I'd like to put a good word in for the Zoe Nutrition program. I'm on about week 10 and enjoying how it has transformed my life. I'm eating much better and rarely get hungry. I journal everything that I eat which might be cumbersome for some people. One benefit so far is that my weight has decreased by 17 pounds. Weight loss was not my goal initially but it's been nice not having to squeeze into my clothes.

Great tips thank you! I read recently that walking amongst trees, forests, nature and by the ocean is also good for your gut microbiome too. Just breating in the air in these places is having a positive effect in your gut. 😚

I watched this video whilst baking my own sourdough. Over the past few months I have added 7+ different flours to the recipe - organic wholewheat and spelt to the starter and then organic stoneground white, organic dark and light rye, organic einkorn and an organic Irish soda bread flour. The taste is amazing and it's an easy way to add diversity into your diet. I also make my own kimchi using cabbage, carrots, cauliflower and a mix of spices like fresh ginger, black pepper corns and chilli flakes. A handful of mixed nuts each day also adds to the plant diversity :)

I also have a diversity jar that contains mixed crushed nuts and every type of seed and grain that I can buy in bulk from our local wholefood co-op. I always start my day with a couple of spoonfulls (which I soak for at least 30 mins in order to make the nutrients more bio-abvailable) with either active plain yoghurt or kefir and mixed berries.

I eat a massive salad for breakfast. It takes me over 1 hour to make it but it has tofu brussel sprouts broccoli all kinds of spices and about 15 to 20 different vegetables. I throw that into a whole grain tortilla with a tiny bit of meat. During the day I eat all kinds of fruits Etc. I'm 72 years old and the last time I went for a medical checkup was almost 50 years ago. I don't even renew my health card and I exercise 4 to 5 days a week since I was a teenager.

Love these tips, but don't forget that veggies and fruit should still be *priority #1* 😉 Don't get all your plant diversity from grains, nuts, and seeds.

“I don’t have all your free time…” is a bit cheeky, Tim

I have all of your books,and I eat what you recommend. I hope it will help with my depression. Thank you x

The music is dreadfully offputting, as manic guitar playing distracts from the voices. Sorry! Fab video though. What is in that diversity jar? Thank you for your work. Xxxxx

Would love to know what the contents of the "Diversity Jar" are!

Please be careful advising people to get a dog. They are a huge commitment and if not in a suitable home can actually cause a lot of stress.

Great video! Lots of new ideas and inspiration, so thank you! ☺

Great video! Kimchi & home brewed ginger beer making here today.. going to use the ‘waste’ ginger from the brewing bug in my kimchi recipe for the first time. Tip for anyone making kimchi is adding a bit of soft fruit (pear, fig, whatever is cheap on the market stall) in the chilli, garlic & ginger sauce. A touch of sweet to go with the sour, makes a world of difference..maybe it helps get the fermentation process kicked off too.

Great tips and those chocolate buns look amazing!

thank you very much......great info!! nicely presented, easy to relate to you two both...thx

I have made mixed grain salads for years. Spelt, berries, rye, berries, eincorn berries., Cook, cool, add sweet onions, apple cider vinegar, olive oil, sometime is pumpkin seed delicious. Also, try making sourdough bread with kefir . It works exceedingly well.

The music in the background is really distracting. Maybe it's the type of music? Anyway, I find it very hard to listen to this, in fact I can't. Please, can we just have quiet when you're talking? I really value these videos though

Great information and presentation. Thank you.

Great information, would love the recipes for the cakes 😁

Very interesting thanks for the tips.

The impractcality of this advice for the majority of the population is staggering.

Easy to understand and implement.

I love the dogs on the thumbnail

I love this,! Thanks for sharing 😊🙏🏼

This makes sense today. I have been doing my plant count for the week rather than days. So today I focused on your advice and quite easily managed to reach 30 on the first day, and I will certainly be well over 40 at the end of a week. But what concerns me is that it does not meet my other criteria which are to eat as much as much local and seasonal food as possible. I eat as far as possible from my garden and as little preserved or frozen produce as possible. I would like your ideas as to how to balance up these two.

I was hoping they'd do a section on 'things you have in your daily diet that are particularly good for your gut health', but it was mostly rareified ingredients. I don't actually have a problem with that, and the vid made me not immediately dismiss them as 'food products for the worried well' - but it would have been helpful to have a rundown of their more ordinary equivalents. Are things like raspberries, broccoli, nuts, cheese, pickled veg MUCH less good for you than goji berries, mooli, exotic-sounding seeds and grains, kefir and kimchi?

Thanks Tim thanks for Sharing

I hope he does a cookbook for healthy delicious desserts.

Great tips from nice presenters, and the doggies are a bonus!

Where can I find the recipes for cakes and buns. Also list of seeds to add to porridge.

Love your videos. I have CKD and am allergic to nuts. What do I do?

Wonderfull Video, thank you! If got a question:What about other pets like cats? It might be the same or not?

Id love to know exactly what David has in his mix-up jar. I live in a small village and will need to get everything online.

I'm very keen to take in and use an the information but please could we have it without the background music. It's very distracting and doesn't add anything. Thank you

Thank you great info love my dog 🐶

I agree this is largely aimed at those with the time, and budget. In reality for many working, caring for children ( how much are they considered the diet plan?) Or on a limited budget...plus the energy crisis. Much advice is not practical for many and I have to say with the Zoe programme as a commercial venture I'm rather sceptical as to how beneficial the advice is for many who would like to increase their guy health with a few practical and realistic pointers. Instead it's quite general in nutritional detail ...

This is great, thank you please could you perhaps work with maybe ...coeliac UK and also suggest ways for ultra sensitive coeliacs to improve gut health, especially those also intolerant of oats... As that is my experience I'm doing my best with nuts seeds and pseudo grains ... And root veg! But developing own sour dough comes with issues for us... Oh got a dog(not Stress free!!& Another story but perhaps not beneficial Exchange for them!) and I work outside so a big positive tick there. But thank you love this work Tim and team at Zoe. Thank you.

I agree about the music. Also the nearest international supermarket is probably 25 miles away. Scared if dogs so they would add to my stress levels!

Not piccalilli? I don’t like kraut what else is there please?

Just wondering how differerent 30 different plants need to be from each other? e.g. If I have a different variety of apple with my museli each morning during the week does it count as one plant or seven? (My neighbours' generous donations of surpluses makes 7 different varieties almost possible at present!).

Thank you

I kept thinking the other dude looked very familiar. Just could not put my finger on it until I heard Bake Off! I wish they would share what was in the diversity jar!

Rye sourdough bread 🍞 tastes amazing with caraway seed in the mix 👌

resistant starch from cooked and cooled potatoes is a super easy way to feed microbiome

I want that cake recipe!

Really interesting but please lose the music!

Does anyone have an explanation about why my partner can't tolerate fermenteec products of any kind. He got IBS after very heavy dose of antibiotics, now has Gerd (acid reflux) and possibly barrett's esophagus. He always finds fermented products and especially vinegars with the mother highly reactive. I'm sure his gut biom is at least part of the problem. I've tried so many products on him that are supposed to be good for the gut health and none of them help, often making him worse.

I have tried sauerkraut and kimchi many times but cannot abide the taste. Does unpasteurised cheese or even pasteurised blue cheese count as fermented food? And if so, how does it compare with kimchi etc? Enjoyed the video and am motivated to make my own jar of seeds etc for my porridge.

Does the amount of each “30 different plants“ not matter too much to achieve a benefit to the gut microbiome? Very interesting video and practical tips!

Are indoor cats also good for the human microbiome, or do they need to spend time outdoors to have more diverse microbes?

Should I join the big If project if I'm already time restricted eating? I also have just gone to a low lectin diet as I realised that fruit was causing my IBS.

I bought a can of kombucha from a shop are they bad or worth avoiding

Hey, give us the recipe for those delicious little chocolate cakes pleeease!

How do we keep our pet's microbiobs healthy for them?

Recipe book PLEASE!!

Celiac safe 'flours', pleeeeaase?

My normal breakfast has been home fermented goats yogurt with a load of different fruits, with grated ginger, cinnamon, Stevia, ground rosehips and ground hibiscus flower. I've been eating most of this for years sometimes adding ground seeds. But I've also suffered pain and extremely frequent bowel movements, and urgency and being unable to leave the house until late afternoon some days. On Sunday I didn't have my usual breakfast, I had eggs and mushrooms because one of my dogs was vomiting and they normally have some of my fruit. I did the same Monday. I did have some yogurt with frozen organic strawberries or with organic frozen bilberries and the spices and I felt like a normal person. Bowels really calmed down. I'd been blaming it on lentils or spices, and peppers, or something other than fruit. So now I have a ton of fruit and I'm wary of eating it, I had an apple, a pear, a kiwi and grated ginger two nights ago and my bowels were not happy, back to not being able to go far from the loo. So I think I need to do a fruit elimination diet now, maybe it's just the raw ginger - I can hope!

What about the high sodium content of most fermented foods such as kimchi and sauerkraut? They are so salty that they literally hurt my tongue (as do most salted chips and nuts.) A serving of kimchi has about 850 mg of sodium. The only good source of varied probiotics I have been able to find is kefir.

This is all great, but not very inclusive. How many of these ingredients suggested are either readily available or obtainable on a low budget? ( " mooli, cassava and yams") couldn't watch any more than 5 mins

Coming from more of the animal-based community it was interesting to see what the "other side" eats. I would not find any of the foods demonstrated in this video to be palatable. But at least I do have a dog.

What can I do if I’m gluten and dairy intolerant. I’m ok with eggs.

I’m doing the Zoe programme - I’ve been making my own kefir everyday for the last four years and kombucha for several months, have two dogs, and two cats, walk in the country and am a gardener! So why do only have two of the good bacteria in my gut and also why does Kombucha and kefir score so low on my foods?

Do Parrots count? We cuddle them too. Sometimes the eat from our plates too. BTW: Our birds have been in our house without any interaction with wild birds for 35 or more years.

3:40 sweet potato is an amazing vegetable; incredibly versatile and tasty!

I thought all grains incl "whole wheat" And root veg trigger a big insulin response and were not healthy ??

Do cats have a similar positive effect..?

HELP "30 a week is the sweet spot" does that mean 40 or 50 = one should reduce?

Ugh. I'd love to be able to afford all this fancy diverse diet and still be able heat my home. Sadly for most of us this isn't an option. It's a very upper middle class suggestion.

Can I ask, is it just dogs or pets in general? Surely other animals can do the same. Thanks. Also, my big thing for years has been to research fruit and veg and the horrible chemicals sprayed on them which cannot be washed off. I think all this needs to be organic if money allows. It's hard to get it all right!! haha

What is in your jar? Seeds and nuts, wich one?

Lack of tripod for camera work is a huge distraction. Good information in video.

Hi there can you tell me what to do about my gastritis please? I’ve gone from 2 wounds to 8 now 😢

Seem to remember a study that said, if you grew up with two different animals, you were less likely to get asthma.

What about cats? Are they good for my micro biome? I’m a getting a bit worried here that I have a very poor micro biome . I don’t have a dog, my garden is weedy and unloved and I don’t bake my own sourdough closest I ever got to baking bread was using a bread machine with dried yeast 😮 I do eat organic bio active yoghurt and enjoy cheese including Stilton yummy… baby steps I guess to improving my health.

What about Guinea pigs? Any good for the gut biome?😀

Thanks. Why full fat yogurt? Doesn’t fat free have the same pro biotics?

How does cooked food still help microbiome? I thought it's only when you eat raw fruits and vegetables.

As I watched your video I’m cuddled up next to my cockapoo, I think homes are much healthier with pets

6:57 Why don’t you want your yoghurt to be pasteurised?

Vinagar?

Tim couldn’t take his eyes of the little chocolate cakes!

they both have guts

These are for people who don't have an issue with blood sugar. Oatmeal and other whole grains are an issue for me, which is very disappointing.

I think I am probably suffering from "leaky gut". Prior to a colonoscopy it seems I should only eat plain flour and definitely not eat tomatoes, runner beans, nuts other than walnuts or pistachios or seeds. I am following the advice of Dr Grundy.

Some of those sourdough breads, yoghurt, nuts, fermented kimchi including some veg and fruits are high in histamine which is no good for us sensitive allergy sufferers.

My dog stresses me out :(

Almost everyone loves cheese, so that's another easy way to eat fermented foods. For some reason, Dr. Spector never mentions buttermilk when discussing fermented dairy products.

All those grains & chocolate buns. Too much carbohydrates!

They both talked so quickly that it was impossible to make notes. So many names of things never heard of before.

I was wondering why I still haven’t had Covid, despite close contact with friends and family when they’ve had it. Could it be because of all the doggos I’ve been kissing at the dog park? 😉🐾❤️😂😂

I am giving Tim here two more years, that's it. Two years down the line he is going to claim that it is great to your gut health not only to have a dog as a pet, but you need to give it a thorough body lick, once a week. Funny part is, he could be speaking truth, backed by science. No telling, we all are still learning.

Agreed on the dog comment & including them in a photo NOT GOOD, expect a more thoughtful approach. Dogs have replaced scantily dressed females in 'attracting' people. 🤨

What about cats? I've got a cat!

Per the thumbnail - I thought I was going to hear unexpected ways to improve our gut is to get a dog.

Music very distracting 😢

Why does the kefir have to be raw? The organic brand I’ve been drinking uses pasteurised milk

What about if u dont like half of that food...? Only dried fruit i like is mango .. i dislike nuts , seeds efc porridge yuck..

What about cats? 🐈🐱

What about cats lol

I had high hopes for this video but after watching it i feel like i have more questions than answers. 1. If it's as simple as a change of diet towards plant based ingredients then why is the penny only dropping now and where is the long term data to back it up? 2. Is this yet another marketing ploy to steer the population towards "new" products that can be sold, that in the end will turn out to be yet another red herring? 3. With an ever increasing life expectancy that's leading to increased instances of age related brain degradation, why would extending the current life expectancy of the body be seen as a good thing given the quality of life when the brain begins to fail is so horrendous? 4. I'm not far off 60 (58) but i 've never heard of most of the seeds in the video and nothing about this video and elsewhere tempts me to try them, born in the 60's and brought up in the 70's my diet like many was very basic and without all the products in this video, yet my grandparents lived well into there 70's and 80's, other family members are well past their 90's and still alive. 5. That said, there is definitely something to be said about the gut microbiome and general health because i experienced it first hand when i found about the Phyto-V study and took their probiotics in a last gasp attempt to get over my lingering Long Covid gastrointestinal problems. I get why scientists like Prof Tim Spector might get sucked into this "new understanding" but i'm not buying into it, at least not yet, i'm too tired of history books and science telling me that "new" science says "this" only for it be disproven 5, 10, or 20 years later. Now before someone jumps on me saying that time and tastes change, i totally get that but dont be led blindly into a place you just might regret... there's no easy way of wording this but i'd rather i passed away before my mental faculties stopped functioning... the thought of being of this planet and without any control or understanding, terrifies me.