A free self-reflection checklist to help you recognize patterns of binge eating. This is not a diagnostic tool, but if several points resonate with you, it can be the first step toward understanding what's really happening, and toward reaching out for support. Take a few quiet minutes with this before you continue.

A woman with Binge Eating Disorder (BED) experiences recurrent episodes of uncontrolled overeating, mainly in the evening. She eats quickly, even when not hungry, and feels unable to stop. Afterward, she experiences guilt, shame, and distress. The episodes are often triggered by stress, anxiety, or loneliness. Unlike bulimia nervosa, she does not regularly use compensatory behaviors such as vomiting or excessive exercise.

Amino acid malabsorption is often blamed on missing peptides, but the real bottleneck is often iodide. Learn how iodine-supported gastric acid drives protein breakdown, peptide hormone release, and because you won't need peptides anymore (if they ever worked in the first place).

If someone told you they could defeat SIBO in a short time, they were simply talking nonsense. They might put you on a low-FODMAP, fiber-free diet, and your symptoms would disappear quickly—but only the symptoms. As soon as you start eating normally again, the bloating and discomfort return; after all, alleviating symptoms is one thing, but permanently clearing pathobiontic bacteria from the small intestine—or even the stomach—is quite another. Dr. Schirippa

As a dietitian, I've often encountered obese patients who tell me they don't have the willpower to resist certain foods. There's nothing psychological about this, and it's not a mental problem. You're just missing some trace elements that dysbiotic bacteria are depriving you of. I'll give you some examples of how intestinal candida deprives you of some essential metals. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Many other bacteria deprive you of many other substances.

You don't suffer from binge eating disorder or bulimia. You are simply malnourished, even though you eat a lot.

There is an intestinal bacterium normally found in the gut flora of people of healthy weight—those who do not suffer from food addictions or emotional eating and have lower rates of diabetes or hypertension. These individuals have rarely taken antibiotics throughout their lives. The bacterium is *Akkermansia muciniphila*, and one of the few substances that boosts its levels is the fiber inulin. This bacterium is directly linked to increased GLP-1 production, improved insulin sensitivity.

Emotional eating or Binge Eating Disorder, isn't just about willpower — it involves real physiological drivers, from cortisol to gut bacteria. Here's what the research shows.

If you have intestinal dysbiosis (and if you're here, you do), the foods you eat aren't completely broken down into simple molecules your gut can absorb. It's the good gut bacteria that help extract the nutrients you need. It's the good gut bacteria that produce most of the B vitamins, which protect the intestinal mucosa, which can produce serotonin and dopamine, hormones involved in satiety signals. It's the good gut bacteria that prevent irritable bowel syndrome and prevent further addiction.

If you fail to replenish the specific nutrients that bad bacteria or fungi are stealing from your gut—and, by extension, from you—your body will remain in a state of constant starvation, believing you aren't eating enough. But how can you tell what you are lacking? Intestinal pathogens typically deplete the same specific elements. Healing a malfunctioning gut takes three to six months, but unless you resolve the issue of overeating, you will never be able to heal. Dr. Schirippa

How intestinal inflammation and dysbiosis leave you malnourished, even if you eat more than you should.

The relationship between gut dysbiosis and trace element deficiency is one of the most clinically underestimated phenomena in modern medicine. When the gut microbiome loses its balance — through antibiotic use, poor diet, chronic stress, or infection — the consequences extend far beyond digestion. Dysbiotic bacteria actively compete with the host for iron, zinc, selenium, copper, and manganese, employing sophisticated molecular machinery to sequester these micronutrients.

Iodide (I⁻) is almost completely absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract, whereas iodate (IO₃⁻) is first reduced to iodide and then absorbed. In the digestive tract, iodate is reduced to iodide through reactions that generally involve glutathione. Once ingested, iodide is rapidly and almost completely absorbed in the stomach and duodenum, whereas iodate is reduced in the intestine and subsequently absorbed as iodide.

**Nutrition and Oncology: What the Science Says** For decades, cancer was considered primarily a genetic disease. In recent years, however, a line of research led by biologist Thomas N. Seyfried, professor at Boston College, has redirected attention toward the role of cellular metabolism. According to this theory, many tumor cells have damaged mitochondria and therefore depend on glycolysis and glutaminolysis for energy and biomass production.

Have you ever considered that there are plant extracts in nature with anti-tumor properties that can serve as excellent adjuvants—without side effects? Do you know what all these extracts have in common? Every single one of them? They act as antifungals, antiparasitics, antibiotics, and antimicrobials—substances like resveratrol or aloe vera, for example. But there are many others. Natural plant extracts with anti-tumor properties are used primarily for prevention and nutritional support.