Teaching people how to cook their way to health

Dr Rupy Aujla, MBBS, BSc, MRCGP, MSc is a London-based, GMC-registered doctor, nutritionist and founder of The Doctor’s Kitchen. He hosts The Doctor’s Kitchen Podcast and YouTube channel alongside the Doctor’s Kitchen recipe app to help people use evidence-based food and lifestyle medicine to live healthier, happier lives. He trained at Imperial College London, specialising in General Practice and Emergency Medicine and holds a Masters in Nutritional Medicine from the University of Surrey and is a multiple Sunday Times bestselling author with five cookbooks to his name.

Dr Rupy’s life was changed after suffering a significant heart condition in 2009. After learning about nutritional medicine, he was able to reverse his condition using a food and lifestyle approach. Influenced by the teachings of both ancient and modern medicine, and underpinned by his own clinical experience, he creates recipes designed to optimise health and wellbeing.

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In 2017, Dr Rupy founded Europe’s first non-profit Culinary Medicine programme for medical schools that teaches undergraduates the foundations of nutritional medicine and how to cook.

Alongside his educational work, Dr Rupy is Chief Science Officer at Exhale Coffee, Scientific Advisor to Stride, part of the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme and previously served as Clinical Adviser on Nutrition to the Royal College of General Practitioners. He is an international health and wellness speaker and has featured on TEDx and various BBC television shows including “Cooking in the Doctor’s Kitchen”, as well as Channel 4’s “Secrets of the Glucose Goddess” with Jessie Inchauspé and “Cook Clever Waste Less” with Prue Leith. He is a regular guest on programmes such as This Morning, BBC Morning Live and Saturday Kitchen.

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