There's actually a link between low-gut diversity and nearly every common chronic disease,

and that includes physical diseases, autoimmune diseases, food allergies,

you're at all bowel syndrome. It also includes mental illnesses and disorders, anxiety, depression, dementia, Alzheimer's.

So that's why it's a much better guide to your health than, say, a genetic test.

Tim Specter is professor of epidemiology at King's College London.

He might just be able to tell how healthy you are by looking at your gut microbiome diversity.

A big welcome back to the Lizzo Well-being show, the podcast helping us all have a better second half.

I'm Lizz L and yeah I know you know I am on a bit of a mission to find ways for all of us to thrive in our later life by investing in our

health and our well-being today. Now as we speak I am actually at a fasting clinic so

it was very interesting and very topical to have quite a deep dive here

literally not into just the microbiome but also into fasting time-restricted

eating the impact of food on so many of our bodily functions,

mental, physical, emotional and more. Well fasting is one of the principles actually

that Tim suggests if we're looking at things like time restricted

eating that's that window in which we eat our food and if we really want to optimize our health

so we'll come back to the science behind that in a bit, as well as his thoughts on why quality of food matters, far more than calories.

Tim is, as you may know, the co-founder of Science and Nutrition Company Zoe,

which is actually the Greek word, meaning life.

So it's no surprise then that his latest book is called The Food for Life cookbook, and it's filled with knowledge and recipes

that will really nourish your body and satisfy your soul. Today is the day with Tim's help that we can all start making better food choices. This episode is brought to you by Wild Nutrition.

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