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Dr. Hazel Wallace, The Food Medic, on nutrition, exercise, and habit formation

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Recovery, Health, Life Sciences, Data, Optimize Performance, Science, Hrv, Fitness, Wearable, Health & Fitness, Sports, Strain, Whoop, Sleep

4.6690 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Hazel Wallace, also known as The Food Medic, sits down with Kristen Holmes for an in-depth discussion on nutrition, exercise, and the keys to strong habit formation. Hazel explains her inspiration for going into medicine (2:20), why small improvements are critical to long-term success (6:30), the role sleep plays in metabolism (8:42), meal timing and sleep (10:52), why diet results are highly personal (13:53), gender differences in nutrition (17:00), training while fasting (20:10), behavi...

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0:00.0

What's up folks? Welcome back to the Whoop Podcast, where we sit down with top performers

0:07.4

to help you figure out what the best in the world are doing to perform at their peak and what you can do to unlock your own best performance.

0:14.5

I'm your host, Will Amit, founder and CEO of Whoop.

0:17.0

We're still on a mission to unlock human performance.

0:20.3

And it feels fitting because we're in January and many of you may have New Year's resolutions about new habits and particularly diets.

0:29.5

That we bring you Dr. Hazel Wallace, known as the Food Medic.

0:34.4

She sits down with Kristen Holmes, our VP of performance, to discuss how everyone can live

0:40.9

a healthier life. She's a trained physician, qualified personal trainer. She's a registered

0:46.6

nutritionist. And she spent her career bridging the gap between conventional medicine and

0:52.0

nutrition. Dr. Wallace and Kristen discuss the keys to strong habit

0:56.2

formation, some of the tips and tricks you can apply in your own life, the critical role

1:01.8

good nutrition plays in your health and well-being, some of the signs you can monitor every

1:06.7

day to understand if you're optimizing your nutrition, how and why men and women should fuel

1:11.4

differently in the science behind it, and a more personal story how losing her father at a young

1:16.6

age inspired her to go into nutrition and medicine. I think Dr. Wallace has a great personal

1:22.0

story. I think this is a lot of really helpful research. As a reminder, you can get 15% off

1:27.1

a W-W-M membership. If you use the

1:28.7

code will, that's WI-L-L, that's Woop.com. Okay, and without further ado, here is Dr. Wallace

1:35.9

and Krista Holmes. Dr. Hazel, welcome. Thank you so much. I'm so grateful to have this conversation with you.

1:45.6

I'm personally a massive fan of yours, have been for a couple years now.

1:50.6

And I know our listeners are just going to take so much from this conversation, just given your background.

1:55.4

You are just an expert in habit formation and obviously nutrition and exercise and sleep.

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