talks to an adult in recovery, Erin, about managing recovery with young children.
About Erin:
I am 36, and have lived in Colorado my entire life. I currently live in Highlands Ranch and have two children, 11 and 6. I have been married for 15 years. I studied sociology, philosophy and women's studies in college. I have struggled with issues around food and body image since I was a preteen. My eating disorder became severe at the age of 33. I want to help people of all ages, backgrounds, and weights understand that they can indeed develop this illness and that it is a life threatening disorder that needs to be taken seriously. I hope my experience can help others know they are not alone if they are struggling to recover while also being a parent.
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Wednesday Aug 09, 2017
Anorexia as an evolved genetic response to famine
Wednesday Aug 09, 2017
Wednesday Aug 09, 2017
In this podcast we talk about the Adapt to Flee Famine Perspective of Anorexia evolution with Shan Guisinger.
The Adapt to Flee Famine Perspective puts forward convincing evidence for the case that Anorexia is an evolved genetic response to times of famine. A migratory response that makes people with the genetic predisposition for Anorexia respond to energy deficit by wanting to exercise more and eat less.
You can find out more about Shan Guisinger here: http://www.adaptedtofamine.com/
Paper on The Adapt To Flee Famine Perspective: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14599241
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Wednesday Aug 02, 2017
Wednesday Aug 02, 2017
Just me in this podcast! Responding to questions that I get frequently around Anorexia recovery and weight restoration. How to know when you are really weight restored? Let me tell you it is not something that you can calculate via a math equation or estimate via looking on a height/weight chart.
Weight restoration is a process of gaining weight until you are within a healthy weight range (I recommend a BMI of 22 at least) and continuing to eat without restriction until you no longer fear further weight gain. This podcast fully explains my position on that weight restoration, target weights, and weight versus mental state restoration.
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Saturday Jul 08, 2017
The importance of recognizing Anorexia in people in larger bodies
Saturday Jul 08, 2017
Saturday Jul 08, 2017
In this podcast Tabitha Farrar talks to Dr. Rachel Millner about Anorexia and people in larger bodies. This podcast was inspired by an email from a mother of a patient who has Anorexia and is in a larger body. Topics discussed include:
- The dangers associated with energy deficit in people in larger bodies
- Problems with diagnosis and practitioner ignorance
- Weight stigma in the medical field
- Parent advocacy and strength
- Embracing weight diversity
Find out more about Dr Millner here: http://www.rachelmillner.com/
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Monday Jul 03, 2017
Challenging intake guidelines — Dr Graham Redgrave
Monday Jul 03, 2017
Monday Jul 03, 2017
Tabitha Farrar talks to Dr Graham Redgrave about the research done at Johns Hopkins looking into higher weights and a faster rate of refeeding patients with Anorexia in an inpatient hospital setting. The conversation includes:
- Refeeding intakes, traditional expectations versus new developements
- Problems with low target weights
- Relapse prevention programs
- Lower rate of relaspe for patients who reach higher BMIs in treatment
- The case for higher caloric intakes once the risk of refeeding syndrome is past
- What refeeding syndrome is, and research around this
- How and when treatment fails patients.
- Why we need to challenge the current guidelines pertraining to refeeding intakes
Link to the orginal study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25625572
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Monday Jun 26, 2017
Exercise Trackers, BMI, Obesity, and Anorexia Treatment
Monday Jun 26, 2017
Monday Jun 26, 2017
In this podcast Tabitha Farrar talks to Courtney Simpson about the work that she is doing looking at fitness tracker use amoungst people with eating disorders. We cover a lot of topics in this podcast that was originally about fitness trackers and the number of people with Anoreixa who use them to count calories and exercise.
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Monday Jun 12, 2017
Won't stop or can't stop? Science expolring habitual nature of Anorexia
Monday Jun 12, 2017
Monday Jun 12, 2017
In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar talks to researcher Kathryn Coniglio about the latest study exploring the habitual aspects of Anorexia Nervosa. In the paper titled, Won't stop or can't stop? Food restriction as a habitual behavior among individuals with anorexia nervosa or atypical anorexia nervosa, the intent behind restrictive behaviours was looked at.
Link to the original paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28388511
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Monday May 29, 2017
Dear Dietitian ... what we want you to know about treating Anorexia
Monday May 29, 2017
Monday May 29, 2017
In this podcast we hear from adults with Anorexia, parents of people with Anorexia, and dietiticans treating adults and children with Anorexia about their experiences with dietiticans in the field of eating disorders. This podcast is a mixture of Tabitha Farrar reading out notes sent in from listeners, and audio files from listeners that have been sent in.
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Wednesday May 24, 2017
Cynthia Bulik: Genetics of Anorexia Nervosa
Wednesday May 24, 2017
Wednesday May 24, 2017
In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar talks to professor Cynthia Bulik about the research underpinning the genetic locus for Anorexia Nervosa. In this podcast we discuss:
- Past and present research on the genetics behind Anorexia Nervosa and other eating disorders
- Implications for treatment
- Anorexia Nervosa and OCD links
- History of Anorexia Nervosa back to the starving saints
- Importance of parents and family support in eating disorders
- Anorexia and energy deficit
- Anorexia and money
- Genetics of Anorexia Nervosa
Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D., FAED, is Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is also Professor of Nutrition in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, and founding director of the UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders. She is also Co-Director of the UNC Center for Psychiatric Genomics. Dr. Bulik is also professor of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. She is passionate about translating science for the public.
Monday May 15, 2017
Hunger in Anorexia Recovery
Monday May 15, 2017
Monday May 15, 2017
Hunger is a fascinating and crucial topic in Anorexia recovery. Navigating hunger can be difficult when hunger signals are either nonexistent, sporadic, or unrelenting.
At times of under-nutrition, most people with restrictive eating disorders such as Anorexia experience a vast reduction in hunger cues — this is a very normal result of the body moving into starvation mode. When we start to eat in recovery, hunger signals can be all over the place! In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar gives some insight into hunger based on her own experience and also those of the people with whom she was worked.
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