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I'm your host, Will Amit, founder and CEO of WOOP, and we are on a mission to unlock

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Okay, this week's episode is a deep dive on nutrition

and how disordered eating can negatively affect

your body and your performance. Alison Lynch, our senior marketing manager of running and women's

performance, sits down with WOOP VP of Performance Kristen Holmes to detail her powerful

personal battle with anorexia and bulimia.

Allison shares how she overcame her eating disorders, what she learned along the way,

and explains just how critical good nutrition is for all athletes.

Kristen and Allison discuss how eating disorders are incredibly dangerous. They go into the

numbers on eating disorders. It's the second deadliest mental illness only behind opiod addiction.

Why the psychology of an eating disorder is similar to substance abuse, just how resilient your

body can be even when it's not getting the nutrients it needs.

What intuitive eating is and why they're big believers that it primes your body for peak performance

and how anybody can look at food and nutrition in a more positive light.

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