ZOE’s best health tips of 2025 - Part 1

ZOE Science & Nutrition

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Nutrition, Science, Health & Fitness, Education

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This special episode brings together the moments from 2025 that listeners told us had the biggest impact on how they eat, think, and feel. It’s been a year full of surprising insights, practical shifts, and ideas that made healthy eating feel a little more doable. From gut health breakthroughs to simple food habits that spark real change, this episode highlights the advice that resonated most - that people returned to, shared, and said genuinely helped them feel better. Whether you’re pausing to take stock of the year or simply looking for small ideas to weave into everyday life, this episode offers some science-backed inspiration you can carry forward in your own way. Unwrap the truth about your food 👉 ⁠Get the ZOE app 🌱 Try our new plant based wholefood supplement - Daily 30+ *Naturally high in copper which contributes to normal energy yielding metabolism and the normal function of the immune system Follow ZOE on Instagram. Timecodes 00:00 Intro 02:20 A wake-up call for change 04:20 The mindset shift that saved a life 08:30 Why your body is silently inflamed 12:20 The chemical that cools inflammation 14:40 The simple trick that unlocks broccoli’s benefits 17:00 The fermented food discovery that shocked researchers 19:20 The truth about autophagy everyone gets wrong 21:30 How to get fasting benefits without starving yourself 23:40 Can fasting really reverse biological age? 25:50 Dementia starts decades before symptoms 28:10 One diet’s astonishing impact on Alzheimer’s risk 30:20 The nutrient your brain literally can’t function without 32:40 The biggest drink trend of 2025 - and why it matters 34:50 The 900-year secret behind matcha’s power 36:40 Why matcha feels different from coffee in your brain 38:30 The nutritional showdown: matcha vs coffee 40:10 The bedtime twist nobody expects about matcha 41:10 The perfect first-time matcha recipe 41:55 How to get matcha’s full benefits (and avoid a common mistake) 42:20 Final takeaway for 2026 📚Books by our ZOE Scientists The Food For Life Cookbook Every Body Should Know This by Dr Federica Amati Food For Life by Prof. Tim Spector Ferment by Prof. Tim Spector Free resources from ZOE Live Healthier: Top 10 Tips From ZOE Science & Nutrition Gut Guide - For a Healthier Microbiome in Weeks Better Breakfast Guide ZOE’s Holiday Hosting Guide Mentioned in today's episode MIND diet slows cognitive decline with aging, A&D (2015) Effects of a personalized nutrition program on cardiometabolic health: a randomized controlled trial, Nature Medicine (2024) Fasting-mimicking diet causes hepatic and blood markers changes indicating reduced biological age and disease risk, Nature Communications (2024) Fasting in diabetes treatment (FIT) trial: study protocol for a randomised, controlled, assessor-blinded intervention trial on the effects of intermittent use of a fasting-mimicking diet in patients with type 2 diabetes, BMC Endocrine Disorders (2024) Have feedback or a topic you'd like us to cover? Let us know here. Episode transcripts are available here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Zoe Science and Nutrition, where world-leading scientists explain how their research can improve your health.
0:11.0	Welcome to this special Zoe episode, the first of our Best of 2025 series, a collection of moments that you told us changed the way you eat,
0:22.4	think and feel this year. It's been an incredible year. We spoke with world-leading scientists,
0:27.9	uncovered surprising insights, and shared practical tools that you can use to feel better every
0:32.4	day. And in this special highlights episode, we're bringing you the very best moments, including
0:37.9	one surprising discovery about a bright green drink that took over the world this year.
0:43.6	Whether you're starting fresh in the new year or building on progress you've already made,
0:48.0	this episode is packed with simple ideas you can take into 2026. Here at Zoe, we know that change isn't always easy.
0:57.6	So if you're looking for a little inspiration, look no further than Rich Roll, who went from
1:02.1	an overweight, junk food-addicted workaholic to one of the world's fittest men, all
1:07.5	after the age of 40.
1:09.2	If you're heading into the new year feeling tired, stuck, or unsure where to begin,
1:14.6	Rich's story is the reminder that change is possible at any age.
1:19.6	Throughout my 20s, I had a struggle with drugs and alcohol that really took me to some pretty dark places.
1:26.4	And I was able to get sober at 31.
1:29.7	I went to treatment for 100 days,
1:32.9	which is a long time to be in voluntarily incarcerated,
1:37.3	in what's kind of a mental institution for the temporarily insane.
1:42.7	But that really changed my life and provided me
1:46.8	with a new set of tools around how to like organize my decision making and my actions.
1:53.7	And when I emerged from that experience, building a foundation of sobriety was like my number one
1:58.6	priority. And I went all in on my recovery. And over the next
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