The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast

🎬 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...

Download the podcast recipe of the week . Precision Medicine is a hot topic. So to talk about this in a bit more detail with some one who is putting these new technologies into practice I decided to speak with one of the few integrative gastroenterologists in the world. Marvin Singh, MD , is the Founder of Precisione Clinic and one of only a few Integrative Gastroenterologists in the United States...

Download The Doctor’s Kitchen app here. We need to revolutionise our understanding of pain. Most of us hold on to the false belief that pain is a measure of tissue damage, a ‘detector’ of physical injury. But I’m speaking to Dr Monty Lyman who argues that pain is a ‘protector’ rather than a ‘detector’. Dr Monty Lyman is a medical doctor and research fellow at the University of Oxford and his first...

You can download The Doctor’s Kitchen app https://apple.co/3G0zC0Z for free to get access to all of our recipes, with specific suggestions tailored to your health needs and new recipes added every month. My guest today is health coach and former paediatrician Dr Orlena Kerek who works with many clients to help them lead healthier lives and teach their kids healthy living habits. This is going to b...

Download The Doctor’s Kitchen app here. Today I’m having a wonderful conversation with one of my good friends Dr Rangan Chatterjee . Many of you will know him through his best selling books, podcasts and TV shows and I’ve had the pleasure of watching him succeed through the arc of both his career and his personal life which talk about quite a bit today. You can tell when Rangan and I get together...

Download the app here . Today’s episode is all about how to strengthen your immune system and it’s epic. We chat about how the immune system evolves, how a strong immune system is determined by nutrition, stress and our environment, as well as practical tools, supplements and foods to strengthen your immunity. Dr Jenna Macciochi is an expert immunologist with over 20 years experience. She speciali...

You’re in for an amazing ride with Pam Warhurst CBE . If you don’t know her from the classic TED Talk “How we can eat our landscapes”, please do give it a watch. It raises the hairs on the back of my neck every time I listen to it. Pam is literally the most inspiring, enthusiastic and engaging speaker I know. And wow, she knows how to start a revolution through conversation. Pam has believed in th...

Download the Doctor’s Kitchen App here -  https://apple.co/3G0zC0Z Today’s deep dive is all to do with Mental Health. Forgive me if the initial part of this pod is a bit too basic, but I think it’s important to get the fundamentals right, give you an understanding of the mechanisms by which food can impact mental health, the current state of studies looking at dietary patterns and mental heal...

Today we’re talking all about why the most important molecule in your body, glucose, is a double edged sword and how flattening sugar levels in your bloodstream is key to less cravings, improved mood, better weight control and less risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia and depression. My guest is Jessie Inchauspé, (in chow spe) who is on a mission to translate cutting-edge science into easy adv...