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There is no single reason why someone may develop an eating disorder. Eating disorders are complex and multi-factorial, but functional medicine can play a positive role in understanding those factors, and helping eating disorder recovery. The term 'eating disorders' in this post is referring to all eating eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, ARFID, orthorexia, OSFED, PICA and Rumination Disorder. Why do people develop an eating disorder

It is commonly known these days that many health conditions, including mental health, can run in families, either because we know our family history, or because research is beginning to identify certain genes risk factors. With mental health this includes depression, addiction, bipolar, autism and ADHD. Even eating disorders may have a possible genetic component. What we do know about our genes when it comes to mental health Certain genes have been identified that may influe