#298: David Zeevi, PhD – Genes of Gut Microbes & Inter-Individual Variation in Glucose Response

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🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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David Zeevi is an independent research fellow at Rockefeller University in New York. His current work focuses on developing computational methods for studying microbial ecology in the human gut and in the marine environment, and its contribution to human and environmental health.

Previously he completed his PhD at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel under Prof. Eran Segal, studying the human microbiome and its effect on host health and personalized nutrition. He was lead author on two important studies to come from the lab, published in Nature and Cell respectively.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Sigma Nutrition Radio, the podcast that brings you conversations about
0:05.2	nutritional and health sciences. And as always, I am your host, Danny Lennon. One thing that a lot of
0:13.4	us acknowledge and that we say quite often is how there is no one right diet for everyone,
0:23.6	that we all respond differently, that we're all unique, there's no one size fits all, and various different lines like this, to get at the same idea that our response to food and diets is different,
0:35.6	and therefore we should strive to find what is best for us.
0:40.2	However, a lot of time that can be left to be maybe just sound bites and paying lip service to it.
0:46.4	How deep do we really take this idea and how do we look at that in terms of the things we
0:51.7	choose to believe about how we respond to nutrition.
0:56.3	One of the papers that illuminated this idea most clearly and is one of the most beautiful
1:02.9	and comprehensive papers that I've came across is one that I've mentioned a couple of times
1:08.0	in seminars before, for those who have attended some of my previous
1:12.0	seminars, and came out of Israel in 2015, published in Cell, and I'm delighted that the lead
1:19.8	author of that paper, David Zeevi, is finally on the podcast, and someone have wanted to talk to
1:25.0	for quite a period of time, because not only is this paper,
1:29.1	as you'll hopefully see in today's discussion, just absurdly comprehensive and thought through,
1:35.7	but gives us some really interesting findings that we really have to think about the implications
1:41.5	of. And David's a really interesting guy. He's now an
1:45.7	independent research fellow over at Rockefeller University in New York, and he straddles these two worlds
1:51.7	of biology and computer science, and his expertise in those areas allows him to work on projects
1:58.8	like the paper that we're going to discuss today.
2:01.6	Not only are we going to look at that 2015 paper, but there's also been a new paper from just a few months back earlier this year in 2019,
2:09.6	where again, David was the lead author on and the same group published a paper in nature.
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