That Gut Feeling: Part Two
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dan Saladino returns to the world of the gut microbiota, the vast array of microbes within us all. From the Amazon Basin to East Africa to the life underneath our feet; food will never be quite the same again.
Featuring Tim Spector, author of The Diet Myth, Jeff Leach, co-founder of the American Gut Project, microbiome scientist Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, food professor and author Ken Albala, and DJs Lisa and Alana Macfarlane - aka The Mac Twins.
Presenter: Dan Saladino Producer: Rich Ward.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio 4's The Food Program. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to our world, from cooking to culture, politics to pleasure. |
| 0:10.0 | We hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:12.0 | Time now for this week's edition of the Food Program, and Dan Saladino continues his investigation into the gut microbiome, a story of food and microbes. |
| 0:22.0 | Excuse me, Neil. |
| 0:23.0 | Um, yeah, is that you, Dan? Hello. |
| 0:26.0 | Before you go and I get underway, can I ask a very quick favour? |
| 0:30.0 | Sure, yeah. |
| 0:31.0 | Would you mind reading this? |
| 0:32.0 | Let's look. |
| 0:33.0 | Eh, okay now, dear Radio 4 listeners, this edition of the food programme will take you deep |
| 0:39.9 | into the human digestive system and so if you're either nervous disposition or find certain bodily functions embarrassing and you also happen to be cooking or about to eat it might be good idea just to stop for the next 25 minutes or so. |
| 0:54.8 | And just listen. |
| 0:55.8 | Sounds like good advice, is that it, Dan? |
| 0:58.8 | Perfect Neil and very well read as always. |
| 1:01.8 | Good to get that warning out of the way. Because this is the second |
| 1:05.2 | installment in our adventures into the gut microbiome and some difficult listening does lie ahead. |
| 1:11.5 | It'll be worth it though and I should add that some people have put |
| 1:15.1 | everything on the line for this story. Was it smart to do? Absolutely not. Was it |
| 1:20.1 | interesting to do? Yes and that's why I did it. |
| 1:22.6 | Remember this guy? Well, to me, he's the Indiana Jones of our gut microbes. |
| 1:27.6 | We ended program one with him lying under a Beerbab tree in remote Tanzania looking up at the stars. |
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