Ep 76: Why you don’t have to be underweight for your fertility to be compromised with Dr. Gaudiani

Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD, CEDS-C, FAED, 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. Dr. Gaudiani served as the medical director at ACUTE Center for Eating Disorders prior to founding the Gaudiani Clinic, which is a Denver-based outpatient medical clinic that offers telemedicine throughout the US and is dedicated to caring for people with eating disorders, disordered eating, and malnutrition. Dr. Gaudiani’s first book, Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders is available on Amazon. In this Episode The gap in doctors identifying and diagnosing eating disorders Defining Relative Energy Deficit in Sport (RED-S) Identifying the body systems impacting by undereating How to distinguish between healthy behaviors and ED behaviors Why women in their 40s are at a higher risk for developing an eating disorder Is full recovery from an eating disorder even possible? Why some women lose their period, and others do not The shocking statistics of EDs among patients seeking fertility assistance Connect with Lindsey: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@‌food.freedom.fertility⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.foodfreedomandfertility.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: @lindseylusson