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The Primal Kitchen Podcast

02: Personalize Your Diet with Microbiome Expert Dr. Tim Spector

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4717 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

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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