The Microbiome Doctor: Doctors Were Wrong! The 3 Foods You Should Eat For Perfect Gut Health!

Studies show but if you are flossing you can reduce your risk of dementia by nearly half. Which is quite impressive. So I started to research the brain much more and it made me realise this link with the brain and the gut is absolutely crucial and how that influences many things in our brain. For example, things like depression, mood changes, fatigue and energy. But for 40 years we've been going down the wrong path. We've got so distracted by treating the Brain is something so different to the rest of the body. So what do we do about it if we want to have optimally healthy brains? So Professor Tim Spector is one of the top one hundred most cited scientists worldwide, and he's back to reveal the critical role our gut plays with our physical and mental health, our cognition, and the prevention of chronic disease. we can dramatically improve our lives and our health just by making the right food choices. And I've got eight rules for gut health which work for all health. So first thing, pivot your protein, then there's quality not calories. The whole idea of assessing food by calories is wrong. Calorie restricted diets have been shown for the vast majority of people not to work, your hunger signals go up and hunger is the main driver of obesity. And we'll get into the other ones.

And what about coffee? So drinking between two and five cups of coffee reduces your risk of heart disease by about twenty five percent. And then what do you think of almonds? So there's lots of studies showing they're good for your cognition and mood. And what about your views on GLP ones like a ZenPeg? I think from a public health perspective, they're gonna transform medicine and we ought to be taken much more seriously, but I've got two real worries about them. My f first worry is that Just give me thirty seconds of your time. Two things I wanted to say. The first thing is a huge thank you for listening and tuning into the show week after week. It means the world to all of us, and this really is a dream that we absolutely never had and couldn't have imagined getting to this place. But secondly, it's a dream where we feel like we're only just getting started.

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