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Is it possible we are seeing it the wrong way, does anxio-depressive mood trigger you to go on sugar binge?

It’s important to point out that anxiety and depression aren’t one condition with one cause, they’re easy to diagnose symptom clusters. What helps some people with them likely won’t help everyone as there are many different underlying causes.

One cause has been suggested and researched that certain gut flora can manipulate your mood to cause you to feed them what they want. I.e. diet and mood can be codependent where the blame goes both ways.

Interesting, but even in the case of your example, one can interpret that lack of sugars can cause mood change, but not consumption of it as is claimed in the post.

To put it differently, causation is tricky to prove, presence of something causing an effect is quite different than absence of something causing it.

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