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The Lovejoy Hour

Ep. 81 – PROFESSOR TIM SPECTOR – The Truth Behind Diets – INTERVIEW SPECIAL

The Lovejoy Hour

Lovejoy

Society & Culture, Football, Sports

4.6767 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2018

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

This week Tim Lovejoy talks to professor of genetics, expert on gut microbes and author, Tim Spector. Whilst chatting about Tim’s latest book The Diet Myth, they discuss the importance of microbes in our guts and what they actually do, the truth about diets and how other peoples poo can be good for you.
If you would like to contact us then our email address is [email protected] or you can tweet Tim @timlovejoy
Tim’s books are available here - https://amzn.to/2Luptyo
And he is on Twitter here - @timspector

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0:00.0

Welcome to the award-winning dear Lovejoy podcast and it's a special.

0:06.9

And today's guest is Tim Spector, Professor Tim Spector, who is a professor of genetics.

0:15.5

And the reason why we got Tim on is because you lot asked me to get him on and I researched him and saw that he was

0:24.1

a thoroughly interesting person so request him to come on the show he's written this book called

0:28.8

the diet myth the real science behind what we eat um I got this book about three days ago

0:34.3

and I knew with the general idea of it because I'd researched him online but I have sped red this sped red sped red I speed read it yeah all the way through it it's

0:42.9

absolutely fascinating he basically tells us the research on every single different aspect of food

0:52.5

and dieting for everything even fasting all those sorts of

0:56.4

things that he spent a lot i won't go too much into it but he spent a won't tell how long we spent

1:01.2

a very long time on it and he did a lot of the things to himself yes as well as data and research

1:06.2

this is a book that he's tested out on himself it's another long one because we cover a lot of ground.

1:12.7

However, I do think it's important that we covered a lot of ground.

1:15.6

Yes.

1:16.2

Because we've got the four-rounded.

1:18.6

You're getting your money's worth.

1:20.0

You're getting your money's worth.

1:21.0

All right, let's meet him.

1:22.0

This is in my kitchen, which is the best place you can talk about diets.

1:26.4

This is Tim Spector. it does right into dear love joy Tim, thank you so much for coming into my kitchen today.

1:52.1

I don't know if you know this, whether you've been told, but you've been requested a lot

1:55.8

by our listeners.

1:56.6

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