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The Free Man

#316 - Nutrition from a Doctor's perspective with Dr.Aileen Alexander

The Free Man

Ben Coomber

Self-improvement, Education, Science, Natural Sciences, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

There are a growing number of Doctors who are becoming aware of the power of nutrition and exercise as preventative medicine, and ex BTN student, Aileen Alexander of ThisDoctorLifts is one of them. In this short episode she chats about her thoughts on the state of nutrition education for doctors and what she's done to improve the situation in her own practice.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Ben Krimber Radio. I'm not going to lie I don't know why I thought this is so we'll just pretend and I'll assume that you guys have read the number on the show anyway

0:10.2

But this is another Tom show so So welcome, enjoy the sound of my voice.

0:15.0

Today I've got with me the lovely Eileen. She is an ex-BTN Academy student and she's also a doctor.

0:20.0

So hopefully we might learn some things that I don't know to do which is

0:24.0

all it's going to be really cool. The reason that we've got Eileen on is

0:28.2

just because obviously we've got a new academy that's launching really soon.

0:31.6

For anyone who's interested it it starts on May the 20 seconds.

0:35.3

So you do have a little bit of time.

0:37.3

And I've got to see it.

0:38.4

If you haven't seen it on social media,

0:40.0

please do check it out,

0:40.9

because we've got some really cool ship plan for you.

0:43.3

But we thought it would be useful for you guys

0:45.9

to hear a little bit of perspective from a BTN student

0:48.8

because it can be a little bit sort of mysterious. You don't really know what happens on the academy, but not only that, you don't know what these people who come to the academy, what do they do? What are the various sort of walks of life that they come from because we don't just

1:05.9

teach PTs so I would like to sort of introduce Eileen and just say first of all

1:10.8

hello please introduce yourself tell us who you are what do you do and

1:15.2

and anything else that you think we'd like to know.

1:17.8

Awesome thank you so much for having me on so as you can tell I'm from Scotland up north of East Scotland and I'm predominantly a

1:26.8

doctor. I trained medicine in Aberdeen. I graduated five years ago now and I'm now working as a GP register. I wanted to learn more about nutrition, but being a doctor

1:38.9

we didn't have much time on my hands. I had thought about doing an MSC, but it all seemed like an

1:46.8

awful lot of work and for a little game. I actually got in touch with Alex Manos, which is how I heard originally about the Academy. He's a great

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