508: Everything You've Been Told About Food Is Wrong! | Tim Spector
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/508timspector
Tim Spector (IG: @tim.spector) is a medically qualified Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the TwinsUK registry at King’s College London.
His current work focuses on the microbiome and nutrition, and he is co-founder of the data science company ZOE.
Today we’re discussing Tim's new book, Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well.
Stick around and learn how to eat right to optimize your health!
In this episode, we discuss:
- How Tim’s diet has evolved over the years
- What a typical day of eating looks like for Tim
- The latest research on time-restricted eating
- Calorie-restricted eating vs. time-restricted eating
- Realistic advice for weight loss
- The danger of short-term dieting and avoiding carbs
- The 30-plant rule
- Eat foods high in polyphenols
- The truth about antioxidants
- Health benefits of postbiotics
- How short-chain fatty acids are produced
- The connection between the immune system and the gut
- The best foods to include for gut health
- Eat more mushrooms!
- Why you should use extra virgin olive oil
- The best oils to cook with
- Common factors that destroy your gut microbiome
- Choose organic when eating plants
- Polyphenols help defend plants
- Tim's thoughts on the carnivore diet
- The major factors that affect the skin microbiome
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Listen or watch Tim Spector previously on TUHP (episode #484)
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. That's one of the big things about why we believe that eating fire was important. |
| 0:08.3 | Nothing to do with cleansing our digestive tract or repairing or, you know, |
| 0:16.0 | paying fast transit times, it's the fact that this allows all these short-chain fatty acids to be produced, |
| 0:21.8 | which we know that is health-generally healthy. People have high levels of of these short-chain fatty acids, |
| 0:27.6 | naturally, are much healthier and tend to be thinner and have less diseases. |
| 0:33.3 | So it's increasingly used as a marker of good health. |
| 0:42.4 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast episode 508. I'm Jesse Chapis and I'm here to take your |
| 0:47.6 | health to the next level. Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health and wellness |
| 0:52.2 | leaders from around the world. This week Tim Specter is back on the show. Tim is a medically |
| 0:56.8 | qualified professor of epidemiology and director of the twins UK registry at King's College London. |
| 1:03.6 | His current work focuses on the microbiome and nutrition and he's the co-founder of the data science |
| 1:08.8 | company Zoe. Today we're discussing his new book Food for Life, The New Science of Eating Well. |
| 1:15.0 | Stick around and learn how to eat right to optimize your health. Highlights of our conversation |
| 1:19.9 | include how Tim's diets evolved over the years, what a typical day of eating looks like for Tim, |
| 1:25.9 | realistic advice for weight loss. Tim's thoughts on the carnivore diet and the major factors |
| 1:31.9 | that affect the skin microbiome. As always, if you'd prefer to watch versus listen, |
| 1:36.8 | this full conversation is available over on YouTube. You can get there by going to |
| 1:40.5 | ultimatehealthpodcast.com slash YouTube. Be sure and subscribe while you're there so you don't |
| 1:45.2 | miss any of the future episodes as well. If when you get to the end of this episode, you can think |
| 1:49.9 | of somebody or life that could benefit from this information. They need a little bit of tuning up |
| 1:54.3 | in the realm of their diet and nutrition. Please share the episode with them, help them along |
| 1:59.1 | their health journey and help the show continue to grow. Thank you ahead of time. Without further ado, |
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