How to break up with fad diets forever, with Dr Camilla Stokholm
Age Better with Liz Earle
Liz Earle
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Struggle to maintain a healthy weight, despite doing all the 'right' things? Lifestyle medicine doctor and GP Dr Camilla Stokholm joins Liz to reveal why we shouldn't let calories distract us from the quality of our food.
Camilla shares her experience with rapid weight gain, IBS and hormonal acne, and shares why our gut microbiome might be key to losing excess fat.
Liz and Camilla also dig deep into hunger hormones and how chronic stress can make it difficult to maintain a healthy weight, plus share glucose hacks to support your metabolism in midlife.
Links mentioned in the episode:
- What Your Doctor Eats, by Dr Camilla Stokholm
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- The Diet Myth, by Dr Tim Spector
- A Better Second Half by Liz Earle
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| 0:00.0 | So I always say to anyone, any of my patients who come back to me and say, I'm doing everything |
| 0:05.0 | right, I'm feeding my microbiome, I'm doing the time-restricted eating, everything you've told me |
| 0:11.0 | I'm doing, I just don't understand why am I not losing weight, or why am I not feeling well, |
| 0:15.3 | why is this and that not happening? And the last puzzle piece is that they're not addressing |
| 0:20.4 | the cortisol, if they're chronically stressed or they're not addressing the cortisol. |
| 0:21.3 | If they're chronically stressed or they're not sleeping properly, they're just not going to lose weight. |
| 0:27.4 | Struggling to lose weight, Camilla Stockholm is a GP who feels we should be focusing on eating to keep our bodies in good health. |
| 0:36.2 | Weight management will follow as a convenient side effect. |
| 0:39.9 | I'm Liz Earle. Welcome to the Liz Earle Wellbeing Show, the podcast helping us all have a better |
| 0:45.5 | second half and maybe an even better older age. Now my mission in life is to find ways for all of us |
| 0:52.5 | to thrive in our later life by investing in our |
| 0:55.8 | health and our well-being today. And all this month, we are about rest, recovery and resilience. |
| 1:03.3 | So today we are building resilient bodies with smart nutrition. Yes, that means breaking free |
| 1:10.0 | and letting our bodies recover from |
| 1:12.4 | endless diets. I feel that deserves a cheer, don't you? Well, helping us reset our |
| 1:18.2 | metabolisms and get out of the relentless diet trap is GP Camilla Stockholm. As part of her training, |
| 1:25.3 | she was awarded a scholarship to research childhood obesity |
| 1:28.9 | and provide teachings on lifestyle measures to treat it. This then led to a special interest |
| 1:35.1 | in the gut microbiome and to her studying to become a lifestyle medicine doctor alongside |
| 1:41.5 | her work as a GP, one of those rare and wonderful things. Well, Camilla faced |
| 1:46.7 | her own health challenges, including significant weight gain and debilitating IBS. And she's now |
| 1:53.0 | combined her personal and professional experience in a really great book, What Your Doctor Eat. |
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