Working Hard with Grace Beverley
Ep. 136 As A Woman, What & How Should I Be Eating?: Smart Snacking, Gut Health & Actually Useful Nutrition Advice with Professor Sarah Berry
28 Apr 2025
This is an expert episode absolutely packed with gold on what & when we should be eating. My guest is Professor Sarah Berry, a world-leading expert in nutritional science, Professor at King’s College London, the Chief Scientist at ZOE and the lead nutritional scientist on the PREDICT program, the world’s largest in-depth nutritional research programme. With over 20 years of research under her belt, Sarah has published more than 200 scientific papers exploring how our bodies respond to food, from blood sugar and fat metabolism to the gut microbiomeand crucially, how those responses can differ drastically between individuals, especially women.The aim for this episode was to answer the question, as a woman, what and how should I be eating, and how we can finally move past one-size-fits-all wellness culture, something I am very behind! + CHAPTERS0:00: Introduction 1:53: Working Hard or Hardly Working? 2:49: Prof Sarah's Career Journey 5:45: Why nutritional science has overlooked women14:31: The processed food price gap18:03: How being a woman impacts your metabolism 21:24: Eating to ease menopause symptoms 23:57: The best times to be eating 32:22: Is there anyting we shouldn’t be eating?34:32: Why calorie counting doesn’t work 39:35: What keeps our microbiome healthy 41:00: What women should know about their bodies45:18: How fast eating impacts you50:33: What order you should eat your food in 52:30: The food matrix 57:30: When shouldn’t we be snacking?1:02:04: Her study on cancer in young people 1:06:25: Why 0.1% of us follow food guidelines 1:10:00: The best advice she's recieved +MY LINKS: https://gracebeverley.komi.io/+PROFESSOR SARAH BERRY Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drsarahberry/?hl=en ZOE: https://zoe.com/learn/sarah-berry ZOE Science & Nutrition podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/C0Nr-WDV+RETROGRADE, SHREDDY, TALA and THE PRODUCTIVITY METHOD are my own businesses, therefore any mention of them - whilst not being a sponsorship - is monetarily endorsed. As usual, sponsorships do not change my opinions nor my honesty, but I will always disclaim to make sure motives are clear 😊 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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