Disordered Eating, Dubious Diagnoses, and Autoimmune Disease with Abbie Attwood
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Abbie Attwood discusses her journey through disordered eating and chronic illness, emphasizing the impact of wellness culture and the importance of self-compassion.
Nutritionist Abbie Attwood joins us to discuss how dealing with multiple autoimmune chronic illnesses led her down a path of dubious diagnoses and disordered eating, and how she ultimately found healing. We get into how disordered eating can trigger and aggravate chronic conditions, why she believed she had “adrenal fatigue” and “leaky gut,” and the role of obsession and OCD in orthorexia. We also talk about why it’s so easy to have your identity get wrapped up in disordered eating and chronic illness, how wellness culture preys on grief over physical limitations, the importance of self-compassion and how Abbie and Christy practice it, the prevalence of heightened sensitivity in IBS and other chronic conditions, how wellness-culture rabbit holes can lead to worsening symptoms, and the process of coming back to conventional medicine after a foray into the alt-med world. This episode was originally published in February 2025. We’ve removed the paywall, and this episode is now available for free thanks to our sponsors! For more free content, please don’t skip the ads :) Abbie Attwood (she/her) is an anti-diet, weight-inclusive provider with a masters in clinical nutrition. She is…
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