Eating Disorders | Ep 2 | Decoding Nutrition with Tanmay Bhat | @tanmaybhat @Sidwarrier

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Anyway today's episode Sid is about the eating disorders.

Yeah, and what an appropriate host I am for this subject.

Let's start with the what is an eating disorder

and how does one develop one?

So eating disorders as a group have been diagnosed

very recently in the last 30, 40 years, but they've existed since a long time.

So the

names that you've normally heard about eating disorders,

you must have heard some anorexia, bulimia, Correct.

So those are the common ones that people have heard of.

So anorexia is, I think, a good

a good prototype to talk about eating disorders,

because anorexia, the word itself means

lack of hunger.

Orexia, Orexin is the hunger hormone

and anorexia is no hunger.

But the full name of the disease is anorexia nervosa

and so the lack of hunger,

because you are just nervous, not because of anything else.

So if you've had fever or if you've had COVID, you might have lost hunger.

You don't feel hungry if you are sick, Correct.

this is not lack of hunger because of that, this is lack of hunger

when there's no other apparent cause you’re otherwise okay.

Your body's fine.

There's no infection, there's no cancer, there's nothing else going on.

Why don't you feel hunger when you fall sick?

What's the connection between being sick and hunger?

So when you're sick, your body goes into acute stress response

and the simplest way to describe it is that when your stress levels rise,

that is not the time to eat.

Because your stress