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What is Food Addiction?

The definition of Addiction means to feel as though one has an inability to stop doing something, even though it causes them harm or suffering.

Food addiction is when a person feels driven to eat certain foods such as processed and packaged junk foods, takeaway foods and foods in high fat/sugar, sometimes in large quantities, even though it makes them feel worse off physically, mentally and emotionally after eating these types of foods, yet they cannot seem to control or stop themselves.

Binge eating is also a form of food addiction. Emotional Eating can also be a form of food addiction. Other serious forms of food addiction include:

Binge Eating Disorder
Bulimia Nervosa
Anorexia Nervosa

Food addiction is a very real, sometimes debilitating struggle even in it's milder forms, particularly when someone is suffering with chronic mental or physical health problems as well, because certain foods fuel pathogens that are responsible for a persons chronic illness.

Anthony William, the Medical Medium® brought this information to light in the advanced medical and health text books Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic Illness & How To Finally Heal, Brain Saver, Brain Saver Protocols, Celery Juice: The Most Powerful Medicine Of Our Time, Cleanse to Heal, Liver Rescue

However there is a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation in the health world on the topic of food addiction and what actually causes it.

The Sugar Myth

All sugar is often lumped into one category and blamed as the cause of

someones addiction, when this couldn't be further from the truth. It's important to understand that not all sugar is the same. We need the right kind of sugar in our diets, it's what our bodies run on. Without glucose entering into the brain we would die. The brain isn't made out of fat as is commonly taught out there but is actually made predominantly out of glycogen, which is basically hardened sugar. Glucose depletion in the brain and liver is one of the main root causes why food addiction happens in the first place, which is explained below.

Refined and processed sugars are not the same as natural sugars found in fruit, potatoes, sweet potatoes, squash, starchy vegetables, raw honey and coconut water. The brain and body thrive on these natural sugars and they are critical for healing, health and wellbeing. Processed and refined sugars such as white and brown sugar, beet sugar, high-fructose corn syrup etc cannot be utilized in the body the same way, and can be found in packaged and processed foods high in both fat and refined sugar, such as cookies, cakes, donuts, chocolate bars, fast food etc.

The Real Causes of Food Addiction.

There are TWO main deep root causes of food addiction and binge eating, and the rest are triggers around these root causes that can cause a person to regularly binge eat, and to form an addiction to food, alcohol or any other substance. But the first two main root causes are always at play together.

Glucose Deficiency & Adrenaline Surge Dependancy are the two main deep root causes of binge eating and food addiction, including addictions to alcohol and other addictions too.

Glucose Deficiency can occur in the brain and liver when these organs are not receiving enough natural sugars from foods such as fruits, potatoes, sweet potatoes, squash, starchy vegetables and raw honey. This can happen when these important foods are restricted or abstained from in the diet.

As the body becomes depleted it's forced to use up it's precious glycogen stores (which is stored glucose) which can further deplete the body. Glucose deficiency can lead to persistent and intense cravings in order for the body to get it's glucose needs met, however we often attempt to satisfy these cravings with foods loaded with sugar and fat, such as cakes, cookies, donuts, crisps, chocolate, fast food etc which can fuel the problem and can keep a person in that addictive pattern until they begin addressing the root causes of the issue.

This lack of glucose sets the stage for developing an Adrenaline Addiction.

The adrenal glands have to release adrenaline into the blood stream when we're on high fat, high protein diets, when we consume foods high in both sugar and fat to help thin out the blood and protect your heart, when we vomit or purge food after a binge, or when we go too long without eating (adrenaline fills in to compensate for the lack of sugar in order to provide energy until we eat to give the body what it needs). Consuming caffeine (coffee, black tea, matcha tea, green tea, chocolate, cacao etc) also triggers an adrenaline surge.

These adrenaline surges are highly addictive, they can give someone a high and make them feel euphoric from the adrenaline rush, leading us to develop a dependency to it. Adrenaline can give us short term relief in the moment, but at the same time it's destructive in the body because it scorches the brain and nervous system, and weakens the liver and adrenal glands.

Most people are completely unaware they are addicted to adrenaline in this way. We usually think of extreme sports when we think of someone addicted to adrenaline, but adrenaline addiction happens across the board and is extremely common in our modern times. Adrenaline addiction is also at play in alcohol and drug addiction, addiction to sex, pornography, gambling and chronic anger for example.

The triggers surrounding these main root causes include:

Toxic Heavy Metals

Toxic heavy metals such as mercury, aluminum and copper saturating brain tissue can create a full blown addiction.

Pathogens

Pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, fungus, mould that are residing in the body feed on certain foods, what Medical Medium® coined as trouble-maker foods, such as eggs, dairy, gluten, corn, soy, canola/rapeseed oil. When these pathogens get hungry and want feeding they can send chemical messengers to the brain directing a person to eat these foods or foods that contain these trouble maker foods.

Nutritional Deficiencies (including trace minerals & mineral salts)

Nutritional deficiencies are often present with food addiction because the body is depleted in glucose already, and glucose is needed to transfer nutrients into cells. Diets high in fat and protein can lead to nutritional deficiencies over time also due the amount of fat present in the blood that interferes with glucose and nutrient utilisation and absorbtion. Diets low in mineral and mineral salt rich foods (think kale, spinach, arugula, mache, watercress, sea vegetables such as atlantic dulse, nori, kombu etc, fresh herbs, celery, cucumber, lemon, limes, microgreens) also leads to nutritional deficiencies. The can spur on intense cravings, including cravings for non food items.

Insulin Resistance

Most people struggling with an addiction to food are also dealing with insulin resistance. This stems from an overburdened sluggish weakened liver that can no longer digest and disperse fats as it should, that serves to protect the body from developing insulin resistance and diabetes in the first place. High fat and high protein diets are problematic because they further weaken the liver and thicken the blood which inhibits glucose from entering into cells along with nutrients the body needs to function.

Stress, Emotional Hardships, Trauma & Soul Wounds

During times of stress and emotional hardships the brain runs hot due to stress hormones being released. The body needs a high amount of glucose to cool down the electrical impulses firing off in the brain, and so the right kind of sugar is critical to help protect us from the negative effects of stress. Stress and emotional injuries can ramp up cravings for sugar, but because we often reach for the unhealthy sugars loaded with fat we deprive our brains of the glucose and nutrients it desperately needs.

Stored adrenaline and toxins within fat cells of the body that are tied to past emotional trauma and difficult experiences can also make it difficult to break addictive behaviours because we can use food to unconsciously try to suppress this. When we start to lower the fats and come off the junk foods we can experience those difficult emotions we were trying to suppress. When that old adrenaline is cleansed from the body we also release those difficult feelings

along with it.

Adopting unhelpful beliefs about food.

In the health world and on social media we're inundated with diet culture, health trends and traps and misinformation about food and how we should be eating. All of which creates so much confusion, division and feeling lost with food and what we should really be doing for our health. This can lead us into doing things for our health that can be harmful.

Anthony William, the Medical Medium® brought this information to light in the advanced medical and health text books Brain Saver, Brain Saver Protocols, Celery Juice: The Most Powerful Medicine Of Our Time, Cleanse to Heal, Liver Rescue