Dr. Megan Rossi, 36, grew up in Cairns, Australia with a single mother and pursued gut health after her grandmother's bowel cancer experience during Rossi's final university year. She earned a PhD in probiotics, worked as a clinical dietician treating conditions from heart disease to type 2 diabetes, and served as the Australian Olympic Swimming Team's nutritionist before relocating to London. She leads gut health research at King's College London, runs a private practice called The Gut Health, co-founded the £20 million food brand Bio&Me which sold over 35 million portions in U.K. supermarkets, appears on ITV's This Morning, and launched Smart Strains, a clinically targeted live-bacteria product after 11 rejections.
Being in the C-suite is a high-pressure job with long hours, board responsibilities, and intense scrutiny. But what is it like to be a top executive when you're off the clock? Fortune's series, The Good Life, shows how up-and-coming leaders spend their time and money outside of work. Today, we meet Dr. Megan Rossi, the 36-year-old award-winning gut health scientist, TV regular, and best-selling author better known as The Gut Health Doctor.
"I watched her go through chemotherapy and surgery, feeling frustrated with the gut for what it had done to her," Rossi recalls to Fortune. "Not long after, I sat in a lecture on the early warning signs of bowel cancer and couldn't help but wonder if we spoke more openly about gut health, could her story have ended differently? That question has stayed with me ever since."
Since then, she's built a portfolio career that spans science, publishing, influencing and entrepreneurship: Rossi leads gut health research at the university King's College London, runs her private practice, "The Gut Health, co-founded the £20 million ($27 million) food brand Bio&Me-which has sold over 35 million portions of "gut-loving goodness" in U.K. supermarkets-and is known as "The Gut Health Doctor," on ITV's This Morning show.
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