The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast

Today on the podcast I have the pleasure of talking to Simon Mills, a complementary health pioneer from the inception of the term in 1979, and later in the fields of integrated health, selfcare and social prescription. He graduated from University of Cambridge with a degree in medical sciences and has been a herbal practitioner in Exeter since 1977. He was Special Adviser to the House of Lords Sel...

🎬 Watch the podcast on YouTube here 📱 Download The Doctor’s Kitchen app for free Today I’m welcoming back onto the podcast Dr Heather Mckee, the UK’s leading lifestyle behaviour change specialist and keynote speaker. She has spent over 10 years in academia studying what it takes to create habits that last and her work has been published in world leading research journals. Today we’ll be talking...

When I was at medical school the subject of Uric acid levels was typically paired with gout, high purine levels in the diet and one of the most ubiquitous drugs, allopurinol, which is used to reduce uric acid levels by inhibiting xanthine oxidase, preventing crystals that can lodge in our joints causing pain. But there is a lot more to do with uric acid than just gout as you’ll hear on today’s pod...

Dr David Unwin is on the podcast with Sakina today. Many of you will recognise him as the GP from the Norwood Surgery in Southport, who is a strong advocate of lifestyle medicine and a low carb diet.  To date 110 of his patients have achieved drug free remission of their T2 Diabetes. He is the RCGP National Champion for Collaborative Care and Support Planning in Obesity and Diabetes and a RCG...

On the show today, I catch up with Dr Uma, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, Professional Chef and Nutrition Specialist.  Uma has been on the pod before where we talked about nutrition, OCD and anxiety and on today’s episode we talk through practical tips on: hydration for mental health and some practical tips to drink more How her views evolved since writing her book “The Food Mood connection”...

🎬 Watch the podcast on YouTube here 📱 Download The Doctor’s Kitchen app for free Today I have not one but two urology consultants on the podcast! Dr Nish Bedi, who some of you may remember from the podcast we recorded a couple of years ago titled “eat for your bladder” and Dr Matthew Bultitude, a surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital in London. Today we’re talking all things kidney stones, a...

🎬 Watch the podcast on YouTube here 📱 Download The Doctor’s Kitchen app for free Eminent writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development Sir Jonathon Porrit is on the podcast today and I think it’s pretty apt that he’s being interviewed by one of new researchers here at the Doctor’s Kitchen, Sakina Okoko, who is part of the generation that will have to adopt mindful climate change...

🎬 Watch the podcast on YouTube here 📱 Download The Doctor’s Kitchen app for free Root cause medicine. It’s a term that gets banded around a lot, but on today’s episode you’re going to learn about exactly what it means. Complicated conditions like PCOS or autoimmune thyroid disease, actually have multiple causes and getting to the root of what is driving that process is essentially the aim of int...

🎬 Watch the podcast on YouTube here 📱 Download The Doctor’s Kitchen app for free I love a nudge and I love a framework. It appeals to my analytical mind, and as someone who loves checklists, finding a book with short daily nudges toward improved mindset, performance and purpose was gold.  Author of “The Daily Reset” is Dr. Steven MacGregor, Honorary Professor of Health and Wellbeing at the...

🎬 Watch the podcast on YouTube here 📱 Download The Doctor’s Kitchen app for free My guest today used to run the NHS. Lord Nigel Crisp was Chief Executive of the English NHS and Permanent Secretary of the UK Department of Health from 2000-2006. He now works and writes mainly on global health with a focus on Africa. Lord Crisp is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, an Hono...

🎬 Watch the podcast on YouTube here 📱 Download The Doctor’s Kitchen app for free Fasting as a tool for health is becoming a popular question whenever I do live talks. The interest in fasting is huge. We’ve done a dive into fasting with previous guests on the podcast, check them out on www.thedoctorskitchen.com/podcasts   And today, I talk to Professor Valter Longo and Dr Elizabeth Thompson...

Today I’m talking with tech entrepreneur and co-founder of the nutrition app Zoe, Jonathan Wolf. We dive into his story of starting in physics, moving into the world of tech during the tech boom and ultimately applying his knowledge of how machine learning works to the complex world of nutrition science. If you’re a podcast fan you’ll know just how convoluted nutritional science can be, the pitfal...

Today I’m talking to Prof Dame Clare Gerada about enabling our doctors and nurses to flourish and how to reignite the passion and bring the joy back into medicine. I learnt so much about Clare today. Her background living in Africa, her dad’s medical career and how she keeps going, working in the same practice for decades as well as her brave admission of how burnout affected her personally. Profe...

🎬 Watch the podcast on YouTube here 📱 Download The Doctor’s Kitchen app for free Dental health is often forgotten or simplified as a solely aesthetic pursuit.  Today’s guest tells us why dental health matters way more than we think and deconstructs some myths about oral hygiene.  Dr Victoria Sampson is a Dentist & Scientist, who was recently shortlisted as one of the most promising...

🎬 Watch the podcast on YouTube here 📱 Download The Doctor’s Kitchen app for free A multidisciplinary approach in cancer care is a positive and empowering experience where people can choose what they would like to be doing. Every tool and approach adds on to synergistically provide better support. This is what my guest, Dr Catherine Zollman, GP, medical director of Penny Brohn UK cancer charity ,...

🎬 Watch the podcast on YouTube here 📱 Download The Doctor’s Kitchen app for free Today I’m chatting with Dr Dani Gordon. Canadian, British and American Board Qualified Medical doctor and author of ‘ The CBD Bible ’ and the forthcoming ‘The Resilience Blueprint’ .  She has treated thousands of patients with medical cannabis, trained some of the first UK cannabis physicians and now runs a UK...

Today I’m chatting with Dr Anne Henderson, a highly experienced Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist who has spent 17 years as a senior consultant at a major acute NHS Trust, following undergraduate studies at Cambridge University Dr Anne is passionate about women’s health issues, particularly menopause and HRT, which is now a key health agenda. She has extensive experience in this area havin...

Food and Mood is the topic of the podcast this week where we’re talking about ‘Eating for Mental Health’ with Professor Felice Jacka, Director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University in Australia. Her book BRAIN CHANGER is all about how diet can save your mental health and tells the story of why we need to consider our food as the basis of our brain and mental health throughout our live...

You can  download The Doctor’s Kitchen app here . Whilst we’re taking a short break from the pod we’re re-releasing one of my favourite episodes from 2020 with the truly inspirational   Dr William W. Li. I had the pleasure of finally meeting William a few weeks ago and if you don’t know him, Dr Li is . An  internationally renowned physician, scientist, and author of the New Yor...

Today I’m speaking to Sheila Dillon. A multi award winning food journalist, reporter, and presenter for BBC Radio 4’s “The Food Programme” where she has worked for over 20 years.   Sheila and her colleagues have truly changed the way in which we think about food in the UK and beyond. Her work has covered the breaking scandal of BSE, the rise of GM foods, the growth of the organic movemen...

Download The Doctor’s Kitchen app here  Today’s episode is a part 2 to the episode where I discussed the studies used to create the Mental Health goal on the app. I specifically spoke about dietary patterns and nutrients related to supporting mental health as well as how we used this information to create recipes. On this episode I want to discuss our ability to listen to our internal organs...

Why do we sleep? It seems like such a luxury, an evolutionary oversight, a privilege some might say? But on today’s episode with Professor Russel Foster you’ll learn about why sleep is having a renaissance in both the way we think about it as a means to health as well as how the workforce should embrace it for enhanced creativity and productivity . Russell Foster is Professor of Circadian Neurosci...

Can when you eat be as important as what you eat? My next guest thinks so, and has spent his academic career studying the effects of circadian rhythm on everything from heart disease, exercise capacity, cognitive health and diabetes. Satchin Panda, PhD is a professor at The Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. His lab studies how circadian rhythm in metabolism is an integral part of metabolic h...

You can download The Doctor’s Kitchen app for free here. Modern work is defined by a relentless barrage of incoming messages and back-and-forth digital conversations. What this creates is a state of constant, anxious chatter in which nobody can disconnect. In addition to this inability to unplug, is a squeezing of our cognitive bandwidth to perform substantive work. The type of work that really ma...

Download the Doctor’s Kitchen app here. **Explicit Language warning** Why do families drive us mad? And can we ever aspire to create a family environment that is functional or ‘ideal’? To help explore these questions I have Julia Samuel MBE on the podcast today to help explain why there is no such thing as ‘the perfect’ family. And actually it’s through pain and even productive fighting that we ca...