077 - Spoon-Fed: Food & Tim Spector - Tim Spector & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
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🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Tim Spector is a Professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College in London and also co-founder of Zoe. In this podcast, Dr Louise Newson talks to Tim about his newly published book, Spoon-Fed. This ground-breaking and informative book really leads the reader to question their current diet and their relationship with food.
Dr Newson and Tim discuss the importance of gut health and gut biodiversity, in particular with respect to our mental and physical health. Many diseases could be prevented by having the right knowledge of food and cooking from scratch rather than eating processed foods. They also talk about simple ways to improve health and nutrition. We are all individuals and our way of eating can be individualised to optimise our health.
Tim Spector's Three Take Home Tips:
- Try and eat 30 plants a week, that includes nuts, seeds and herbs. Think diverse!
- Have some fermented foods every day. Think the Three K's: Kombucha, Kefir and Kimchi but also yoghurt and cheese.
- Look at fasting and the timing of how you eat. The longer you can rest your microbes overnight, the better your metabolism is. Trying to rest between 12 and 14 hours a night can really help you.
Click here to find out more about Tim's new book 'Spoon-Fed'
Find Tim on Instagram: @tim.spector
Twitter: @timspector
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Neuson Health Menopause podcast. I'm Dr. Louise Newson, a GP and menopause |
| 0:15.8 | specialist and I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity. In addition, I run the Newston Health |
| 0:22.5 | Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 0:31.6 | So today I'm very privileged and excited that I have another male guest, actually, which is |
| 0:37.2 | always good, But I have |
| 0:38.7 | with me a Professor Tim Specter, who is a professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College in London. |
| 0:45.2 | He also is a co-founder of Zoe. And in addition, he's the author of two incredible books. One is called |
| 0:52.7 | Diet Myth. And the most recent one is called spoon-fed, |
| 0:57.7 | why almost everything you've been told about food is wrong. So welcome, Tim. Thanks for |
| 1:02.6 | joining me today. Hello there. It's a pleasure. So I read your Diet Myth book a few years ago. |
| 1:08.9 | When did it come out now? it's about five years old now yeah |
| 1:12.9 | there's a edition coming out actually in a few weeks which is brilliant so actually i had pancreatitis |
| 1:19.1 | about six years ago and i don't drink alcohol i'm not in medical school i'm sure you were the |
| 1:24.6 | same you were taught it was 40 fair 40, fair, fat. There's |
| 1:28.0 | different female. There's lots of Fs. More likely to have gallstones, which can contribute to |
| 1:33.2 | pancreatitis, but I didn't have gallstones either. So I was doing a lot of experimenting with my diet |
| 1:38.7 | at the time, and my diet's always been very healthy. But actually, reading your book was quite a game |
| 1:43.4 | changer because I just ended nodding all the way through But actually, reading your book was quite a game changer because I just ended |
| 1:46.0 | nodding all the way through actually and thinking, gosh, this is incredible that you've written |
| 1:51.2 | so clearly and so beautifully, but in a way that everyone can understand. Because it's very hard, |
| 1:58.8 | I think, sometimes you read a medical book, |
| 2:01.4 | and often it's wrong about diet, and then you read a book for women or for men that isn't |
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