Future-proof your health in 2026 – with Dr Ayan Panja
Age Better with Liz Earle
Liz Earle
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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NHS GP Dr Ayan Panja joins Liz to share why the answer to tiredness, aches, or digestive issues often lies in your daily habits – and how changing when and how you eat can be more powerful than changing what you eat. Ayan also shares how his own mysterious symptoms at 40 led him to look at health differently, and the simple changes that help new habits stick without relying on willpower.
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| 0:00.0 | And the first step I would ask anyone to take whether it's tiredness or whether it's joint pain or whether it's gut symptoms is just think about your typical day. |
| 0:09.2 | And that gives me a snapshot of their life, you know, what time they wake up, what their sleeps like, what their diets like, whether they're drinking 10 coffees a day like I was when I was revising as a medical student. |
| 0:19.5 | And then the next bit |
| 0:21.0 | that I'm interested in is what I call how, what and when. So just saying that you have to |
| 0:26.5 | eat better is not really good enough. You know, how do you eat? What do you eat? When do you |
| 0:32.0 | eat? It's much more nuanced. Dr. Ayan Panja is an NHS GP with more than 25 years of clinical experience. |
| 0:41.9 | He is here to help you future-proof your health as we head into the next year and beyond. |
| 0:47.7 | This is the Lizzo Well-Being Show, the podcast helping us all have a better second half. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm Liz Earle and yes, I am on that mission to find |
| 0:56.7 | ways for all of us to thrive in our later life by investing in our health and our well-being today. |
| 1:03.0 | Now, Ian and I met actually at a dinner recently hosted by a mutual friend, Dr. Rupi, who's also a friend of |
| 1:08.8 | the podcast here, at a very interesting dinner, |
| 1:11.5 | which we will talk about. But I just really want to say that as 2025 comes to a close now, |
| 1:17.7 | you might be starting to think about what you want to do that's a little bit different, |
| 1:21.7 | maybe what you want to prioritize in 2026 when it comes to your health and your well-being. |
| 1:27.2 | And A.N. has actually written a brilliant book called The Health Fix, |
| 1:30.6 | which asks how you want to feel and offers really practical tools to help you reach these goals. |
| 1:37.3 | He's also got a great podcast, which we'll dig into. |
| 1:40.0 | So today, I really want to talk about how we should eat, move, sleep, and just generally live |
| 1:46.0 | if we want to beat aches and pains, have better digestion, and even a sharper memory. |
| 2:00.8 | And welcome. It's really good to have you here. It wasn't that long ago, was it, that we met in real life? |
| 2:06.8 | No, a couple of months, I think. Yeah, it's lovely to be here. And thank you for having me. |
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