The world’s top scientists explain the latest health, nutrition, and gut health research and translate it into practical advice to improve your health & weight....
Recap: Strengthen your bones and avoid osteoporosis | Professor Tim Spector & Professor Cyrus Cooper
How strong is your skeleton? It’s a tough question - and often, we only find out the answer when a bone breaks. The reality is, many of us have weak bones. Osteoporosis affects one in four people over fifty, significantly increasing their risk of painful and debilitating fractures.
So, what can you do to keep your bones strong as you age?
Professor Tim Spector & Professor Cyrus Cooper explain how you can tailor your lifestyle to maintain a strong skeleton.
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📚 Books from our ZOE Scientists:
The Food For Life Cookbook by Prof. Tim Spector
Food For Life by Prof. Tim Spector
Every Body Should Know This by Dr Federica Amati
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Live Healthier: Top 10 Tips From ZOE Science & Nutrition
Gut Guide - for a healthier microbiome in weeks
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The truth about expiry dates, freezing food and vegetable scraps | Carleigh Bodrug and Dr. Will Bulsiewicz
We waste a shocking 40% of the food we buy. We throw away foods like carrot tops, beet greens, and spent coffee grounds. These ‘food scraps’ stuff our landfills and drain our pockets. But we can eat these foods and many of them offer tons of healthy nutrients.
Today’s guest is Carleigh Bodrug. Carleigh’s published a best-selling cookbook with over 140 recipes made from food scraps you might otherwise throw away. Her mission is simple: eat more plants. Her online community, PlantYou, has more than 10 million followers.
She’s joined by Dr. Will Bulsiewicz. Will is a board-certified gastroenterologist and ZOE’s U.S. Medical Director. He reveals the hidden nutritional value of these food scraps, and how ‘scrappy cooking’ can get you eating that all-important 30 plants per week.
You’ll walk away from today’s episode saving your money and the planet, all while eating more plants.
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Timecodes:
00:00 Don’t throw these away
01:39 Quick fire questions
04:06 Why we waste so much?
07:49 The truth about ‘best before’
09:39 This reduces your grocery bill
10:58 Why we need more plants
14:05 Which part of the food is edible?
16:12 The beetroot example
20:25 How to store food safely
23:33 Uncooked vs cooked food
25:09 What to do with coffee grounds
27:40 What is sprouting?
36:50 The power of aquafaba
39:07 No.1 most wasted food
40:02 Make the most of bread
45:33 The lost art of cooking
46:25 Carleigh’s 4 base meals
50:15 How to do meal prep
53:15 Soup: is it nutritious?
📚Books by our ZOE Scientists
The Food For Life Cookbook
Every Body Should Know This by Dr Federica Amati
Food For Life by Prof. Tim Spector
Free resources from ZOE
Live Healthier: Top 10 Tips From ZOE Science & Nutrition
Gut Guide - For a Healthier Microbiome in Weeks
Mentioned in today's episode
Carleigh's sprouting video will be coming soon!
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Recap: Boost health by defeating stress | Dr. Rangan Chatterjee
Stress can come from any direction. Mounting deadlines at work, a romantic tiff at home, even something as simple as missing our bus can send our brain and body into a state of tension. We all experience this, it’s nothing new.
However, our failure to manage this stress could be harming our health.
Dr Rangan Chatterjee is here to give us some strategies to combat stress, reduce tension and keep us healthy.
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The Food For Life Cookbook by Prof. Tim Spector
Food For Life by Prof. Tim Spector
Every Body Should Know This by Dr Federica Amati
Free resources from ZOE:
Live Healthier: Top 10 Tips From ZOE Science & Nutrition
Gut Guide - for a healthier microbiome in weeks
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5 years after COVID, what did we learn? | Dr. Tim Spector
The COVID-19 pandemic is in the rear-view mirror, so what did we learn about mask wearing, vaccines and prevention? And how can you stay healthy to face a future pandemic?
Professor Tim Spector, one of the world’s top 100 most cited scientists, looks back on the pandemic and what we learnt about symptoms, transmission and vaccines in the early stages. We’ll reflect on ZOE’s role - collecting data from millions of people on their symptoms, identifying COVID hotspots and shaping public understanding of the virus.
Then we discuss the possibility of the next pandemic, and how we can individually protect ourselves against it. By the end of this episode, listeners feel more equipped to stay safe in the face of another global pandemic.
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Timecodes
00:00 What did we learn from COVID?
01:44 Quickfire questions
04:22 ZOE's response to the pandemic
10:10 5 crucial days
14:06 How new symptoms were discovered
23:40 Did the virus come from a lab?
28:00 Were face masks worth it?
29:02 The data on lockdowns
36:01 The economic costs
37:50 Effectiveness of vaccines
40:04 Side effects of vaccines
46:10 Is there a cure for Long COVID
48:39 The role of food choices
51:24 How to fight off infections
52:30 The risks of junk food
📚Books by our ZOE Scientists
The Food For Life Cookbook
Every Body Should Know This by Dr Federica Amati
Food For Life by Prof. Tim Spector
Free resources from ZOE
Live Healthier: Top 10 Tips From ZOE Science & Nutrition
Gut Guide - For a Healthier Microbiome in Weeks
Mentioned in today's episode
The WHO estimates of excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic (2022), published in Nature
Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations (2023), published in Nature Reviews Microbiology
The role of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing post-COVID-19 thromboembolic and cardiovascular complications
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Recap: How to stop the rise of heart disease | Peter Attia
The heart is at the centre of everything within our bodies, constantly pumping oxygen and nutrients throughout our tissues and organs. We all know if our heart fails, we’re in trouble. However, we only tend to start thinking about the health of our heart when we encounter a problem.
So how do we prevent a problem from occurring?
Dr. Peter Attia joins us to explain how making changes to our lifestyle today can help us take control of our heart health tomorrow.
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📚 Books from our ZOE Scientists:
The Food For Life Cookbook by Prof. Tim Spector
Food For Life by Prof. Tim Spector
Every Body Should Know This by Dr Federica Amati
Free resources from ZOE:
Live Healthier: Top 10 Tips From ZOE Science & Nutrition
Gut Guide - for a healthier microbiome in weeks
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