How Small Diet Changes Can Add Years to Your Life – Dr. Federica Amati

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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What simple diet changes can help improve long-term health? This week, in the second installment of our Longevity Series, WHOOP SVP, Research Algorithms and Data, Emily Capodilupo sits down with Dr. Federica Amati, Head Nutritionist at ZOE, Nutrition Topic Lead at Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine, and Head of Nutrition Science at Wellfounded Health. Dr. Amati’s primary focus within the health and nutrition space focusses on maternal and early childhood health, women’s health, and t...

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0:00.0	People fear food more than they enjoy it now. And we need to completely flip that over and say,
0:04.6	listen, food actually is there to be our ally for our health. We've evolved with this food.
0:09.2	Our gut microbiome, you were asking about earlier, we co-evolved with the gut microbiome. We're like,
0:13.6	it's one of the theories as to why our brains are able to develop so much is partly because of the gut microbiome and the gut brain connection.
0:21.7	There's a reason we've evolved to eat these foods, these fiber rich, these berries and these
0:26.4	roots in these plants. We're going backwards to disassociating from the foods that got us
0:32.1	here in the first place.
0:35.0	Hi everybody. I am Emily Capitalupo, WOOP, SWP of research algorithms and data. And today I am joined by the incredible Dr. Federica Amadi. Dr. Amati, thank you so much for being here.
0:47.8	Thank you so much for having me. Such a pleasure to be here and to finally meet you in real life.
0:51.7	Why don't we start off super easy? Tell us about you and how
0:55.6	you got into studying nutrition. Great question. So I started my career wanting to do medicine at school.
1:02.5	And so I was that kid that did the sciences and, you know, every weekend I was in hospitals,
1:07.7	volunteering, spending time with patients. Life had other plans. So my
1:11.2	grandmother died the day of my chemistry exam. So I turned up to the exam, but didn't do much.
1:17.7	And at the time, I think my school thought that it would be fine because it was such exceptional
1:23.1	circumstances. And my place was to study medicine at Imperial College. And they were like, it's fine.
1:28.9	You know, we understand. Everything else was A's. And then a week before I was due to start,
1:34.7	they sort of went, actually, we can't really set the precedent. You should really reset that paper.
1:40.7	And I was like, oh, no, that's not my plan. I just, you know, I just wasn't planning to take her out.
1:45.1	So instead of doing that, I thought, you know what, I'm going to go and study biomedical
1:49.5	sciences.
1:50.8	So very similar to the US model, because for a hot second, I was going to apply to US universities.
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