Dr Federica Amati: What Alcohol is Really Doing to Your Body | GREAT MOMENTS
Great Company with Jamie Laing
Jampot
4.6 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Are you doing dry January? Curious about sober living? Or trying to be more mindful about what you eat and drink? This Great Moment is for you.
Dr Federica Amati is a leading expert and Head Nutritionist at the health app ZOE. She was one of our first ever guests on Great Company and she completely changed the way I think about alcohol.
In this Great Moment, Dr Amati reveals the dangerous link between alcohol and breast cancer, explains why every unit matters and shares simple changes we can all make to our diet to live a happier, healthier life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, I'm Jamie Lang and this is Great Moments. |
| 0:08.8 | In terms of chronic disease, so I get it, you know, smoking, not good. Alcohol, sure. Yeah, not good. And I want to ask about alcohol. I want to get into that. The other thing, not moving, not exercising, we understand. Those are the sort of ones. |
| 0:22.2 | They're the big hitters. What are the, what are the hidden ones that we don't really know? And what |
| 0:26.3 | are the unhealthy food habits that we're not sure about as well? Okay. I think they're the big |
| 0:30.6 | hitters, but how many people still smoke? I would say a lot. Why a lot? And vaping, not safe. |
| 0:36.9 | Like, is it better than smoking cigarettes? |
| 0:38.3 | Sure. |
| 0:39.3 | Should we do it? |
| 0:40.3 | No. |
| 0:41.3 | So, like, it seems obvious, but people still walk around smoking and vaping. |
| 0:46.3 | And so even though that's like the one, well, everyone knows that one, it's like, yeah, but, you know, actually one of my friends. |
| 0:52.3 | But have you ever smoked? |
| 0:53.3 | In the past, I did. See, there we go. Did I know what I know now? No, not so much. And also, like, I'm not defending this at all actually. But since then, the smoking ban has come in. Since then, it feels like public health understanding of how bad smoking is has improved. Correct. And it's true also that younger people |
| 1:11.5 | are smoking less now. So that statistically it's a trend, which is great. And drinking less |
| 1:16.4 | alcohol. And drinking less alcohol as well. But, you know, if you look at, so Dr. Helen O'Neill, |
| 1:21.9 | she's wonderful. She runs Hertility, which is a, she's a dream. her her research that she did women actively trying to |
| 1:30.0 | conceive smoking was quite high percentage you know so it's like we know it but we don't know enough |
| 1:34.8 | we can still repeat it don't smoke um and with alcohol drinking similarly it's one of the |
| 1:41.5 | only things that we ingest which is a class one carcinogen what does that mean so it's labeled it's one of the only things that we ingest, which is a class one carcinogen. |
| 1:44.8 | What does that mean? |
| 1:45.7 | So it's labeled, it's understood as directly causing cancer by itself. |
| 1:51.7 | Very few things that we ingest are class one carcinogens, right? |
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