Ketamine Therapy for Eating Disorders
Anorexia | Bulimia | Bingeing
in Oakland & Berkeley, CA
Eating disorders
You worry a lot about food.
You feel distressed, ashamed, or guilty about eating.
You dislike the way your body looks.
You aim for a sense of control — count calories, avoid certain foods, limit how much you eat, or throw up after eating.
If you eat too much or eat the wrong thing, you feel regret and shame.
How does ketamine therapy treat an eating disorder?
Treatment starts where you are. First we listen to your story. You are always in control and you decide what to talk about and what pace to proceed.
When you feel ready, treatment focuses on addressing the fears that underlie your disordered eating. This may be fear of food, weight gain, judgment, or something else. We gently explore recent experiences and also the ones from long ago, when you started worrying about food. We design a new experience using ketamine that will allow you to learn a new way of being — reprograming your nervous system to feel calm, safe, and at ease.
Fear plays an important role in the development and maintenance of disordered eating. Ketamine therapy gets to the root of the problem by rewiring the fear. We walk together through the darkness and recover your light.
We do more than ketamine therapy. If you feel trapped in a cycle you can’t control, if intrusive thoughts keep running through your mind, then micro-dosing a peptide may quiet food noise and help you feel at peace.
Research and my personal experience show that people with long-standing patterns of disordered eating may finally recover using this combined approach.
Patient treated with ketamine therapy for eating disorder at Dr. Zeus:
Anxiety scale shows rapid treatment effect lasting more than two years
Response to ketamine therapy in patients with a 10-year history of anorexia nervosa: Eating disorder scales show robust effect
Published research - Calabrese et al, 2022: Ketogenic diet and ketamine infusion treatment to target chronic persistent eating disorder psychopathology in anorexia nervosa.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-022-01455-x
Patient treated with ketamine therapy for eating disorder at Dr. Zeus:
Trauma response scale shows rapid and lasting treatment effect
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Treatment Styles
Ketamine injections
Ketamine nasal spray
At-home ketamine
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy
Peptides
Anti-depressant discontinuation
Somatic psychotherapy
Experiential psychotherapy