Why most eating disorders and disordered eating go unnoticed with Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani

Today’s guest is Dr. Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD, CEDS, FAED. She is the Founder and Medical Director of the Gaudiani Clinic. Board Certified in Internal Medicine, she completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard, medical school at Boston University School of Medicine, and her internal medicine residency and chief residency at Yale. From 2008 to 2016, she was one of the leaders of the ACUTE Center for Eating Disorders at Denver Health. She left after serving as its Medical Director and as an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine to found the Gaudiani Clinic, which provides outpatient in-person and telemedicine medical care to patients of all genders with eating disorders and disordered eating and to those in recovery.

The Gaudiani Clinic is a HAES®-informed provider that cares for people of all shapes and sizes. Dr. Gaudiani has lectured nationally and internationally, is widely published in the scientific literature as well as on blogs, is a current member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Eating Disorders and the Academy for Eating Disorders Medical Care Standards Committee and is a former board member of iaedp.

Dr. Gaudiani’s book Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders was published in 2018 and is available on Amazon.

In this episode, we talk about the fact that all bodies react differently to restrictive eating and why eating disorders come in all shapes and sizes. In fact, most people that struggle with disordered eating are in straight-sizes bodies and larger bodies, which makes seeking treatment very complicated.

This episode will be SO helpful for you if you feel like you may be struggling with disordered eating but you are not in a body that you feel “looks” disordered.

We also talk about how to raise children and protect them from diet culture as much as possible and instil a positive body image.

Can’t wait to hear what you think!

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Links mentioned in this episode:

Dr. Gaudiani’s website: www.gaudianiclinic.com

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