My Aim Is Simple.

I’m Dr Sophie Newton. I’m a GP in West Yorkshire, mum to three brilliant kids, and proud owner of two very charming cockapoos who regularly photobomb my filming. When I’m not in clinic, I’m usually in our makeshift home studio with my husband, a TV director who somehow makes me look far more polished on camera than I feel in real life.

If you’d asked four-year-old me what I wanted to be, I’d have confidently said “a doctor”. But at thirteen a teacher told me I “wasn’t very good at science”, and that one comment sent me off on a completely different path. I went on to study Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and then spent five years working in advertising in central London. I loved the people, the creativity and the energy of it all, but something never quite clicked. I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was meant to be doing something else.

Eventually I realised that teacher had been wrong and, age 27, I applied for Graduate Entry Medicine at St George’s. I’m still grateful every day that I was given a second chance to do the job I’d dreamed of since I was small. And interestingly, the winding route here has shaped me far more than a straight line ever could have. Anthropology taught me to really understand people. Advertising taught me how to communicate clearly. Both turned out to be surprisingly perfect foundations for being a doctor and, later, for stepping into the world of health communication online.

The YouTube side of my life started almost by accident. After finishing a Lifestyle Medicine diploma I was constantly talking my husband through all the fascinating things I was learning. One evening he said, “You know… this would actually make a great YouTube channel.” He pressed record, and we never really stopped.

What began as videos about healthy habits quickly evolved when I realised my patients were watching them, and other GPs were sharing them in their consultations. That’s when the channel became what it is today: clear, friendly, evidence based explanations of the everyday medical problems people actually see their GP about.