Undoctored: The brand new No 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of 'This Is Going To Hurt’

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You’re made health secretary tomorrow. Truss won’t give you any more money. What’s the very first thing you will do?

I'm happy to give up grains, even happier to give up sugar, but I need to feed my kids and I'm not going to be cooking different meals for each of us. I'm less keen on giving up dairy, but feel good about our fresh, local goat milk. And I feel very good about cheese, for better or worse.

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It’s a very big question, and it’s a bigger question than ever. When I left medicine, I was the first or second person in my cohort of hundreds to leave. And these days, I can’t think of the last time I spoke to a doctor who wasn’t talking about their plan B, whether that was going part-time or moving to another country or working in a different industry entirely. But all I’ll say is, being a doctor is an amazing, brilliant, precious career. But if you’re struggling, and if you’re not enjoying it, you can’t do the best for your patients. And there are lots of people who say, “Oh, you must stay in the job no matter what”, and that’s unhealthy and unhelpful. Just work out what it is you want to do. Which do you prefer: people asking you for medical advice at parties, or people recognising you and asking you about Ben Whishaw? So-called diseases of civilization—diabetes, overweight and obesity, much psychiatric illness, autoimmune diseases, heart disease, colon cancer, constipation, even common skin conditions like acne and skin rashes—are virtually unknown in primitive societies following traditional diets. By removing wheat, grains, and processed junk foods, as well as Bt toxin and glyphosate residues that come via genetically modified corn and soy, you have eliminated factors that are known to disrupt bowel flora. It always surprises me when people readily say they want children. In my head, I'm screaming, "Do you NOT understand how horrible the world is and what your theoretical children would be exposed to???" all whilst maintaining a calm and carefully neutral expression.

The reason Adam Kay sells millions of books is not because he used to be a doctor, it's because he writes so well. Undoctored is another triumph; funny and moving and thoughtful.And things are now better – they are not better enough, there’s still a long way to go – but it’s a big ship to steer.’ Calcium is not part of the Undoctored process as it does not yield bone health and poses increased risk for cardiovascular disease. Part of the Undoctored way of thinking is to never accept “health” advice on blind faith. This is especially true of nutritional advice. I wrote This is Going to Hurt with a beginning, middle and end. I wanted it to be about the mental health of healthcare staff. I did what I set out to do and made a taboo subject an unmissable conversation. I have no plans for a second series, I’d hate to do one for the sake of it. But I am in the early stages of a new project which will hopefully become something, and, if it does, will be very different but, hopefully, people will watch it. Stand-up is both diagnosis of pain and cure: the fury and the laughter that soothes it. I’m not surprised he wanted to bring babies into the world: he is all in pieces. I now see Kay’s attempt at medicine as a great act of transference: to heal others at the expense of himself; to birth others who would be happier than himself, in a kind of thwarted renewal.