Hello everyone, I'm Jamie Lang and this is Great Moments.

Hey guys, welcome back. Now today's great moment is with Professor Tim Spector, who I can now call a friend.

He's the founder of Zoe, the health app, and is one of kind of the most

fascinating scientists out there. Now, on this podcast, I love speaking to a variety of different

people and I love speaking to experts and Tim didn't disappoint. He completely, and I'm being

honest with you, he completely changed the way I think about food and inspired me to eat better.

So trust me, this is going to blow your mind.

Okay, so here we go. Enjoy this great moment with Professor Tim Specter.

But, but, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Got I'm fascinated with, right? And I think this is one of the big things, like you said, that recently people are obsessed

with because what we're putting in our bodies affects our brain.

However, you do have people who don't believe that still.

And they think that there is no correlation between the gut and our brain and the decline of mental health.

Can you talk to me about that and the sort of data that surrounds it?

Yes.

Well, I think everyone believes there's a connection, but there'd be other scientists that

said it's rather trivial and hasn't been proven yet.

Whereas, you know, and these are people who are perhaps embedded in more solid

areas of science like genetics. So, well, you know, you can explain it all. People are generally

distrustful in science of new areas that they haven't been trained in. And initial thing is

you just say that's a fad, or that's driven by commercial interests.

So you're creating something just in order to sell some probiotics or something.

But there's no doubt there are very clear gut-brain interactions.

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