Cure8 research brief
Eating disorders and GI diseases frequently overlap and can worsen nutrition, symptoms, and disease management; recognizing this overlap helps patients and clinicians avoid missed diagnoses and get integrated care.
Patients with IBD, DGBIs, or celiac disease; caregivers and parents; gastroenterologists, psychiatrists/mental-health clinicians, dietitians; researchers in the microbiome and gut–brain fields.
This narrative review (abstract/full-text available) summarizes literature through early 2026 on coexistence of anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge-eating, ARFID, and orthorexia with GI diseases.
The authors describe a complex, bidirectional relationship driven by the gut–brain axis: chronic GI symptoms and medically advised dietary changes can trigger or mask restrictive or disordered eating, while primary eating disorders can cause GI distress and microbiome disruption that perpetuates inflammation and malnutrition.
The paper emphasizes diagnostic challenges (especially distinguishing symptom-driven dietary restriction from pathological eating behavior) and advocates multidisciplinary care involving gastroenterology, psychiatry/psychology, and dietetics to improve recognition and outcomes.
This is a narrative review (preprint/abstract record) that synthesizes existing literature to early 2026. It does not present a new clinical trial or primary experimental findings; recommendations emphasize multidisciplinary assessment and careful evaluation of dietary restrictions versus disordered eating.
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