Hey there, this is Ari. Welcome back to the Energy Blueprint podcast. With me now for the second time is actually one of my personal favorite guests. His name is Dr. Tim Specter. He is a professor of genetic epidemiology and director of the Twins UK Registry at King's College, London,

and has recently been elected to the prestigious fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

He has published over 800 research articles and is ranked as being in the top 1% of the world's

most cited scientists. And like I said, I'm very excited to have him on for the second time.

What's really interesting right now is one of the things we talked about in the previous

podcast, which was on the interface of genetics

and nutrition, is Dr. Spector's work with something called the Zoe app, the Z-O-E app, which

is involved in his research around the interface of genetics and nutrition.

What's fascinating is he is now kind of repurposed, or I guess that's too strong of a

word, but he's in addition to using it for that other purpose, he's using it also now to collect

a mountain of data on COVID-19. So we're going to be talking about that and his insights into

COVID-19. So welcome to the show again, Dr. Specter, such a pleasure to have you.

Thanks for having me back, Ari.

It's a pleasure.

Yeah.

So I guess give people the overview very briefly of the Zoe app and how you're now using it to collect data on COVID-19 and you know what kinds of

data have you accumulated over the last several months.

Okay, well, it's an interesting story.

So for the last three years, I as one of the co-founders of Zoe,

who has been working by doing real time trials of people,

and we've looked at thousands of people, mainly twins,

coming through my hospital here in London and a few in Boston,

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