Jenke is starving - between ravenous hunger and severe weight loss: In order to find out for herself what effects eating disorders have on the body, Jenke von Wilmsdorff lives like an eating disordered person for his new experiment. Under medical supervision, Jenke will starve for weeks on end and radically lose kilos in the process. He will experience on his own body what it means to lose weight against all reason and to put his own health at risk. What drives people to do this? How harmful is hunger and how do the organs react? In therapy facilities Jenke meets young women with eating disorders and learns frightening details about the disease. For example, what tricks patients use to trick their doctors and their own bodies to lose even more weight and how they motivate each other in WhatsApp groups. However, a disturbed relationship with food does not necessarily end in anorexia. Behind "eating too much" is also an eating disorder. (Text: RTL)
