Hello and welcome to the Food Medic podcast. I'm Dr. Hazel Wallace, founder of the Food Medic.

I'm a qualified doctor, personal trainer, blogger and bestselling author of the books of Food Medic and the Food Medic for Life.

I'm passionate about maximising our health through how we live our lives, including the food that we eat, physical activity and stress management.

We will hear from leading experts in their field who will be sharing evidence-based advice on how we can live healthier lives,

and we will cut through the confusing information that we find online.

I like to think of myself as one of the first of a new generation of doctors.

Thank you. to think of myself as one of the first of a new generation of doctors. Hi team, it's Hazel and a very big welcome back to the Food Medic podcast. Today I'm joined by

Rini McGregor, who is a leading performance and eating disorder specialist dietitian with over 15

years of experience working in nutrition. Rini works with top athletes, coaches and sports science teams to provide nutritional

strategies to enhance sport performance and manage eating disorders. She's also a best-selling

author of the books, training food, fast fuel books and orthorexia when healthy eating goes bad.

Rini, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me, Hazel. I'm very excited to speak to you

today. So to kick things off, I always like to find out a little bit more about the guests that we have

on the show. So to start things off, can you tell us a little bit about you and why you got into this

kind of field of nutrition? Yeah, of course. So I started off many, many years ago,

just doing a biochemistry degree, which I loved. And I did that in Nottingham University.

But when I came out of there, I was kind of, I'm definitely somebody who likes to be with people.

I wouldn't say I'm an extrovert, but I know that I'm, I connect with people. And my tutor at the time at Nottingham was brilliant. And he did say to me, he said, you know, your knowledge of biochemistry is great, but I think you'll be better suited to a role which involves, kind of as being out there. Yeah, exactly, rather than being stuck in a lab. And so he really helped me and I ended up doing a postgrad in dietetics at Glasgow,

literally straight after.

So I qualified as a dietitian, I'm embarrassed to say it, but in 1999, so nearly 20 years ago now.

And I got my first couple of jobs working at teaching hospitals in London,

so St George's and then King's College. Really great grounding. I worked in loads of different

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