What you eat plays a huge role in influencing your microbial population. There are of course a host of other factors, excluding diet that can influence your microbiome, but for our purposes, think of it as a basic equation:
Bad food = bad microbial population in your gut = depression and anxiety, among other conditions. Good food = the opposite.
Dear Readers,
Please find below a brilliant webinar by Castlewood Team.
A new study, published by the journal of Psychosomatic Medicine, found new evidence of an association between the gut microbiota and the eating disorder anorexia.
Researchers (and more mainstream sources) are beginning to understand just how much impact our gut has on nearly everything in our body – including our brain. Since nearly 90% of the body’s serotonin is made in the digestive tract – what’s going on in your gut – may be causing what’s going on inside your brain.
Join Castlewood Team for an Exclusive Private Complimentary Webinar
Wednesday March 30, 2016
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CST
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The Gut “Brain” and Eating Disorders: Nutrition Therapy’s Role in the Healing Process
Presented By
Tammy Beasley, RDN, CEDRD
Tammy received her Bachelors of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics from Auburn University and completed her dietetic internship at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Tammy has been practicing as a registered and licensed dietitian/nutritionist with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics for thirty years, of which the last 24 have been specialized in the field of eating disorders. Tammy was the first RD to become a certified eating disorder registered dietitian (CEDRD) with the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals in 1993 and received her certification as a specialist in sports dietetics (CSSD) through the American Dietetic Association in 2007 (the first in Alabama). Her unique perspective on wellness, resulting from years of client consultations, led to the creation of the RevItUP! for Life program, designed for the chronic dieter to break through food guilt and stop the dieting cycle, which has been taught by RDs in over 27 states. Tammy is passionate about helping clients with all eating disorders learn to trust food and restore a healthy relationship with their own bodies again, and considers it a privilege to partner with the treatment team and the clients on their individual journeys. Tammy believes full recovery is possible, as evidenced in her own recovery from an eating disorder and the years of experience helping other clients do the same. During her career, Tammy has served in a wide range of positions to include outpatient nutrition services director for general and eating disorder-specific nutrition clients, nutrition director for an intensive outpatient program in Miami, Florida, adjunct professor at Florida International University and the University of Alabama in Huntsville, business owner of a private practice specializing in eating disorders, media representative for Alabama Dietetic Association, and national speaker on nutrition for eating disorders. In 2008, Auburn’s College of Human Sciences appointed Tammy to the Dean’s Advisory Board, and asked her to chair the new Advisory Board for Nutrition and Dietetics in 2012. After serving on the iaedp Certification Committee for four years, she stepped into the Director role in 2013 and her proudest achievement is the Commission on Dietetic Registration’s approval of the CEDRD Certification for all RDs in the field of eating disorders in June, 2015. In 1995, Tammy received the Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year award from the Florida Dietetic Association. She has served in many leadership roles for her local and state dietetic associations in both Miami and North Alabama, and is currently president-elect of the Alabama Dietetic Association. She was selected as ALDA’s 2007 Outstanding Dietitian of the Year, and received the Dietetics Emerging Leader award in 2010.
Learning Objectives:
Following this presentation participants will be able to:
- Explain and simplify the gut brain and hormone connection
- Translate and summarize the communication process between the gut brain, food and appetite
- Connect nutrition’s healing role within the gut brain during stages of eating disorder recovery.
