Bulgaria, Jamel: Affective-Endocrine Integration: The "Expand-Accept" Operator Fusion in Obesity and the Mechanistic Convergence of Therapeutics within the Core Emotion Framework

Clinical obesity is reconceptualized in this manuscript as a structural affective–endocrine disorder emerging from a chronic fusion of two Core Emotion Framework (CEF) operators: Expanding and Accepting. This maladaptive “Expand–Accept” fusion produces a passive coping metabolic phenotype characterized by boundaryless somatic openness and involuntary yielding, described in the text as “a boundless receptivity and a total relinquishing of somatic control.” This affective configuration disrupts hy