Night Eating Syndrome as Circadian-Affective Wrong Attractor: Nocturnal Hyperphagia as Displaced Distress Regulation, Sleep-Wake Boundary Erosion, and the Shame-Concealment Deepening Loop
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| contents | We apply the Displacement Framework to Night Eating Syndrome (NES), formalizing it as a circadian-affective wrong attractor in which food intake is phase-shifted to the wrong circadian window and serves a mood-regulatory function. The circadian-eating ground state S°_circadian is defined as a calibrated phase relationship between the circadian system, sleep, and hunger — not a rigid schedule but a biologically-appropriate temporal distribution of caloric intake with morning appetite present and nocturnal eating absent. The NES wrong attractor W_nes is triply maintained: evening/nocturnal hyperphagia (caloric intake at the wrong circadian phase), morning anorexia (reciprocal morning appetite suppression perpetuating the shifted pattern), and affective driving (evening negative affect regulated through eating — with elevated evening cortisol as the biological generator of evening D(ξ)). The sleep-wake boundary erosion component is formally modeled: nocturnal awakenings with eating create a ghrelin/leptin deepening loop (poor sleep increases appetite hormones, increasing the probability of further nocturnal eating). The metabolic Φ cost of eating at the wrong circadian phase — independent of total caloric intake, reflecting insulin insensitivity and lipogenic bias at night — is formally distinguished from pure caloric overconsumption. The shame-concealment loop deepens W_nes by blocking help-seeking. Nine formal propositions are derived. CBT (Allison protocol), sertraline (O'Reardon RCT), and progressive muscle relaxation for evening anxiety are formalized as return path interventions. |
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| spellingShingle | Night Eating Syndrome as Circadian-Affective Wrong Attractor: Nocturnal Hyperphagia as Displaced Distress Regulation, Sleep-Wake Boundary Erosion, and the Shame-Concealment Deepening Loop Rincon, Diego alice cloe night eating syndrome displacement framework wrong attractor circadian hyperphagia cortisol sleep mood regulation eating disorder obesity We apply the Displacement Framework to Night Eating Syndrome (NES), formalizing it as a circadian-affective wrong attractor in which food intake is phase-shifted to the wrong circadian window and serves a mood-regulatory function. The circadian-eating ground state S°_circadian is defined as a calibrated phase relationship between the circadian system, sleep, and hunger — not a rigid schedule but a biologically-appropriate temporal distribution of caloric intake with morning appetite present and nocturnal eating absent. The NES wrong attractor W_nes is triply maintained: evening/nocturnal hyperphagia (caloric intake at the wrong circadian phase), morning anorexia (reciprocal morning appetite suppression perpetuating the shifted pattern), and affective driving (evening negative affect regulated through eating — with elevated evening cortisol as the biological generator of evening D(ξ)). The sleep-wake boundary erosion component is formally modeled: nocturnal awakenings with eating create a ghrelin/leptin deepening loop (poor sleep increases appetite hormones, increasing the probability of further nocturnal eating). The metabolic Φ cost of eating at the wrong circadian phase — independent of total caloric intake, reflecting insulin insensitivity and lipogenic bias at night — is formally distinguished from pure caloric overconsumption. The shame-concealment loop deepens W_nes by blocking help-seeking. Nine formal propositions are derived. CBT (Allison protocol), sertraline (O'Reardon RCT), and progressive muscle relaxation for evening anxiety are formalized as return path interventions. |
| title | Night Eating Syndrome as Circadian-Affective Wrong Attractor: Nocturnal Hyperphagia as Displaced Distress Regulation, Sleep-Wake Boundary Erosion, and the Shame-Concealment Deepening Loop |
| topic | night eating syndrome displacement framework wrong attractor circadian hyperphagia cortisol sleep mood regulation eating disorder obesity |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20411766 |