In this week's episode, Hannah is joined by Anna Carnegie. Anna is a Research Fellow at KCL, where she coordinates the Eating Disorders Clinical Research Network (or "EDCRN") and lends support to the UK Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (or "EDGI UK").

Alongside her academic role, Anna brings her own lived experience of OCD, anorexia, and long-term recovery. She now uses that experience to shape research, advocate for better funding, and push for eating disorder studies that truly centre the people they’re supposed to help.

This week, we discuss:

• The huge funding gap in eating disorder research and why it matters
• What EDCRN and EDGI UK are, and how they’re trying to answer basic questions about “what works”
• Genetics, metabolism, and why there is no single “eating disorder gene”
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