Moment 145: The Alarming Link Between Your GUT & Depression: Tim Spector

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🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In this week’s moment, gut health and diet expert Dr Tim Spector discusses the power of the microbiome, your crucial community of gut microbes. Discoveries about the microbiome have exploded in the last 10 years and revolutionised the way we see the tiny bugs living within our intestine. Tim sees the microbiome as an incredible pharmacy within us, as individual microbes pump out vital chemicals for your immune system. These chemicals also affect brain function and your moods, playing a vital role in depression, as this is directly linked to the quality of your gut microbes. How do you improve your microbiome? Food plays a vital role in feeding microbes, Tim says the key is to consume as diverse a range of plants as possible, aiming for 30 different types of plants a week to maximise the diversity of species in your gut. Listen To The Full Episode Here - https://g2ul0.app.link/zvl4zqtbtGb Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Tim Spector: https://www.instagram.com/tim.spector/?hl=en-gb https://tim-spector.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is the microbiome?
0:05.3	It's the word we use for the community of gut microbes.
0:09.1	These are microscopic bugs in our intestines and it's a biome because it's like this jungle
0:17.8	community it's a lots of different species altogether thousands of them that coexist in our lower
0:25.4	intestine our colon and they it's like we've discovered in the last 10 years a new organ in our bodies. If you put
0:35.4	them all together they weigh about the same as our brain. Okay so it's that's
0:39.5	mind-boggling really to think about all these bugs which individually are tiny putting
0:46.4	together they actually weigh several pounds so you can either think
0:51.4	them as a as a microbial garden but increasingly I'm shifting
0:55.2	that towards thinking as an incredible pharmacy so all of them are able to
1:01.2	pump out chemicals all the time that are vital for our body.
1:07.0	So thousands of different chemicals are pumped out every minute by these gut microbes when they're fed the right foods and these
1:16.4	chemicals are key for our immune system. Most of our immune system is actually in
1:21.0	our gut. We didn't most people don't know that. We think it's
1:24.2	you know under our armpits or somewhere but actually all the immune cells are
1:30.5	actually talking all the time to our gut microbes through these chemicals and
1:35.5	that our immune system obviously is crucial for a whole body and fighting aging and
1:40.6	cancer, COVID infections, allergies, all these kind of things.
1:45.4	So then you've also got the microbes can produce chemicals that affect the brain
1:50.1	and will make the difference between you being happy or sad or we know that they're vital in depression.
1:59.0	Important for regulating how much you eat, your appetite, when you feel full.
2:04.2	They also provide key vitamins for you,
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