What Role Does our Microbiome Play in a Healthy Diet? – with Tim Spector
What Role Does our Microbiome Play in a Healthy Diet? – with Tim Spector
There’s a lot of conflicting info out there about how to eat healthily. Tim Spector studies the microbiome to gain insight into how its diversity can impact health outcomes.
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The microbiome is the community of 100 trillion microbes that live in our colon that are like a virtual organ. This organ is key to our digestion, appetite, mood, metabolism, and control of our immune system. It is also key to how we respond to immunotherapy and chemotherapy. The TwinsUK cohort of 12,000+ twins has been running for nearly 25 years and is now the most intensively studied group of humans on the planet (www.twinsuk.ac.uk). Having deep sequence, metabolites, epigenetics, immune traits and dietary and health data, in 2012 a stool collection for 16S microbiome, metagenomes and metabolomics was added. They are currently using the microbiome data and cohort to provide novel measures of health, such as the level of microbial diversity and a new measure – the microbial health index and how this impacts overall health outcomes. Tim Spector’s team’s twin work has also enabled them to gain insights into the microbiome and immune interactions of the upper colon and small intestine via colonoscopy and interventions. Every medical professional needs to know about maintaining a healthy microbiome from birth to death.
Tim Spector is a Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Director of the TwinsUK Registry at Kings College, London and has recently been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
This talk was filmed in the Ri on 15 October 2018.
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Let me see 500mg/L polyphenols in olive oil, 535mg 1/2 cup blueberries. That’s a no brainer. And a bit less fiber in olive oil, like zero.
A great video and on a subject that I have been studying for my own personal reasons namely that I do suffer from anxiety and depression and moderate obesity. I shall certainly be adding Tim’s book to my Google playbook list and am looking forward to reading it after I have finished the book named The Gut-Mind Connection by Emeran Meyer MD. This is a fascinating subject which I shall try and find out more about via the net.
What about o negative humans they don’t fit in to the narrative that we are the same
So you use your own son as a guinee pig by shoving heeps of mcDo in him for 10 days, which very surprisingly destroyed his gut and so he ‘stayed bad for years’ just to see the effects, publish in the sunday Times and get a good laugh from an audience? Idiot!
Medicines, especially those that you’re stuck with and have to take all the time can do some real damage to your microbiome or digestive system. One day you may find out you can’t eat a lot of foods as I did. I discovered most vegetables, and all artificial preservatives etc. made me really ill. I have spent most of the past forty years living on mostly animal products.
Ridiculous. McDonalds? This guy took too long to get to the point.
I’m feeding my biome, but it’s costing a fortune, simply because supermarkets insist on bagging fruit and veg in family size plastic bags and I’m feeding one. But who wants to eat a week of swede and cabbage anyway? We need to keep badgering supermarkets to let us choose how much we need to buy. I’m off to badger Hugh FW! (For those outside the UK, he’s a chef who runs eco campaigns for food producers to be more environmentally aware).
Given the now known value or benefits, why haven’t christensenella and akkermansia been isolated, reproduced, and made available as probiotic supplements the way so many other strains of bacteria have been?
Tim looks much tireder after the COVID pandemic than he did 2 years ago.
I read plenty of great opinions on the net about how exactly Okibetonic Secrets (google search it) can assist you lost tons of weight. Has anyone tried this popular diet plan?
Absolutely thumbs up – thank you
Even plant matter have a defensive system that most people know nothing about. People can be ill for a great deal of their lives and have no idea their food is causing them the misery and pain until they remove almost everything from their diet and see what happens.
I let them all loose
So much of what you said hit home. The time I spent in South East Asia my gut was much better than in the USA
Diversity,Diversity,Diversity,Diversity,Diversity,
If microbiome begins with vaginal birth why aren’t twins more alike?
Masses of Quackery! You’ve got that right….
Thank you
This not even close see ‘biodiverse food study, Panama.’ Smart guy but no where near the study concludes
Hey Hey Hey! like your gut, it depends on what is placed in the back yard! Yeah Az. native. Great show by the way.
Nobody ever talks about getting the other microbiomes back
Hi, have you thought about this diet plan called the Custokebon Secrets? My cousin says it helps people lost plenty of weight. Is that possible? I also noticed many excellent review about this diet plan. Thoughts?
What if you have no large intestine?
What exactly is Okibetonic Secrets? How does this thing really work? I see many people keep on speaking about this popular lose weight methods.
Kefir can be harmful in ways if consumed too often.
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What if you have a whey intolerance and I can’t eat Onion and garlic due to ibs? What do you do ?
This is one of the best videos I have seen on this channel.
Can any tell me the effect that PPIs have on the microdome?
Also how to treat helicobacter without taking several antibiotics and destroying the gut balance?
Thank you
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Dr Spector thank you for this informative video. Do you think that how we eat our meals(fast, or slow) is an important factor to our stomach microbial health? Have there been studies done on eating slower, and our overall health?
Not at all to be off color here, but if most of the good bacteria in yogurt (and therefore also in kefir and kombucha) are destroyed as part of the digestive process, wouldn’t the sensible thing be to employ these substances as part of an enema routine?
Such an excellent explanation and everything is not as simple as it looks. Thanks Doc
Fantastic discussion so enlightening
Can the good bacteria in fermented foods survive through your stomach/acids? Might be wasted money.
So sad your first port of call was the great internet! A heart to heart with an old dietitian might have directed you elsewhere. We moved from restricted salt to a concept of DASH as part of hypertension approach. And whoever advised to count calories? Maybe save 500 calories a day ( a deficit ) the nearest we,d go…. But no info until we know about you….But – the medics finally getting interested . And funded! Good news.
Fantastic!
I was feeling very positive about this video until Tim casually mentioned experiments on animals where they are made to feel anxious or depressed
This guy is just trying to sell a product, instead of telling how to eat better.
Summarize someone please video?
Is always doctors with health issues that seem to be the most progressive. Dr Mark Hyman, and the doctor with MS whose name I have momentarily forgot.
Awesome video! We love talking about the gut microbiome, as the gut hosts about 70% of our immune system!
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I notice many people keep on speaking about Okibetonic Secrets. But I’m uncertain if it’s good. Have you ever try this popular lose weight method?
Grupos religiosos ? Hahaha… eu não conhecia o trabalho do prof. Tim, mas eu creio que foi Jesus que me enviou para ajudar a salva-los com a modulação da microbiota(Êxodo 12:8) e a regulação da resposta imunológica( João 9:1-7) usada pela minha família ,meu antepassados no Egito há muito mais de 1900 anos.. O problema é que apresentei para o governo de um mentiroso, manipulador compulsivo que não teme a Deus chamado Boris Johnson….hahaha… A ponto de pegar algo religioso de origem judia e fingir que surgiu dos livros de ciência….hahaha….parabéns nem na cadeia no Brasil tem trambiqueiros como no governo do Reino Unido.
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