Fonds Erasme de l’ULB

Project of Marie Delhaye supported by the Fund Jeanne & Alice Van de Voorde : 'The incidence of eating disorders in adolescence has been increasing since 2020. Many very fragile patients are waiting for specialized care. Anorexia nervosa is the most fatal mental illness (up to 10%). New, more effective treatment strategies need to be developed. We propose to evaluate the improvement of stress after 6 weeks of ingestion of colonic-released short-chain fatty acids, in correlation with changes in the blood metabolome'