Hey everyone, Vancouver Radio, episode number 276.

Now, when we talk about nutrition, we often negate the world of medicine and medicine and nutrition kind of of these two separate entities,

but they do actually need to be closer together because if you think about some of the greatest discoveries in the world in terms of

prolonging health, combating disease, all that kind of stuff, we have to put that

thanks down to medicine and we quite often sort of palm off medicine when we focus on nutrition

and say well if you just focus on nutrition everything will be good. We're going to try and bridge that

gap today between medicine and food and well-being. bridge that Today's well placed to do that.

She's an incredibly successful person

in the kind of book space now with her first book.

She's an incredibly humble person.

Hazel Wallace, welcome to the show.

Thanks very much. I'm very excited to be on it.

You have done incredibly well with the book. It has been hard work because it has come off the back of you

training to be a doctor and kind of juggling all this stuff. Give me a bit of background

on the journey today and kind of bring the listeners into your

space of where you've been on this journey yourself. Okay so like you rightly

said I'm a doctor and I my first book has just come out and that's called a food medic which is also the name of my brand and my blog and everywhere you find me on Instagram etc. etc.

but I started my journey about five years ago now.

I was in my first degree which was Medical Sciences in South Wales and I was

coming to the end of my degree like everyone else where like most people kind of

falling into the trap of living the typical

union life going out in the weekends going out in the week and living off fast food I

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