Personalize Your Nutrition with Dr. Tim Spector

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We generally focus on topics related to mental health, but there's nothing like a pandemic to throw the importance of our physical health into sharp relief! Today Forrest is joined by Dr. Tim Spector to explore the importance of personalizing your nutrition, how our diet can help fight COVID, and why most everything we've been told about food is wrong. About Our Guest: Dr. Tim Spector is professor of genetic epidemiology and Director of the TwinsUK Registry at Kings College, London. He’s also one of the leaders of the COVID Symptom Study, and one of the founders of the health science company Zoe . He's the author of The Diet Myth, and his most recent book is Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told about Food is Wrong. Life After COVID Summit: Join Dr. Rick Hanson, Forrest Hanson, and a roster of world-class experts during this FREE three-day online event to explore our life after COVID. Click here to learn more about the Summit and register now. Key Topics: 2:05: What is the microbiome? 4:10: How diet interacts with your unique microbiome. 6:45: The PREDICT 1 study, and the limited impact of genetics. 9:30: Why personalized nutrition is so important. 12:00: The meaningless nature of calorie counts. 17:00: Running experiments with your nutrition. 22:30: Microbes and mood. 24:40: Intermittent fasting. 30:15: The role of processed food. 35:15: The microbiome and COVID. 41:00: Polyphenols. 43:00: Vitamins and COVID. 48:50: Recap If you're interested in any of Zoe's offerings, Tim offered the discount code BEINGWELL35 for our listeners. Sponsors: From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/BEINGWELL and get a free trial of their Premium Membership. Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Connect with the show: Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Being Well. I'm Forest Hanson. If you're new to the podcast, this is
0:12.1	where we explore the practical science of lasting well-being. And if you've listened before,
0:16.9	welcome back.
0:17.9	I've been looking forward to today's conversation for a while. We generally focus on topics
0:22.4	related to mental health on the podcast, but there's no doubt that our physical health
0:26.6	plays an enormous role in our ability to lead a fulfilling life. And there's nothing
0:31.4	quite like a pandemic to throw that into sharp relief. That's why I'm so happy to be joined
0:36.3	today by one of the world's leading nutritional scientists, who is also heavily involved
0:41.5	in one of the world's largest ongoing studies of COVID, Dr. Tim Specter. Dr. Specter is
0:47.1	a professor of genetic epidemiology and the director of the twins UK registry at King's
0:52.2	College London. Twins UK is a scientific study of over 14,000 identical and non-identical
0:58.4	twins that's been running for nearly three decades. Much of Dr. Specter's current work focuses
1:03.6	on the study of the gut's microbiome. He's also one of the leaders of the COVID symptom
1:08.0	study, a fantastic ongoing study that includes doctors and scientists at Mass General, the Harvard
1:14.1	School of Public Health, the Stanford University School of Medicine, of course, King's College
1:18.6	London and the Health Science Company Zoe, which Dr. Specter is one of the founders of.
1:23.8	Finally, he's the author of a number of wonderful books, including The Diet Myth,
1:28.2	identically different, and his most recent book, Spoon Fad, Why Almost Everything We've Been
1:33.4	Told About Food Is Wrong. So Tim, thanks again for taking the time to do this today. How are
1:38.2	you doing? It's great. That's a pleasure. Again, thanks so much for being here. I've been really
1:42.8	looking forward to the conversation. As I kind of mentioned during the intro, there are a lot of
1:47.8	different places that we could start with you. You are an extremely knowledgeable person,
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