144 - ZOE’s co-founder, Jonathan Wolf, on the future of nutrition science

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Wolf is the CEO and co-founder of ZOE, a health technology company that focusses on personalised nutrition. ZOE runs the world’s largest nutrition science study with universities such as Harvard and King's College London, investigating the gut microbiome and how nutrition can improve overall health and wellbeing. During the COVID pandemic, their valuable technology was utilised to help scientists understand more about the virus. The COVID-19 symptom study app was designed at record speed and had a million users within 24 hours of launch. Dr Louise Newson speaks with Jonathan about the latest understanding of how the gut microbiome affects our health and weight, how much our genes our to blame (or thank) for our body shape, and about ZOE’s latest study into the menopause and metabolic responses, nutrition and the microbiome. For more information on ZOE’s research and products, visit https://joinzoe.com/ The podcast mentioned and hosted by Jonathan is ‘ZOE Science and Nutrition’.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Louise Newsome and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP and menopause specialist and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-Bron-Avon. I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance.
0:29.9	On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based
0:36.5	information and advice about both the perimenopause and the
0:40.9	menopause.
0:45.4	So today on the podcast I have with me Jonathan Wolfe, who I've known his wife actually longer
0:50.5	than him and didn't realize they were connected.
0:52.9	And most of you hopefully have heard of the Zoe app, which Jonathan is the founder of.
0:58.2	And he's now about to launch a podcast series called Zoe Science Nutrition.
1:03.6	So I was introduced to him recently and I decided to hoik him into the studios and record a podcast with him. So welcome, Jonathan. Thanks ever so much
1:12.7	for coming this morning. It's a pleasure to be here, Louise. So you're married to Justine,
1:17.1	who's an amazing dermatologist, who I've known for a while actually because I'm very interested in
1:21.8	skin. I'm very interested in everything about the menopause, as you know, but the skin is an
1:26.4	amazing organ that lots of people don't realize and skin changes in the menopause, as you know, but the skin is an amazing organ that lots of people
1:28.7	don't realize and skin changes in the menopause are really, really common. So I reached out to
1:33.6	Justine a while ago, we've had some great chats. And then in the last chat, she said, oh, maybe
1:38.0	sometime you should meet my husband. I was like, why? So I hadn't realized this connection. And then
1:44.0	over COVID, I connected with
1:45.8	Tim Specter, who I've always stalked from afar because I love his work, especially with
1:50.7	nutrition. And then the rest is history, if you like. So it's great to be connected. So can you
1:55.7	talk a bit about Zoe? Because I think a lot of people only think about the COVID symptom app, which obviously has been very important in times of COVID. But Zoe, because I think a lot of people only think about the COVID symptom app, which obviously
2:01.8	has been very important to times of COVID, but Zoe wasn't created about, it was created
2:07.2	before COVID anyway. So could you just explain a bit about Zoe and what you do and how you've got
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