From Global Health Expert to Pm's Personal Trainer With Prof. Devi Sridhar

The Not So Fit Couple Podcast

Ben Haldon & Lucy Davis

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.9 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Piers Morgan calls Devi Sridhar "One of the most brilliant scientists in the world"

Fresh off the back of publishing her new Sunday Times best selling book Preventable, Professor Devi Sridhar is here to talk about her recent decision to become a fully qualified PT, and how that lead to her becoming Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon's personal trainer, we talk covid lockdowns, the true meaning of health and so much more.

Find more of Devi here: https://twitter.com/devisridhar

And buy her new book Preventable here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Preventable-Pandemic-Changed-World-Stop/dp/0241510538/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

With thanks to Dr. Matt Quinn for consulting on some of the topics that we covered in this episode.

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0:30.1	Hello and welcome back to the Not So Fit Cup of Podcast with your host, Lucy Davis.
0:34.8	I'm Benjamin Halden. Today we are joined by the wonderful Debbie Schreeder, who is a professor and the chair
0:41.0	of global health at Edinburgh University Medical School and also a level three personal
0:45.5	trainer.
0:46.5	So as that credential, she's also the writer of Best Scylund book Preventable, which is about
0:51.6	how a pandemic change the world and how to stop the next one. In this week's
0:55.7	conversation, we cover some super exciting topics of how Devi has transitioned into becoming a
1:00.8	personal trainer, a lot of stuff around health implications in COVID around the World Cup, as well as
1:06.1	speaking about this, how China is masking the public from what's actually going on in the
1:11.5	world and around the World Cup. Yeah, it's literally wild. And some of the topics that I definitely
1:16.0	resonated with was how women are not necessarily listened to as much in the fitness space
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1:32.9	Enjoy, guys.
1:34.4	What makes a professor of public health wants to become a personal trainer?
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