Eating Disorders, What We Knew Before and What We Know Now, with Alexandra Paul

Alexandra Paul wasn’t allowed sugar as a kid but she snuck it
anyway, not for the taste but for the comfort it provided. As a
teen, Alexandra’s modeling and acting careers were going great.
Her relationship with food, on the other hand, had become a real
mess. At boarding school, it seemed right and normal to deny
herself food in order to be as skinny as possible. The other
girls were doing it and no one ever talked about it as a
disorder. Over time, as she moved into modeling in New York City
and acting in Hollywood, the anorexia turned to bulimia and she
got hooked on the ritual of bingeing and purging. She’s stayed
away from that behavior for the last 30 years but still feels
like she could slip back if she’s not careful.


Dr. Jillian Lampert, who also dealt with eating disorders herself
as a young person, is the Chief Strategy Officer for the Emily
Project, an organization that treats and studies eating
disorders. She says there’s a lot of recent research indicating
that genetics are much more responsible for who will develop
eating disorders of all kinds than we previously thought. 


Alexandra Paul personal site 


Alexandra Paul IMDb page


Alexandra Paul Wikipedia


Alexandra Paul on Twitter - @alexandra_paul


The Emily Program - https://www.emilyprogram.com/


Dr. Jillian Lampert -
https://www.emilyprogram.com/about-us/leadership-team/jillian-lampert/

Reward sensitivity
article: https://jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40337-017-0138-2

Sensation and emotion study in
progress: http://eatingdisorders.ucsd.edu/research/our-research.html

Sensation
study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955712/

Another sensation
study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7230430/

Bodily sensations
study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29483865/
Sensation study looking particularly at
disgust: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6759364/

Broader study on interoceptive awareness (awareness of body
cues):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7927286/
Genetics and neurobiology:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21243469/


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