Ep. 136 As A Woman, What & How Should I Be Eating?: Smart Snacking, Gut Health & Actually Useful Nutrition Advice with Professor Sarah Berry

Ep. 136 As A Woman, What & How Should I Be Eating?: Smart Snacking, Gut Health & Actually Useful Nutrition Advice with Professor Sarah Berry

Author: Grace Beverley April 28, 2025 Duration: 1:12:05

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!


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CHAPTERS

0:00: Introduction

1:53: Working Hard or Hardly Working?

2:49: Prof Sarah's Career Journey

5:45: Why nutritional science has overlooked women

14:31: The processed food price gap

18:03: 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 bodies

45:18: How fast eating impacts you

50:33: 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


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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


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Grace Beverley hosts the Working Hard with Grace Beverley podcast, a series that moves far beyond standard productivity tips or generic business advice. Here, conversations explore the nuanced and often unconventional paths to achievement across a wide spectrum of life. You’ll hear from a diverse array of guests, including housing campaigners, seasoned investors, and sex experts, each sharing the specific challenges and insights from their unique fields. These discussions naturally avoid easy answers, instead delving into the real work, the personal philosophies, and the redefined metrics of success that drive these individuals. The podcast sits at an interesting crossroads of business, health, fitness, and self-improvement, reflecting Grace’s own multifaceted approach to work and life. Listening feels like gaining access to a series of candid, private mentorships, where the lessons learned are as much about personal resilience and perspective as they are about professional strategy. It’s a space for anyone curious about the many forms that hard work and fulfillment can take, offering stories that challenge the typical rhetoric and inspire a broader, more personal definition of what it means to truly succeed.
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