Learning to Listen to Your Body with Nancy Zucker, PhD | MGC Ep. 63

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Nancy Zucker, PhD, is a clinician, researcher, and teacher at Duke University School of Medicine, where she founded and directs the Duke Center for Eating Disorders. Dr. Zucker is a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology and Neuroscience. She is the author of 131 professional publications, an author of the revised practice guidelines for the treatment of eating disorders from the American Psychiatric Association, and most recently her new book Treating Functional Abdominal Pain in Children. Dr. Zucker’s major clinical and research interest is in understanding how to help young people develop a healthy awareness of their bodies’ signals and learn how to match these to actions that allow them to flourish. In her new book, she Her research and clinical work has been featured on ABC’s “Nightline,” the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Time, and other major news outlets. The topics we address in this episode include: • What is the new approach you take in teaching young children about their body signals? • How does such early “body education” affect the prevalence of chronic abdominal pain and IBS in adults? • Does your approach benefit both the young patients and their parents? • What would the impact on our current healthcare system be if your approach were adopted widely?

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