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What If the Food You Crave Is the Very Thing Harming Your Health?
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Dr Jen Unwin
🎙️ What If the Food You Crave Is the Very Thing Harming Your Health?
Featuring: Dr. Jen Unwin – Clinical Psychologist, Author, and Metabolic Health Advocate
💡 15 years ago, Dr. Jen Unwin discovered the power of low-carb nutrition, a journey that would become life-changing — not just personally, but professionally.
Working alongside her husband, Dr. David Unwin, a trailblazing GP in the UK reversing type 2 diabetes through diet, Dr. Jen merged her background in clinical psychology with nutrition science to address a modern epidemic: food addiction and metabolic disease.
🔍 Who is Dr. Jen Unwin?
- Clinical Psychologist with decades in the NHS
- Co-author of "Fork in the Road"
- Public health speaker on ultra-processed foods (UPFs), sugar addiction, and mental health
- Advocate for patient-led recovery and food-based healing
- Co-founder of the Public Health Collaboration (PHC UK)
🎧 In her compelling talk, she explores:
⏱️ Key Highlights
- The underestimated mental health & nutrition connection
- Why UPFs are socially sanctioned yet neurologically addictive
- Why breakfast cereals and bedtime snacks are biochemical saboteurs
- How food addiction mimics other compulsive behaviours
- What we’re losing: 1/3 of life expectancy with elevated blood sugar
- The economic & empowering path of low-carb, real food
- The critical need for animal protein in the human diet
🧠 Dr. Jen offers more than just theory — she shares practical tools for metabolic recovery, mental clarity, and reclaiming long-term health.
🔥 Her message is simple, bold, and evidence-based:
“We don’t need more prescriptions — we need real food, real education, and real psychological support.”
🎯 Are you ready to unlearn modern food myths?
📈 Reimagine your wellbeing strategy?
🍽️ And fuel your team, your family, and your future with the truth?
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Chapters
1. What If the Food You Crave Is the Very Thing Harming Your Health? (00:00:00)
2. I discovered Low carb 15 years ago and working with my Husband Dr David Unwin was a key factor (00:00:30)
3. Types of modern addiction, food addiction / UPF's & sugar (00:01:40)
4. Metabolic Health is having your biochemistry working optimally, nutrition is the number one factor (00:03:00)
5. Nutritional training as a Clinical Psychologist !!!! (00:04:25)
6. Why left NHS!!! (00:05:00)
7. Link between mental health & nutrition (00:05:20)
8. What are UPF's - why they impact one's health (00:06:45)
9. The messaging of breakfast cereals (00:08:15)
10. Cereals before bed!! How do you build a strong body (00:10:35)
11. Food addiction & T2D (00:11:05)
12. Food Addictions - it's impact / behaviours (00:12:41)
13. UPF's light up the brain and are socially sanctioned (00:15:30)
14. Losing 1/3 of life expectancy with elevated blood sugars (00:16:40)
15. The way we eat has changed (00:17:30)
16. The longer you leave it the more damage you are doing (00:19:30)
17. Think of the long term outcomes (00:20:20)
18. The economical way of low carb lifestyle (00:24:50)
19. How to shop in the UK for good animal protein (00:26:50)
20. Human body care daily - what are the building blocks. You cannot live without protein (00:28:00)
21. The care of cattle (00:29:20)
22. To be a healthy human we need to eat animal protein (00:30:22)
23. Overconsumption of UPF's - people not eating real foods, becoming nutrient deficient (00:31:50)
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