THROWBACK - One Thing with Tim Spector

The Therapy Edit

Anna Mathur

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

4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On this guest THROWBACK episode of The Therapy Edit, Anna asks author, Zoe co-founder and Professor at Kings College London for his One Thing. Tim offers mums around the globe the advice that calories are meaningless when it comes to measuring how healthy your diet is.

Tim is one of the top 100 most cited scientists in the world and is the author of three books, the most recent of which is Food for Life.

You can learn more about Tim by following him on Instagram at @tim.spector and you learn more about the health and wellness website Zoe (which runs the largest in-depth nutritional science study to help you reach your best health) at @zoe

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0:00.0	This episode of The Therapy Edit is sponsored by M&S Food and their new Brainball.
0:05.7	The perfect snack for anyone with a brain.
0:08.8	Hello, I'm currently out of office.
0:13.0	An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break.
0:23.1	So I've gone to Barbados for a month for science.
0:31.1	Yours, Toby.
0:32.9	Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways holidays take your holiday.
0:38.5	Atoll protected.
0:46.1	Hello and welcome to the Therapy Edit podcast with me, psychotherapist Anna Martha. I love bringing bite-sized thoughts and conversations to support your well-being in your busy lives. Behind the
0:51.4	scenes, we are working on bringing you a whole new series, but in the meantime,
0:55.1	we have delved into the archives and will be sharing some of our most loved nuggets, light bulb
1:01.1	moments and powerful chats. I hope you enjoy them. Hello and welcome to today's guest
1:07.5	episode of The Therapy Edit. I'm really excited. Today I have with me, Tim Specter. Tim is
1:13.0	a professor of epidemiology at Kings. He is in charge of the Twins Research Unit, which I find
1:19.0	absolutely fascinating. He's a co-founder of personalized nutrition company Zoe and the author of
1:25.7	several books on nutrition and gut health, including some
1:29.0	Sunday Times bestsellers. His most recent book out now is called Food for Life, the new
1:34.5	science of eating well. And what I love is learning about the gut. And Tim is really passionate
1:40.0	about kind of researching the microbiome, the large community of microbes that live in our gut,
1:45.8	our skin and our body. And he shares hugely accessible science tackling urgent issues that matter
1:52.4	not just for our health, but for the future of our planet as well. So there we go. Tim,
1:58.2	hi. How are you? I'm great. What a lovely intro. Thank you.
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