"exercise doesn't help weight loss the reason exercise doesn't work is because Professor Tim Spector he's an award-winning scientist best-selling author and medical professor and he is ranked in the to..."

"many consider you to be the leading expert on topics relating to gut health and diet and food Etc but how would you describe your own professional academic bio what is that bio in your own words it's ..."

"articles more than 800 articles on this subject matter um in 2014 you set up the British gut microbiome project and you've written five books on these subject matters I mean I've read two of them that..."

"Looking Back Now I think that's it's hard to be absolutely sure but that seems uh a reasonable scenario I read and I've heard from members of your team that left you with a feeling as you've kind of s..."

"they actually you know they weigh several pounds so you can either think of them as a microbial Garden but increasingly I'm shifting that towards thinking as a an incredible Pharmacy so all of them ar..."

"the microbiome that most people currently believe that I probably sat here now believe about how to keep my um my gut healthy what are some of those key myths because I know you like myth busting well..."

"and things like coffee are a plant to me because it comes from a fermented Bean so it's that diversity it's having more fermented foods it's having a range of colors it's cutting out [Music] um the ul..."

"nonsense yeah thank you I will clip that and send it to him there's never been any long-term study showing that calorie counting is an effective way to lose weight and maintain weight loss after you k..."

"guidelines but I think more importantly is that the whole calorie counting assumption means that it doesn't matter what form that calorie is it has the same effect in your body therefore whether you'r..."

"um but it also could be things like your sugar spikes so in the Zoe predict studies where basically we've given Now 50 000 people um in the US and the UK the same Foods at the same time same time of d..."

"so that the artificial sweeteners are harmful the the glues they stick the foods together the emulsifiers some people react quite a lot to those and they cause problems so the whole thing is like this..."

"had to learn to preserve things we had to do trickery to make you know margarines and things with chemistry that we've moved away from that but you know going back you know olive oil for example is a ..."

"cheaper and these are all warning signs you know and you know you take breakfast cereals I mean I used to I used to eat lots of breakfast cereals I was brought up on them highly sugary stuff and then ..."

"when I started we were starting doing this testing for Zoe I had all these spare kits and I gave my wife one as well and we sit down and she's French Belgian and loves croissants and so we'd have croi..."

"and you change your eating window so most people in in the UK and U.S they'll be eating for 14 or 16 hours a day it's me right lots of snacks and extending late night and what time strict eating is yo..."

"reason and I imagine there's also an impact on sleep there because you know me having chocolate at 2am is probably not going to give um help me have quality sleep at night absolutely yes no I think th..."

"harmful is is a Daft delusion I have been under a dark delusion I've got so many supplements upstairs well they could have a placebo effect you might feel better because you've taken them you know you..."

"ketogenic diet so I cut out pretty much all of those things like I didn't have any bread most of the sort of processed bad carb I don't even know what I'm talking about here so correct me but I cut ou..."

"yeah so but going back to the basic question um keto diets do seem to work for people with diabetes who are overweight as a way of getting them off their medications and sort of kick-starting them int..."

"benefits because you're shifting from Ultra you know because I would suspect that if you did the Zoe test for example you would have quite a big reaction to sugars and your fat control would be quite ..."

"problems for their immune health and long-term health so that's why I'm generally against these extreme diets of any kind other than if you are you know seriously ill diabetic and you're overweight it..."

"is please detail the gut-friendly diet just it's you know 30 different plants a week lots of fermented foods that's your yogurts your kefirs your kombuchas and if you like kimchi kraut uh miso Koji Ja..."

"like doctor was it well I'm not sure is it milk chocolate you have it yeah it's milk chocolate well you need to change the dark chocolate my girlfriend says that she's obsessed with dark chocolate wel..."

"example coffee we already mentioned and if you like coffee I do I well I don't for me coffee is more of a utility I use it before I have these conversations so I don't fall asleep because I'm very you..."

"of coffee as caffeine right and yet if you do these epidemiology studies you know these big population ones people who are having regular decaf coffee also have similar heart benefits so it's other th..."

"yes now I do I had no idea about this until do you but but also the fact is loose leaved means that those those plants have had to survive in more difficult conditions to fight off predators and wind ..."

"little bit of focus and uh for most people it it's it you know it's a good drug that's found in food and I like coffee because also it helps it's allowed in a fast so time restricted eating you allowe..."

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"one of the um we've got a fitness group amongst some of my friends is about 10 of us in it and um we've been tracking how often we work out and how frequently we work out in the workouts that we do an..."

"changing your diet and I think that's that's the big a huge myth particularly perpetuated by gyms and fitness apps and everything else and it is complete nonsense I read that you um when you look to s..."

"talking about sugars or even artificial sweeteners which in my view are nearly as bad because they're sort of you know hidden and deflecting us from the idea that yes giving kids sugary drinks or even..."

"uh chemical concoctions is this this sugar conglomerate that I've been funding much of the research that points towards um some of the things you're talking about there there that's also the conglomer..."

"so it's one of the best examples of how you know feeding your your gut can actually improve your mood and it's particularly important because we're seeing an epidemic of anxiety and depression that's ..."

"microbes because they break down the tablet into its active chemicals but is to make sure they've actually got gut friendly diet and so this is a really exciting area of research you mentioned them at..."

"also you know that have been linked in the past to diet and you know over sugar and e-numbers and all these kind of things so we've sort of known vaguely there's an association but I think people have..."

"like they're called ssris I believe um is rising and I think it's doubled over the last decade or so with the US kind of leading the way and then other countries like China and Japan at the bottom of ..."

"know we're the number one country in Europe for this rates are still going up kids have over 70 percent of their food is ultra processed now horrendous adults it's nearly you know between 50 and 60 pe..."

"founded nearly six years ago with uh to my co-founders who came to one of my uh talks I was talking about the diet myth and the microbiome and they came up to me and said you know we think what you're..."

"moosli would give me a terrible score my orange juice would you know a score of zero but it's also made subtle changes so you know I used to eat bananas and now they they score badly so now I have pai..."

"problems so it's going super well we've got a still a quarter of a million people waiting for the product in the UK on the waiting list and what's really nice is because we've got this this commercial..."

"for Science and you know we're just scratched the surface of what we can do with this personalization because once we get to a million people you know the left of detail we can provide back about whet..."

"forget pick changes that are going to last for life not as a quick fix I think that's that's what we're after and that's what we want to try and instill is this sustainable healthy way of eating so th..."

"Tim thank you I feel like it's a good place to end and I'm really going to go upstairs and reconsider that vitamin stack that I have and also um throughout all those zero calorie sugar-free drinks tha..."

"knowing who they're asking it for so um the question that's been left for you is you seem nervous yeah I'm very nervous why do people get people always seem to get nervous when I ask this question ver..."

"my father um I don't know I think in in hindsight it's it's much easier thing to say I should have done this yeah and and I think it could be that it's built into us that you know we have a very diffe..."

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