At SeeBeyond Medicine, we offer an innovative path to eating disorder recovery through our Enhanced TMS Protocol. Our physician-led program combines cutting-edge Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation with comprehensive functional medicine to address the underlying brain circuits that drive disordered eating behaviors without relying solely on medications or traditional talk therapy.
The Eating Disorder Struggle: When You’ve Tried Everything
Have you found yourself trapped in cycles of restriction, binging, or purging that feel impossible to break?
Are you exhausted from battling intrusive thoughts about food, weight, and body image that consume your daily life?
Has traditional therapy helped you understand your eating disorder but not fully resolve it?
Have medications provided incomplete relief or uncomfortable side effects?
Do you feel like your behaviors around food are driven by something beyond your conscious control?
If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, we’re here for you. Many people with eating disorders describe feeling “hijacked” by urges and compulsions that override their rational mind. This happens because eating disorders aren’t just psychological problems but also brain circuit disorders.
At SeeBeyond Medicine, we understand that the persistent nature of eating disorders often stems from disrupted brain circuits and electrical patterns. These disorders alter the communication between your brain’s reward system, emotional regulation centers, and decision-making networks. This is why chemical solutions like antidepressants can’t always fix what is fundamentally an electrical problem in your brain’s circuitry.
What is TMS Therapy for Eating Disorders?
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is an FDA-approved, non-invasive therapy that uses focused magnetic pulses to stimulate specific regions of the brain. For eating disorders, TMS targets the precise neural circuits that have become dysfunctional and contribute to disordered eating patterns.
Research shows that eating disorders involve disruptions in several key brain networks:
- The Reward Circuit: In eating disorders, the brain’s reward system becomes dysregulated. Food, body image, and weight become abnormally rewarding or anxiety-provoking, creating powerful urges that override rational thought. TMS can help normalize this reward processing.
- The Salience Network: This is your brain’s “switchboard” that determines what deserves attention and emotional response. In eating disorders, this network “places abnormally high priority on” food, calories, and body concerns. TMS can help recalibrate this system.
- The Default Mode Network (DMN): This network is involved in self-reflection and rumination. In eating disorders, it often becomes overactive, trapping you in cycles of negative body thoughts and food obsessions. TMS can help quiet this “rumination factory.”
- The Central Executive Network: This frontal area of the brain is responsible for self-control, rational decision-making, and emotional regulation. It’s often underactive in people with eating disorders, making it difficult to resist urges. TMS helps “turn up the volume” on this network.
TMS works by delivering precisely targeted magnetic pulses to these specific brain regions, helping to strengthen and rebalance the neural circuits involved in food-related decisions, body image perception, and emotional regulation. Over time, this helps reduce intrusive thoughts, diminish compulsive behaviors, and restore healthier eating patterns.
Why Our Eating Disorder Program is Different
Standard eating disorder treatment centers may offer therapy and medication, but they often miss the critical electrical component of these complex conditions. At SeeBeyond Medicine, we optimize your brain, not just treat it.
Our Enhanced TMS Protocol for eating disorders combines advanced brain stimulation with a comprehensive functional medicine approach to create the optimal environment for neural healing and lasting recovery. This physician-led program addresses both the electrical disruptions and the biochemical imbalances that drive disordered eating.
Our unique protocol includes four key components that set us apart:
Neurotransmitter Testing (Pre & Post-Treatment)
We measure your brain chemistry before and after TMS therapy to track real, measurable changes in key neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, and GABA—all critical for healthy eating behaviors and body image. This allows us to personalize your treatment based on your unique neurochemistry, not just generic protocols.
Calm IV Therapy
To enhance your TMS sessions, we provide specialized intravenous therapy formulated with magnesium and B vitamins. These nutrients support neurotransmitter production, reduce anxiety, and promote relaxation—creating a calming effect that complements the neural reset happening during TMS and helps quiet the overwhelming thoughts about food and body image.
Integrated Acupuncture Sessions
Research demonstrates that combining acupuncture with TMS significantly enhances clinical outcomes. This integration helps reduce stress, lower inflammation, and increase levels of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) which is a protein essential for creating new neural pathways. For eating disorders, this helps create lasting change in deeply ingrained patterns of behavior.
Health Coach Brain Health Sessions
Your journey includes personalized guidance from our health coach on evidence-based nutrition for brain health, mindful eating practices, and stress management techniques. These sessions address the practical aspects of recovery and provide the tools needed to maintain progress long after treatment ends.
Your Partners in Healing in NY and CT
Recovery from an eating disorder requires compassionate, expert care, and you don’t have to walk this path alone. At SeeBeyond Medicine, Dr. Lee and our specialized team combine evidence-based medicine with a functional approach that treats you as a whole person, not just a diagnosis.
We believe healing is always possible, and we’re committed to finding the root cause of your eating disorder. Our team listens to your unique story and develops a personalized treatment plan that addresses your specific patterns, triggers, and goals.
This comprehensive Enhanced TMS Protocol for eating disorders is available at both our Scarsdale, NY, and Greenwich, CT, locations. Our state-of-the-art clinics provide a private, comfortable environment where you can receive treatment without disrupting your daily life. Whether you’re struggling with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, or ARFID, our team provides the specialized care you need to reclaim control over your relationship with food and your body.
Is TMS for Eating Disorders Right for You?
Our Enhanced TMS Protocol may be ideal for you if:
- You’ve tried traditional eating disorder treatments with limited success
- You understand your eating disorder intellectually but still feel trapped by compulsions and urges
- You’ve had partial improvement with therapy or medication but haven’t achieved full recovery
- You experience obsessive thoughts about food, weight, or body image that feel beyond your control
- You want a non-pharmacological approach that addresses the neurobiological roots of your eating disorder
- You’re looking for a comprehensive treatment that targets both brain function and nutritional health
- You prefer a discrete, outpatient treatment option that allows you to maintain your daily responsibilities
At SeeBeyond Medicine, we provide Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) as a treatment option for eating disorders. This innovative therapy targets the brain circuits involved in compulsive behaviors and intrusive thoughts that often drive disordered eating patterns. Our specialized protocols are designed to help patients experiencing eating disorders by addressing these underlying neurological factors safely and effectively.
Begin Your Journey to Lasting Relief
Recovery from an eating disorder is possible. You can break free from the obsessive thoughts, compulsive behaviors, and negative body image that have controlled your life for too long.
At SeeBeyond Medicine, we understand that eating disorders are complex brain circuit disorders requiring a comprehensive approach. Our Enhanced TMS Protocol addresses the root cause of your disorder by rebalancing the brain circuits that drive your relationship with food and body image.
If you’re ready to discover a new path to recovery that goes beyond traditional treatments, our team is here to support you. Contact SeeBeyond Medicine today to book your consultation and learn if our Enhanced TMS Protocol could be the key to lasting freedom from your eating disorder.
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