#335 Saliva Tests, Poop Cameras, Digital Coaches and What the Future of Health Looks Like with Lara Lewington
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Even though I’m a skeptic I love health tech. I wear a wearable, I play with red light therapy gadgets and I monitor my bloods more regularly than a lot of my peers. Rather than being overwhelmed with the data, I thrive in it, and I’m able to reasonably weigh up the information from all these inputs because of my experience of being a medical doctor for over 15 years.
But with so much health tech interest, the landscape has become confusing and it can be hard to separate health from hype.
So we’re chatting to Lara Lewington today who’s covered some of the world’s greatest innovations, presenting the BBC’s flagship technology show, Click and many more. She’s explored Artificial Intelligence in health, the use of home hormone testing and whether there are any devices that can actually help us meditate better.
This is a super fun episode where we discuss what tech is available today that can help us eat, sleep and exercise better as well as stress less and prevent disease. I learnt both about the world of breath testing to guide our food choices, an app to help you with jet lag, as well as the potential for intelligent and personalised cancer screening.
Hacking Humanity dives into this and a lot more, which is available in all good bookstores.
Some of the products discussed include:
Whoop
Oura
Omed
Dexcom and Abbot CGMs
Timeshifter App
Eli Health
BrainPatch AI
Grail Testing
Truecheck
Ezra
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| 0:00.0 | On today's episode of The Doctor's Kitchen, we're going to be talking saliva tests, digital coaches, |
| 0:05.3 | poop cameras and the future of health and wellness and what that looks like with Lara Lewington. |
| 0:10.3 | This is going to be a fun episode. I'm sure you're going to love it. |
| 0:15.6 | Hi, I'm Dr. Rupi. I'm a medical doctor and nutritionist. And when I suffered a heart condition years ago, |
| 0:21.6 | I was able to reverse it with diet and lifestyle. This opened up my eyes to the world of food |
| 0:28.1 | as medicine to improve our health. On this podcast, I discuss ways in which you can use nutrition |
| 0:34.8 | and lifestyle to improve your own well-being every day. |
| 0:38.0 | I speak with expert guests and we lean into the science, |
| 0:41.6 | but whilst making it as practical and as easy as possible, |
| 0:45.0 | so you can take steps to change your life today. |
| 0:48.5 | Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast. Now, even though I'm a skeptic, I love health tech. I wear a wearable. I play with |
| 1:03.3 | red light therapy gadgets and I monitor my bloods more regularly than a lot of my peers. But rather |
| 1:08.9 | than being overwhelmed with the data, I thrive in it and I'm |
| 1:12.9 | able to reasonably weigh up the information from all these inputs because of my experience |
| 1:17.8 | of being a medical doctor for over 15 years. But with so much interest in health tech, |
| 1:23.4 | the landscape has become super confusing and it can be super hard to separate health from hype. |
| 1:31.3 | So that's why we're chatting to Laura Lewington today. |
| 1:34.3 | She's covered some of the world's greatest innovations presenting the BBC's flagship technology show, |
| 1:40.2 | Click, and many, many more. |
| 1:42.3 | She's explored artificial intelligence and health, the use of home hormone testing, |
| 1:47.2 | and whether there are any devices that can actually help us meditate better and stress less. |
| 1:53.4 | Something I'm definitely interested in. |
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