Interventions for eating disorders can target thinking patterns, behavior, homeostatic processes, or reward systems.

“So, as we talk about different drug based interventions or behavioral interventions or social interventions, I'd like you to think about whether or not those interventions are breaking into, or tapping into this box of the thinking, the sort of pattern of thinking around food, whether or not it's the behavior, the actual ingestion or the restriction of food, or whether or not it's tapping into the homeostatic process, the balance of energy systems and kind of getting enough, but not too much, or it's tapping into the reward system.”