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Dr. Joan Ifland, PhD, MBA, is a food addiction specialist—she literally wrote the textbook on Processed Food Addiction—and is widely considered to be the leading expert on the subject worldwide. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Political Science from Oberlin College, an MBA in International Finance from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a PhD in Addictive Nutrition from Union Institute and University.
Since 1996, Dr. Ifland has helped people recover from diet-related disease by focusing on addiction to processed foods. As both an academic and a front-line guide, Joan has taught thousands of compulsive eaters how to find peace with food and recover from diabetes, heart disease, cancer, depression, fatigue, isolation, and obesity.
In this episode, Joan shares her own personal experience with food addiction and the struggles she has faced with the disorder since she was a small child. She goes into the details of how her brain became addicted and how her behaviors reflected this reality. One day in 1996, at the prompting of someone she knew, she tried cutting out sugar and flour from her diet. What she experienced from eliminating these substances was miraculous!
Brian and Joan discuss the relationship between diet and mood, and the staggering 140 medical conditions associated with addiction to processed food. They also talk about the power of immersion recovery for healing the brain from a lifetime of food addiction, and the importance community support. Joan discusses practical steps you can take to reset your addicted brain by drilling index word-association cards, how to set achievable goals, and she explains the Addiction Reset Community.
Life’s Best Medicine According to Joan: “Community.”
Thank you for listening. Have a blessed day and stay healthy!
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