The Evolution Lab

The Evolution Lab Podcast

The Evolution Lab Podcast explores the most effective, tried, tested and guaranteed routes and answers to success with the human body by asking the people who research, coach, treat and make it happen, and with those that use their bodies to the highest levels of performance. Matt Roberts interviews guests and experts offering their insight, experience, successes and failures, as well as probing into the key pillars for physical health, mental focus and longevity.

Every human body goes through enormous challenges when being pushed to perform at the very highest level and every human body breaks down at some point in time. The Evolution Lab aims to find the ways in which the individuals have trained, eaten, recovered, adapted and succeeded, and also explores the approaches that failed in their programming, why they did and what they learned in order to improve. The shows get under the skin of coaching, science, longevity, psychology, nutrition and sleep in order to find the answer to how we reach our full potential and reach the peak of their own physical capabilities.

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Vassos Alexander

Vassos Alexander

EPISODE 8 – AVAILABLE NOW

Veteran of more than 100 marathon and ultra running events, Vassos Alexander is perhaps best known for his role as side-kick to Chris Evans on Virgin Radio but his experience, insight, anecdotes and guidance come from a place of many thousands of miles covered, not to mention completing the remarkable “Spartathlon”.

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Dale Pinnock

EPISODE 7 – AVAILABLE NOW

“The Healing Power Of Food”
Medicinal Chef Dale Pinnock discusses the vital impacts of how the foods we consume affect our body in very profound ways. Dale delves into the impact of various well used eating programmes and explains how key foods as supplements can have a positive effect on our well-being, immunity, energy and longevity.

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Jim Mellon

Jim Mellon

EPISODE 6 – AVAILABLE NOW

Bioscience, longevity and saving the planet with Jim Mellon. Jim is one of the UK’s foremost entrepreneurs and investors and he shares his view on what the future holds for longevity and bioscience investment, when and how it will affect us and why we should be very optimistic about our future.

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Liz O'Riordan

EPISODE 5 – AVAILABLE NOW

Overcoming cancer and how exercise and nutrition help prevent it and extend lives! My guest on the latest episode of The Evolution Lab is Liz O’Riordan, who shares her story of discovering, treating and fighting a devastating prognosis from the perspective of being an expert in the exact field of oncology that she was then having to face. Liz’s story and experience are fascinating and have profound cause for thought for us all.

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James Moore

James Moore

EPISODE 4 – AVAILABLE NOW

James Moore, Physiotherapist and Conditioning expert to Olympic squads, Rugby Teams and now to Tennis player Andy Murray dives deep into the physiology of performance, injury management and optimising reruns from time spent training.

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Tamsin Lewis

EPISODE 3 – AVAILABLE NOW

Longevity expert Tamsin Lewis discusses the ways in which science is finding routes to living for longer, being more vital whilst age increases and treating age as a disease that can be cured rather than an acceptable fate.

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Ben Fogle

Ben Fogle

EPISODE 2 – AVAILABLE NOW

Endurance event competitor and veteran of Marathon de Sables, Atlantic Rowing, South Pole Trek and Everest ascent, Ben Fogle is Matt’s guest to talk about his experience of competing in some of the worlds toughest endurance challenges and the physical and mental preparation that he undertook to be ready.

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Tim Spector

EPISODE 1 – AVAILABLE NOW

Internationally renowned and respected Epidemiologist Professor Tim Spector discusses his research and experience of the gut and how we negatively and positively effect it. Tim also shares his unique insight into the effects of Covid on our bodies based on data collected via the Zoe research app that he founded and used throughout the pandemic.

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