Doctor Tim Spector: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science)

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Coffee is good for you, but orange juice is bad for you, and supposedly ‘healthy’ food isn’t healthy. The food doctor is here to set the record straight on the perfect diet. In this new episode Steven sits down again with the world-renowned nutritional expert, Dr Tim Spector OBE. Dr Spector is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London, and is the director of the Twins UK study. He is also co-founder of the in-depth nutritional analysis company, Zoe. He is the author of the bestselling books, ‘Food for Life’ , ‘The Diet Myth’, and ‘Spoon Fed’. In this conversation Tim and Steven discuss topics, such as: Why he started talking in public about food His initial research focused on genes and obesity Starting to think about his own mortality The benefits of improving diet and gut health The diseases linked to poor nutrition How food impacts mood and energy Obesity only being a small side effect of poor diet The impact a poor diet can have in your future The importance of the speed and when you eat The impact of the menopause of the gut microbiome Why quality of food is more important than quantity Foods impact on fertility and libido Why supplements like protein are not necessary What is fibre How 95% people are not eating enough fibre Tim’s health hacks The importance of a healthy microbiome The benefits of fermented food Why different countries have better gut microbiomes The negative impacts of Ultra Processed Foods Why unhealthy snacking can impact a healthy diet The worst time for snacking How there is a snack epidemic and the need to change it Why healthy food doesn’t have health labels Perfect food habits The need to follow the 80/20 principle around diet Why coffee is good for you and improves your health How coffee is better for you than orange juice What diet advice has he changed his mind on Why drinking lots of water is not necessary Tim’s daily food routine Why certain fruits are better for you than others How there needs to be more nuisance to diet advice Why the carnivore diet is wrong Is artificial sweetener worse than sugar The truth about weight loss and need for sustainability His thoughts on Ozempic The need to stop thinking about calories and focus on food quality The benefits and negatives of not drinking alcohol The link between sleep and the microbiome His views on fasting You can purchase Tim’s most recent book, ‘Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well’, here: https://amzn.to/3ZLrpsX Follow Tim: Instagram: https://bit.ly/46vt340 Twitter: https://bit.ly/3VG0zil You can listen to Zoe's podcast here: https://link.chtbl.com/RYf17sA7 Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now: https://smarturl.it/DOACbook Follow me: Instagram: http://bit.ly/3nIkGAZ Twitter: http://bit.ly/3ztHuHm Linkedin: https://bit.ly/41Fl95Q Telegram: http://bit.ly/3nJYxST Sponsors: https://www.eightsleep.com/uk/steven/ CODE: STEVEN (save $150 on the Pod Cover) Huel: https://g2ul0.app.link/G4RjcdKNKsb http://joinzoe.com with an exclusive code CEO10 for 10% off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I brought everything that I could find in the supermarket that was making a claim that it was good for me
0:05.4	And I want you to take a look at it that Tim's vector is definitely
0:09.6	Healthy or not avoid that one terrible complete rubbish not as bad as the other one, but bid
0:16.4	We're gonna unravel all these secrets the return of the world's biggest
0:20.9	Got a little expert professor Tim the specter. He's an award-winning scientist best-selling author and he's co-founder of the company Zoe the home
0:27.8	Kid the personalized nutrition. Everything I'm about to throughout you has a whole industry of people behind it
0:33.2	The first one is protein supplements
0:37.0	Protein is massively hyped most people are having nearly twice as much protein in their diets as they need and most of it will be
0:43.5	Converted to sugars and fat coffee. It's definitely a health food and you'll live longer mouthwash
0:48.1	You're more prone to infection and actually worse smelling breath long term really yes
0:52.8	No hard data that you should be drinking eight glasses of water per day
0:56.6	Ten minutes in the sun will get you all the vitamin D you need and there's some actual data
1:00.5	Showing that if you've got too much excess fat on your body exercise alone is a terrible way to deal with it
1:05.7	You need something radical you and many others like you are a victim of marketing
1:09.7	But we are in a fiber crisis. We think only about one in 20 people are getting enough fiber for good health as a dramatic
1:16.4	Effect on avoiding cancers mental health and your longevity so you brought this yep
1:22.0	That's the magic potion a handful of that you reduce your risk of death by 14 15 percent two handfuls of 30 percent and it's incredibly easy to do so
1:40.5	Tim what is the um benefit to me if I
1:47.4	Change the way that I'm eating and start thinking through the lens of my gut microbiome and start taking the advice that you talk about in your books
1:54.1	What is the benefits both in me and society in terms of statistical like outcomes? Look, why does it matter?
2:01.1	It matters because we are suffering an epidemic of common chronic diseases
2:05.4	So we're getting increases in cancer heart disease
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