Professor Tim Spector: rethinking the way we eat

Food myths are busted in the second episode of Brains of Wellbeing + Beauty, the series where we sit down with the scientists, entrepreneurs, innovators and disrupters powering the $5.6tn wellness industry. HTSI deputy editor Beatrice Hodgkin speaks to Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London and co-founder of Zoe, the nutrition app that has reached cult status among its 130k subscribers.

In addition to charting his journey from rheumatology into nutrition, the pair discuss why everything we’ve been taught about food is wrong, starting with calories; the five things you can do to improve your diet today; the app’s collaboration with the NHS, US expansion and the surprising health benefits of coffee.