Welcome back to the WOOP podcast, where we sit down with top athletes, researchers, scientists, and more to learn what the best in the world are doing to perform at their peak and what you can do to unlock your own best performance.

I'm your host, Kristen Holmes, DUP of Performance Science at WOOP, and we are on a mission to unlock human performance.

On this week's episode, I'm joined by the co-founder and CEO of Whole 30, Melissa Urban.

Melissa is a recovered addict, nutritionist, and a seven-time New York Times best-selling author,

and has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and more. After leaving rehab, Melissa realized

she needed to change her habits and her life in order to maintain her recovery, which caused

her to examine her relationship with food and its impact on her body. I know many of you are probably

rethinking your own habits, whether they're diet, exercise, consumption, or something else.

And this conversation covers so much more than just food.

Melissa and I will discuss how and why she started Whole 30 method and the effects she saw,

the physical benefits of a dietary reset, the importance of understanding your body

through dietary elimination, reintroducing

foods into a diet, tips on how to commit to a diet and lifestyle program, how Melissa used her

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And it might just be answered in the future episode.

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