#76 Can You Eat for COVID with Professor Robert Thomas
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
I’m delighted to welcome back Professor Robert Thomas to the show.
You may remember we spoke with Prof Robert previously on one of our earlier episodes and I’m thrilled that he could join me again.
Professor Robert Thomas is a Consultant Oncologist at Bedford and Addenbrooke’s Hospitals, a clinical teacher at Cambridge University and visiting Professor of Sports and nutritional science at the University of Bedfordshire.
In addition - he is lead of a Lifestyle and Cancer Research Unit and is also medical advisor to the website Cancernet.co.uk. Through his amazing work - Prof Robert Thomas has previously been awarded The British Oncology Association’s “Oncologist of the Year” and The Royal College of Radiologist medal.
On the show today we talk about:
- Professor Roberts current experience of COVID on the ward as a consultant
- His latest trial using food supplements and probiotics as an addition to conventional treatment
- The formulation of the product with industry and the issues it may pose
- His experience of conducting the research and comparing that to the POMI-T trials
- Why lifestyle modification and prevention of comorbidities has to be the foundation rather than supplements alone
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by Zoe, the nutrition program that starts with an at-home test. |
| 0:06.6 | I was really excited to get my Zoe at-home test kit in the mail. |
| 0:10.3 | It comes complete with an easy-to-apply, blood glucose monitor to give me real-time analytics |
| 0:16.0 | on how my body responds to different foods, a gut health test and, of course, the famous muffins |
| 0:22.5 | to determine how my body responds to sugars and fats. |
| 0:26.1 | I downloaded the Zoe app, which took me through the program and I was on my way. |
| 0:30.1 | And I was pleasantly surprised to find that as a healthy eater myself, my sugars were pretty stable |
| 0:36.3 | and my gut was healthy and all my favourite foods were suggested in my personalised scores |
| 0:42.3 | like edamame beans and broccoli. |
| 0:44.3 | If you want to feel more energetic, improve your gut health and reduce your risk of long-term disease |
| 0:50.3 | it all starts by understanding how you eat for your body. |
| 0:54.6 | Professor Tim Specter and the scientist that Zoe run the world's largest in-depth study of nutrition |
| 1:00.8 | and their biggest learning is that we all respond to food very differently. |
| 1:05.4 | They've turned their research into a personalised nutrition program that gives you insights into how your body responds to food |
| 1:12.2 | and how to eat for your best health, which all begins with an at-home test. |
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| 1:26.5 | Dr. Skitsch. |
| 1:28.5 | Recipes, Health, Lifestyle |
| 1:31.5 | But what COVID is perhaps changing the goalposts here is if you say to someone who's overweight as a poor diet |
| 1:39.5 | you say, come on, you need to try to change because you will avoid the risk of chronic disease in 20 years' time, |
| 1:44.5 | they may not be so interested. But actually with COVID what it's showing is people who have these comorbidities |
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