An animal-based diet combined with traditional therapeutic modalities could have prevented relapses for individuals with eating disorders.

“this is i think what the conversation that needs to be had that perhaps there's some value in the quality of foods and the intentionality around foods for these eating disorders and your case which is one case but i think it's an important case would also stand in contradistinction to the assertion that many in the mainstream space would make which is that restricting your diet with something like an animal-based diet is going to worsen eating disorders or cause eating disorders”

“i feel like that combined if if i had this sort of eating style in treatment combined with some of the more traditional modalities of you know group therapy working with some of the things that drew me to using food as its coping tool i feel like i probably wouldn't have relapsed as many times as i've had”

“if i express the way i eat to any sort of person that has had an eating disorder history or eating disorder um an eating disorder practitioner that helps other people through these sorts of things you know i i am praised if i you know eat a standard american meal and if i eat in a meal that is more animal based and less inclusive of you know those standard american foods it's like whoa that's eating disordered”

“in fact as you'll hear in this podcast there's good evidence that being intentional about your diet and cutting out foods that may inflame your gut or cause leaky gut or lead to neural inflammation through any one of those mechanisms may in fact be a massively powerful intervention for eating disorders”