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What's Up Docs?

What's Up Docs?

Protein - are you getting enough of it?

June 10, 2025

29 minutes

Available for over a year

Welcome to What’s Up Docs?, the podcast where doctors and identical twins Chris and Xand van Tulleken untangle the confusion around every aspect of our health and wellbeing.

In this episode, they want to get to the bottom of the hype around protein. Should we be worried about not getting enough? What are the best sources of protein? And are protein supplements fact or fad? They speak to Nita Forouhi, Professor of Population Health and Nutrition at the University of Cambridge, to find out.

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Presenters: Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken

Guest: Professor Nita Forouhi

Producer: Jo Rowntree

Executive Producer: Rami Tzabar

Editor: Kirsten Lass

Assistant Producer: Maia Miller-Lewis

Assistant Producer and Researcher: William Hornbrook

Tech Lead: Reuben Huxtable

Social Media: Leon Gower

Digital Lead: Richard Berry

Composer: Phoebe McFarlane

Sound Design: Melvin Rickarby

At the BBC:

Assistant Commissioner: Greg Smith

Commissioning Editor: Rhian Roberts

A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4