From behind the scenes at the world's biggest fashion shows to the science behind the gut microbiome - Catherine Hurley Arbibe shows us a new road to gut health.

Catherine read medicine at Oxford, modelled internationally gracing the covers of Vogue, Marie Claire and Cosmo, and is now the founder of NEWROAD30, a gut health supplement developed with scientists from Oxford, INRAE Paris and Queen's University Belfast. Catherine talks candidly about the reality of life as an international model, what motherhood changed, and how she found her way back to science.

Together with guest co-host and investigative wellness journalist Rebecca Newman, Catherine helps us cut through the noise on gut health supplements, the emerging research on microplastics and three clean living changes that actually make a difference - including the sunscreen question we all need answered.

This is an episode about returning to ours roots, career changes in our 40s, plant diversity, our beautiful brains and finding our way back to something that energises us.

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Guest Co-Host: Rebecca Newman

Rebecca Newman is an investigative wellness journalist who has written for the Financial Times, The Guardian and GQ. She has a particular interest in the science of the gut microbiome, women's health and evidence-based wellness. She joined Patsy for The Wobbly Middle's vision board episode and is back this week to dig into the science with Catherine.

Key Topics

• Career pivot in midlife — from medicine to modelling to founding a science-backed gut health supplement
• The gut microbiome — why it matters more than we realised and how to support it
• The American Gut Project — the research behind eating 30 different plants a week
• Gut health supplements — what to look for, what to avoid, and why food state matters
• Microplastics — the emerging research and what fibre has to do with it
• The backstage reality — what life at the top of the modelling world was really like
• Clean living edits — three practical changes Catherine has made at home
• Women's health in midlife — plant diversity for a healthy gut

Links

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