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Today's clip is from episode 291 of the podcast with leading experts on the gut microbiome, Professor Tim Specter.

In this clip, Tim shares some of the latest gut health science,

along with his simple tips for building more gut-friendly foods into your diet.

Why is gut health so important?

Even if you feel perfectly normal, you can have poor gut health, which is going to affect

how long you live, how many chronic disease you get, whether you get allergies,

whether your immune system is going to fight off COVID, all kinds of things, your mood the next day,

your sleep, all things we hadn't even thought were related. So we have to think much more widely

when we talk about gut health. So it influences everything to do with our body, our mood, our brain,

and our metabolism, our weight, etc.

We know that we've lost half of our gut microbes compared to perhaps even 50 or 100 years ago,

and that's affecting us in many ways.

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