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Postcards From Midlife

Midlife weight gain, anxiety & diet: Gut guru Tim Spector joins the dots

Postcards From Midlife

Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin

Midlife Women, Women, 579985, Nutrition, Kids & Family, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Health, Relationships, Mental Health, Menopause, Culture, Fitness, Perimenopause, Lifestyle

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Professor Tim Spector, author of Spoon Fed and The Diet Myth reveals new research which shows how the gut microbiome affects women in perimenopause and menopause. He tells Trish & Lorraine why depression and anxiety may be 'infectious diseases" and how eating the right food will relieve symptoms and help you live longer.

PLUS: Your hosts test The Zoe programme and discover what is really going on with their own gut biomes. 


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0:20.2

My little friend, it is the longest and hottest day of the year,

0:25.5

and I notice you are holding a woolly covered hot water bottle to your person.

0:33.6

What strange explanation do we have for this, my highly sensitive person friend?

0:39.2

It's quite a look, isn't it?

0:40.9

I've got it sort of wedged in my chart.

0:43.2

I feel that might be cruel.

0:46.4

Well, obviously it's a bit of an old lady, a campaign, isn't it?

0:49.1

I've done something to menec, not sure what.

0:51.6

So it's feeling a bit stiff, not painful.

0:54.4

I'm gushing some weird pains down my arm, especially into my forearm.

0:58.6

So, I'm not having a heart attack live in front of me, are you?

1:02.4

Because I can't do anything.

1:03.8

I have no reach, of course, to do a bit of CPR.

1:09.2

No, don't worry.

1:10.8

It's definitely a sort of mushyly-nervy type of a situation,

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