Emily Kwong

It's a great list, and one of those truths is about who has an eating disorder.

Who does this affect?

Let's talk about the physical impacts more.

And I want to move from the top down, from your head to your toes.

How do eating disorders change people?

And how does that feel in the mind of the person who has an eating disorder?

And, you know, thinking about the impacts, it's just so totalizing.

You're saying it affects every part of the brain.

Every.

But, you know, that should come as no surprise because how cells work is they need nutrients to sustain energy.

So what happens to the rest of your body over time if a person is malnourished through an eating disorder?

Yeah.

Let's talk about recovery.

I think a lot of eating disorders are first addressed within a family, right?

Families notice, oh, there's something not okay with my kid or with my cousin or with my sister.

And families...

can be patients' and providers' best allies in treatment.

So how should someone approach a loved one if they're seeing some of these physical and behavioral and cognitive signs that you're describing?

And part of treatment also is creating an environment for healing.

So, Eva, you were a part of a consulting panel for TikTok and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, on safety policies related to body image and eating disorders.