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Food as medicine: Dr. Julie Foucher explains how to eat your way to good health

WHOOP Podcast

WHOOP

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

4.6690 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode is all about nutrition and how locking in your diet can help prevent chronic disease, fix health problems you might be dealing with, and help you live a longer life. Dr. Julie Foucher, family physician and four-time CrossFit Games athlete, talks about how food can often be used as the medicine for what ails you. She joins WHOOP VP of Performance Kristen Holmes to discuss food's medicinal capabilities (3:25), preventing chronic disease (7:20), inflammation (9:20), processed...

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0:00.0

What's up folks? Welcome back to the WOOP podcast or sit down with top athletes, researchers, scientists, and more.

0:08.7

Figure out what the best in the world are doing to perform at their peak, everyone. That's what we're after here.

0:14.0

I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop, or we are on a mission to unlock human performance.

0:20.8

We've got a great episode this week.

0:22.2

It's all about nutrition and how unlocking your diet can help prevent chronic disease,

0:28.7

fix health problems you might be dealing with, and help you live a longer life.

0:34.2

Whoop VP of Performance, Kristen Holmes, sits down with Dr. Julie Foucher to talk about how food

0:40.1

can often be used as medicine. Julie is one of the true experts in the field of nutrition and

0:46.1

high performance. She's a family physician who practices precision medicine with wild health,

0:51.8

an organization focused on preventative and proactive health care.

0:55.2

Julie is also one of the top CrossFit athletes the sport has seen in the last decade

0:59.5

and has competed four times at the CrossFit games, finishing in the top five in all those appearances.

1:05.5

Julie and Kristen discuss what to know about processed foods and how to best understand what ingredients are in the foods you

1:11.8

eat, how fasting, meal timing, and eating close to bedtime can affect you.

1:17.0

The role your genetics play and how you metabolize food.

1:20.1

Inflammation in which foods are anti-inflammatory and how proper nutrition can play a role in

1:25.4

injury prevention and injury recovery. We have new ways

1:29.1

to interact with the WOOP podcast. You can email us, podcast at Woop.com, or you can call our new

1:35.0

listener line and leave a question or comment, and your question may be answered on a future episode.

1:40.1

That's 508-443-49522. 508-443-49-2.

1:46.6

And then we also have an exciting new offer for Whoop podcast listeners.

1:51.2

If you're a new member signing up for Whoop, you can use the code Will, W-I-L, when you're

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