Dr Rangan Chatterjee: GP & Author
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Measured health wisdom for real life.
Feel Better, Live More is a measured health conversation show built around expert interviews and practical self-understanding. Recent episodes move from attachment theory and purpose to meditation, habits, pleasure, nutrition, and the limits of productivity.
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Feel Better, Live More is a health and wellbeing show with a broad but coherent idea of what makes a person feel better. It treats the body, mind, habits, relationships, and sense of meaning as connected systems. Dr Rangan Chatterjee leads the conversations with a warm clinical curiosity, usually setting up the subject before letting the guest develop it in detail. The pace is measured. Recent episodes range from attachment theory with Dr Amir Levine to purpose and inner guidance with Dr James Hollis, from James Clear on habits to Oliver Burkeman on accepting finite time. The show often resists one-size-fits-all answers. A discussion of depression, for example, questions whether a single label can cover many different causes, while a conversation on relationships frames attachment as changeable rather than fixed. That pattern matters. The show prefers explanations that leave room for hope and responsibility without making health feel like a personal failure. Its bite-size episodes work as condensed takeaways from longer interviews, especially around habits, joy, nutrition, and productivity. The full conversations give more space to mechanisms, stories, and nuance. Meditation episodes with Henry Shukman add another mode entirely, offering short guided practices aimed at calm, grounding, and reduced reactivity. Nutrition appears through careful distinctions, such as the difference between added sugars, natural sweeteners, and chemically synthesized sweeteners. Productivity is treated with similar restraint, especially in the idea that no system can make a finite life contain infinite demands. The show’s recurring strength is translation. It turns neuroscience, psychology, psychoanalysis, behavior change, and contemplative practice into language that feels usable. It is not detached or overly clinical. It is also not breathless wellness content. The best episodes feel like a bridge between expert knowledge and a more forgiving way to live with one’s own patterns. For listeners who want health advice with emotional intelligence, it offers a steady, practical companion.
Made for: For listeners interested in mental health, relationships, behavior change, meditation, nutrition, and purpose without a frantic self-improvement tone. It especially suits people who like expert interviews translated into practical, everyday choices.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its warm clinical synthesis: complex health ideas are slowed down, clarified, and connected to lived experience. It makes room for science, reflection, and practice in the same feed.
“Health has become overcomplicated. I aim to simplify it” In this podcast, we hear stories from leading health experts and exciting personalities who offer easy health life-hacks, expert advice and debunk common health myths giving you the tools to revolutionise how you eat, sleep, move and relax. Hosted by Dr Chatterjee - one of the most influential GPs in the country with nearly 20 years experience, star of BBC 1’s Doctor In the House, and author of 6 internationally best-selling books, including ‘The 4 Pillar Plan’ – Feel Better, Live More aims to inspire, empower and transform the way we feel. When we are healthier, w...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Chatterjee links food, relationships, purpose, and behavior change while pressing broad health claims toward useful specifics.
Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee takes everyday health questions and follows them into the beliefs and pressures shaping daily life. Conversations move from sugar cravings and food quality to attachment, purpose, limited time, and behavior change.
Rangan Chatterjee turns health advice into a fitting room: keep what actually fits your life.
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A practical conversation about sugar and sweeteners, with a clear look at refined sugar, added sugar, and natural alternatives.
Dr William Li keeps the conversation tightly centered on sugar and sweeteners, sorting refined sugar, artificial sweeteners, stevia, monk fruit, and added sugar into cleaner buckets. Dr Chatterjee keeps the tone practical.
A grounded look at how secure relationships can be learned at any age.
The episode keeps relationships grounded in ordinary human need rather than vague inspiration. Dr. Amir Levine ties attachment theory to the wish to feel calm, supported, and safe with other people, while Dr.
A humane case for choosing better, not doing everything.
Oliver Berkman pushes back on the idea that better systems will somehow make room for everything, and the episode holds onto the cost of believing otherwise.
A clear-eyed take on the cost of ignoring the inner guide and the pull toward a more aligned life.
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee and James Hollis take a serious question and keep it grounded: what if unease is less a defect to fix than a signal that something inside has been left unattended?
A practical set of stress resets, built around gratitude, breathing, and trusted conversation.
The episode frames stress management as a handful of steady habits rather than a full personality reset. Dr Tara Swart points to simple starts to the day: gratitude on waking, deep breathing before the pace picks up, and getting thoughts onto paper instead of letting them…
A brisk, mechanism-first take on why food quality and diet composition can matter as much as calories.
This Bite Size episode frames Dr Mark Hyman's argument around a simple idea: food quality matters as much as calories. It ties eating to the microbiome, the immune system, mitochondrial function, stress hormones, insulin hormones, and sex hormones, while also making a practical…
A calm case for trusting your own judgment before chasing the next fix.
Dr Rangan Chatterjee uses this Bite Size episode to make a plain case for trusting personal judgment over outside authority. He asks listeners to test advice against everyday life, pay attention to whether a plan feels workable, and treat the body as a source of information…
Reported stories of responsibility and its consequences.
Researchers, doctors and coaches, translated into everyday health stakes.
On Feel Better, Live More, Alain de Botton challenges the expectation that a partner should be a perfect match.
Dr William Li says artificial sweeteners in diet sodas can alter the gut microbiome and affect metabolism.
Dr William Li argues that added sugar, diet soda, ultra-processed foods, and processed meats can weaken the body’s five defense systems, including circulation, stem cells, the gut microbiome, DNA protection, and immunity.
Attachment can change.
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This episode features a guided meditation by Zen Master Henry Shukman aimed at creating a spacious and peaceful mind, as part of a 30-day meditation challenge.
Nobody can do an impossible amount.
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This episode features a 10-minute loving kindness guided meditation by Zen Master Henry Shukman, introduced by Dr.
This episode features James Clear discussing how small daily habits create powerful impacts, why focusing on systems over outcomes leads to lasting change, and four principles to make habits stick.
This episode features a guided meditation by Zen Master Henry Shukman on how to sit with difficult feelings, part of a 30-day meditation challenge promoted by Dr.
This episode features Alain de Botton explaining how childhood experiences shape adult relationships and behaviors, offering practical tools for self-awareness.
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Food is not just fuel.
This episode explores how fascia, a connective tissue in the body, may store emotions and trauma, and how simple movement practices called fascial maneuvers can help release these to improve mental and physical health.
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This bite-sized episode features a clip from an interview with a Buddhist monk discussing zen wisdom for difficult times, preceded by a sponsor message about a daily health drink.
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