Do any of you guys regularly watch The Bumbling Biochemist on YouTube? I'm not a health professional, so I wouldn't be able to know if it's a medical condition or an ED, but her appearance has gotten quite concerning over the past year.
I dealt with an ED for the majority of my teen years. I do not get triggered very easily due to years of therapy, but I feel that her videos have reached the "triggering" category for impressionable young people that struggle with eating. Her primary audience seems to be students and early career scientists, and I'm sure many of them are women as well.
I truly hope that she's okay. I've watched her videos for a few years now, and she has been very helpful with lab methods. She's obviously not obligated to share any medical information with us, but if it is an ED rather than a medical condition, I hope she seeks the help that she needs.
I understand that she may not want her subscribers making posts like this, but if she's uploading videos of herself to her public YouTube channel, I don't think it's wrong to raise a concern. The US is a country where 1 person dies from an eating disorder every 52 minutes.
Edit: I did make a suggestion that if it is an ED, she should probably stop posting herself for a while, but I have since changed my views on that.