What If the Food You Crave Is the Very Thing Harming Your Health?

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?

📣 Follow Dr. Jen Unwin and join the movement toward metabolic wellbeing without the BS.

Chapters

• 0:30 I discovered Low carb 15 years ago and working with my Husband Dr David Unwin was a key factor
• 1:40 Types of modern addiction, food addiction / UPF's & sugar
• 3:00 Metabolic Health is having your biochemistry working optimally, nutrition is the number one factor
• 4:25 Nutritional training as a Clinical Psychologist !!!!
• 5:00 Why left NHS!!!
• 5:20 Link between mental health & nutrition
• 6:45 What are UPF's - why they impact one's health
• 8:15 The messaging of breakfast cereals
• 10:35 Cereals before bed!! How do you build a strong body
• 11:05 Food addiction & T2D
• 12:41 Food Addictions - it's impact / behaviours
• 15:30 UPF's light up the brain and are socially sanctioned
• 16:40 Losing 1/3 of life expectancy with elevated blood sugars
• 17:30 The way we eat has changed
• 19:30 The longer you leave it the more damage you are doing
• 20:20 Think of the long term outcomes
• 24:50 The economical way of low carb lifestyle
• 26:50 How to shop in the UK for good animal protein
• 28:00 Human body care daily - what are the building blocks. You cannot live without protein
• 29:20 The care of cattle
• 30:22 To be a healthy human we need to eat animal protein
• 31:50 Overconsumption of UPF's - people not eating real foods, becoming nutrient deficient