Wise Mind Nutrition

If you’ve ever wondered why “just eat more mindfully” never seemed to work for you, this research might explain it.

A 2026 study interviewed 16 adults with bulimic-spectrum EDs, all with ADHD or high ADHD traits. What they described wasn’t a lack of discipline. It was a nervous system doing its best with the tool it had — using food to regulate emotion, fight understimulation, and create a sense of something steady in a noisy internal world.

And then, often, that strategy stopped being a choice. It became a loop.

The takeaway isn’t that ADHD causes EDs. It’s that the two get tangled together in ways most treatment models don’t account for — and people end up feeling broken when the real issue is a mismatch between their brain and the protocol.

Comment “Unified Theory” and I’ll send you an upcoming paper I co-authored that goes deeper into why this matters for treatment.

The eating disorder world and the food addiction world are in conflict. People in recovery are paying the price.

You’ve probably seen it. One camp says “all foods fit, the cupcake IS the recovery.” The other says “ultra-processed foods broke my brain, abstinence saved my life.”

Both hold truth. Neither alone is enough.
And while professionals argue their viewpoints, people are left trying to figure out what’s actually safe for their own body.

A new paper just named the obvious: this polarization isn’t a side effect of the crisis. It IS the crisis. The only winner is the food industry.

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A Knowable Magazine piece this week landed on something I’ve been saying for years: the comfort in comfort food is mostly in your head — and that’s actually really good news.

It means we have more agency than we think. It also means we don’t have to wage war on the foods that carry our memories. We just need a wider toolkit.

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Article credit: Debbie Koenig, Knowable Magazine, 04.27.2026

The more we learn about the gut microbiome, the more complex we become. Once thought only to regulate our GI function, we are now learning it influences our dopamine, interoception and reward circuits that are central to eating disorders.

Swipe to see what the latest science shows - that could profoundly change treatment moving forward.

When you think of you your favorite foods, what are they?

So many of our choices have been unconsciously influenced by outside forces. We see this in the food industry all the time. The foods we “like” and “crave” have been designed to be that way.

But we can rewire our brains to crave and like foods that are more nourishing to our bodies and soul.

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Some say food is fuel, we say food is medicine.

Food is one of the most powerful tools we interact with every day.

It can calm inflammation, support gut and brain health, stabilize blood sugar, and shape how we feel in our bodies.

When we start using food intentionally, it becomes medicine.