Your Trickiest Healthy Eating Qs, Answered: Weight Loss, Protein, Gut Health, Longevity, And More

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

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

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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The internet is full of misleading and unfounded claims about how to eat healthily. Nutritional science is an ever-changing field, and Dr. Tim Spector is in the top 1% of cited doctors in the world. It’s his mission to improve our lives by improving our diets. Dr. Spector helps us cut through confusion and myths and break down the science that tells us how we can best eat for health, wellness, and longevity. Food is responsible for more of our health than we may realize, but we are constantly being sold ultra-processed and nutritionally poor food choices. Dr. Spector wants you to get back to the basics, stop calorie counting, and focus on your gut microbiome by incorporating more diversity and more plants into your diet. 4:50 Are Calories Overemphasized? 16:09 Regulating & Fixing Your Gut Microbiome 20:56 The Effects of Milk 27:29 Protein Myths 36:29 Processed vs. Ultra-Processed Foods 41:41 Is Bread Part of a Healthy Diet? 45:01 Meat’s Impact on Your Microbes 48:51 Action Steps for Weight Loss 57:34 Why Are Cancer Rates Rising? 1:06:03 Probiotics and Your Gut 1:11:17 Benefits of Coffee & Mushrooms For more from Tim, you can find him on Instagram @tim.spector, and over on the ZOE Science & Nutrition podcast and Youtube channel. Pick up a copy of his latest book, The Food for Life Cookbook: 100+ Recipes Created with ZOE, where books are sold. Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast. Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody or online at www.lizmoody.com. Subscribe to the substack by visiting https://lizmoody.substack.com/welcome If you like this episode, check out Ask the Doctors: An Exact Plan For When You Get Sick (+ How To Prevent It In The First Place). This episode is sponsored by: LMNT: go to DrinkLMNT.com/LizMoody to get a free LMNT sample pack with any order. IQ Bar: Text LIZ to 64000 for 20% off all IQBAR products plus FREE shipping. Puori: go to puori.com/LIZMOODY and use promo code LIZMOODY for 20% sitewide. The Liz Moody Podcast cover art by Zack. The Liz Moody Podcast music by Alex Ruimy. Formerly the Healthier Together Podcast. This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions. The Liz Moody Podcast Episode 293. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tim Specter, welcome to the podcast.
0:02.0	Great to be here.
0:03.0	They want to focus on calories, so that's all that counts.
0:05.0	And that distracts us from the fact that we should be eating higher quality food.
0:09.0	And that's really what's killing us.
0:11.0	Everyone needs to know about gut microbes and gut health if they're going to seriously make a big change to their diet and be healthy.
0:19.0	The studies I've read suggest that fiber is much better at reducing hunger than actually
0:25.6	having protein.
0:26.6	As I said, there's a real link between poor diet, poor gut microbes, poor immune health,
0:32.1	and then risk of cancers.
0:33.6	In your mind, what is the biggest myth that's out there right now about eating well?
0:38.9	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Liz Moody podcast, where every week we're sharing real
0:42.9	science, real stories, and realistic tools that actually level up every part of your life.
0:47.8	I'm your host, Liz Moody, and I am a best-selling author and longtime journalist.
0:51.8	And today, I am joined by Dr. Tim Specter. Tim is a rheumatologist, an
0:56.4	epidemiologist. He is a professor of epidemiology at King's College London. He's the author of
1:01.8	multiple books, including Food for Life and the Food for Life cookbook. And this is so impressive,
1:08.0	he has published over 900 papers in some of the world's top scientific journals,
1:13.8	and he is one of the top 100 most cited scientists in the world. That is just so cool, so mind-blowing.
1:21.9	He is also the scientific director at Zoe, which is a company that runs the world's largest
1:26.8	in-depth nutrition study,
1:28.4	and then it turns that research into a personalized program that gives you insights into how
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