Eat This, Not That: The Surprising Science of Personalized Nutrition (encore)

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Food, History, Arts

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This episode, we've got the exclusive on the preliminary results of the world's largest personalized nutrition experiment. Genetic epidemiologist Tim Spector launched the study, called PREDICT, to answer a simple but important question: do we each respond to different foods differently? And, if so, why? How much of that difference is genetic, how much is due to gut microbes, and how much is due to any one of the dozens of other factors that scientists think affect our metabolic processes? You’ve heard of personalized medicine, will there be such a thing as personalized diets? And should there be? Can teasing out the nuances of how each individual body processes different foods make us all healthier? To find out, we signed ourselves up as study participants, sticking pins in our fingers, weighing our food, and providing fecal samples, all for science—and for you, dear listeners. Listen in now as we take part in this ground-breaking study, discover our own differences, and find out the early results! (Encore episode) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You might have heard some buzz lately that maybe you need to be eating food that's different from what your spouse or your friends or even your siblings should be eating.
0:09.0	You need a different diet to be healthy.
0:11.0	This idea is called personalized nutrition. It's a
0:14.0	a growing trend and already a super lucrative industry.
0:17.0	But what's the science behind it?
0:19.0	Nicki and I took part in one of the very first human trials of personalized nutrition a few years ago and
0:25.0	thanks to our friends at American Express, we're able to share that experience with you all once again.
0:29.7	Enjoy this encore presentation and we'll be back in a week with another brand new episode for your listening delight. One, enjoy. Enjoy! Wow, enjoy was a little bit of an exaggeration.
0:48.0	They're even bluer inside. Like look at that color. It's not found in nature I'm going to say.
0:57.0	Okay my it's oily and sweet as my response.
1:00.0	It's left a little blue oil slick on the plate which is charming.
1:04.0	Yes, we ate muffins the color of a smurf, just for you, dear listeners, and for science.
1:11.0	It wasn't a muffin, it wasn't a meal, it was a metabolic challenge.
1:16.0	And our goal was to find out how our bodies, mine and yours, Cynthia,
1:21.0	responded differently to that challenge, how we handled those bright blue muffins.
1:26.4	We of course are Gastropod, the podcast that looks at food through the lens of science
1:29.8	and history.
1:30.8	I'm Cynthia Graber.
1:31.3	And I'm Nicola Twilly, and this episode we are doing an experiment alongside several hundred other people.
1:37.0	It's the world's largest nutrition study of its kind of personalized nutrition.
1:42.0	Tim Specter is the scientist running the study,
1:43.8	and of course you're going to hear a lot more from him
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