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🗓️ 11 October 2021
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Would you try the #BluePoopChallenge? On this episode of the Primal Kitchen Podcast hosted by Mark Sisson and Morgan Zanotti, Morgan takes a deep dive into the intricate research of prominent geneticist Dr. Tim Spector. He believes he's discovered the ultimate secret to health: the microbiome. His discoveries led him to co-found Zoe, a personalized medicine nutrition research company that brings together blood sugar, blood fat and microbiome information to predict a personal diet based on the user's body. Listen in as Morgan & Dr. Spector talk everything from the bathroom to the biome!
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0:00.0 | It's like a joke in our family. |
0:01.6 | We're like, oh, we're 20 minutes into dinner and Morgan hasn't brought up poop. |
0:07.3 | Hello, everyone. |
0:08.7 | Today, I am super excited to be sitting down with the world-renowned genetics professor, Dr. Tim Specter. |
0:14.3 | He's published more than 900 research articles and famous for his work studying twins, genetics, the microbiome, and diet. Most recently, he's |
0:22.6 | co-founded the Zoe Nutrition Company, an app that brings together blood sugar, blood fat, and microbiome |
0:28.5 | information. They are also the company behind the famous Blue Poop Challenge, which we're going to |
0:33.2 | learn more about today. And they recently introduced an award-winning COVID symptom study app that allows |
0:38.7 | millions of users to share their daily symptoms help us learn more about COVID-19 and its differences |
0:43.7 | from the common cold or the flu within 24 hours this app was downloaded over a million times so |
0:48.5 | we can't wait to hear how he achieved such success with that we're going to talk about the impact of the |
0:53.4 | microbiome the groundbreaking work the Zoe team |
0:55.7 | is doing on bringing that information into your living room. |
0:58.4 | Tim has written three books, spoon fed, identically different, and his most popular, the diet |
1:03.7 | myth. |
1:04.4 | Before we talk poop, COVID microbiome and twins, a quick reminder, any and all opinions |
1:09.1 | and views shared by hosts and guests on this |
1:11.1 | podcast are the speaker's own and do not represent the view of Primal Kitchen or its affiliates |
1:15.8 | or parent company. Who, hello, Tim. Hello. Hello. Finally, good to do. Yeah, I know. I was |
1:23.3 | joking with Tim before this that just the research alone it took to write his intro was exhausting for me. |
1:29.4 | So I'm thrilled to have Tim here. He's someone I've been most excited to talk to for all the reasons |
1:34.5 | mentioned above. So let's get into it. So Tim, you are famous for your study on twins. Tell us a little bit about that. |
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