ZOE Science & Nutrition Podcast
ZOE is a personalized nutrition company that helps individuals improve their health through tailored dietary guidance. Based on scientific research from institutions like King’s College London and Stanford Medicine, ZOE offers a program that analyzes personal responses to food. This includes at-home testing and continuous glucose monitoring to provide insights into how the body reacts to different foods. The goal is to empower individuals to make smarter food choices, leading to benefits such as increased energy, better sleep, improved mood, and healthy weight management.
ZOE also produces the ZOE Science & Nutrition Podcast, delivering science-backed health and nutrition content.
Your stomach is fine-tuned to deal with its acidic fluid, but the rest of your body isn’t quite as hardy. The acid in your stomach is so powerful it can dissolve metal. Luckily, your stomach is fine-tuned to deal with its acidic fluid, but the rest of your body isn’t quite as hardy. So, if acid escapes from your stomach and reaches your oesophagus, it can cause a painful sensation in the chest — this is heartburn. It isn’t rare, with more than 1 billion people suffering from it globally. In today’s short episode of ZOE Science & Nutrition, Jonathan and Will ask: Why do we get heartburn, and what’s the best way to deal with it?