Tim Spector is a brilliant science communicator.Thank you for this fascinating informative video.

A really fascinating video. Some facts are shocking like loosing 40% of micro biome diversity only after 10 days of McDonalds diet. One of the most interesting videos on microbiome I ever saw on youtube. Gonna be looking for Dr Spector’s book.

To complicate things more, I think “red meat” as a blanket term is insufficient. The quality of red meat varies *immensely*. Commercial agriculture meats are riddled with antibiotics, preservatives, stress hormones and other garbage I don’t even know about. A proper randomized / controlled analysis would test the quality of meats and control for this as well.

Tim Spector. You are very clear with your information. Thank You. I also love your sense of humour. Your poor dear son!Hahaha.

I wish I’d learnt my late grandmother’s fermented vegetables and sourdough bread processes and recipes. Store bought doesn’t taste the same.

It would be useful to have sensors to test your faeces when you go to the loo and relay the data to warn of problems and adapt behaviour.

40 yr raw milk drinker-at 70 years old now... About 20 yes ago stopped drinking raw milk & 6 months later I’d developed a large stomach..I’m thin…I decided to get drink a quart of raw milk & within 15 minutes noticed a churning in my stomach which last 2 weeks accompanied by gas..in 2 weeks the churning & gas stopped & my stomach was totally flat like it always was…Only drink 1 cup at night to maintain my flat stomach each morning…The raw milk was literally digesting my food for me..

I am trying to find and listen to everything Dr Spector has put on KZfaq. The first of his videos that I stumbled on made me go straight to Amazon to get his book, I now cannot wait for it to arrive. Brilliantly presented and explained. Thank you so much.

Good talk. Straight to the point.

Father of the year. xD

I'm not even sure that my gut recognises McDonalds as food. That's the sense I get. Satisfying only for the few seconds it's in your mouth and then you're somehow full and hungry an hour later.

Thank you Tim for all great information and videos you do. Helping humanity 💗

Ah, I love prof a bit more after watching each video featuring him! Clear and precise communicator!

I'd wonder if that McDonald's experiment would have the same results with eating only a boiled chicken breast with brown rice and a potato for 10 days (i.e. one could then hypothesize whether the gut microbe diversity reduction is due to a lack of diversity in the fiber being consumed rather than on the degree to which the food is processed, cooking method, etc.).

Very important research presented here. Keep up this valuable work.

This is great! Thank you for this video. (My brain 🧠 was in pain from the beeping sound on the background of most of the video)

What is the influence, if any, of female hormones on the microbiome? Thinking about the many women who suddenly start putting on weight after menopause having been slim until then, and not changing their diet.

The interesting thing about removing sugar from your diet for a couple of weeks and then eating a mcdonald's burger (chicken in my case)...all you can taste is sugar! And I was still using some artificial sweeteners.

Fantastic information. Thank you.

What would be nice is to get a straight answer

Mediterranean diets differ depending on the country. From Southern Spain, France & Greece, to Turkey & N. Africa. Many Mediterranean cuisines have a lot of meat too..

SO helpful and interesting. Thanks again Tim. 👍🏼

I honestly don’t know who or what to believe anymore.. this dr says this, that dr says that.. I’m so fuckin confused.. we are all doomed..

Fascinating. Thank you.

Excellent Good to see we have a similar ethical outlook 🤭

Great info. To the creator of this video: please use a lapel mic or at the very least a directional “shotgun” mic when recording interviews. Reduces all that echo.

This area of great interest

The last sentence or two reminded me of the old adage about farmer's kids hardly ever suffering from hay fever .

Brilliant and fascinating, thank you keep it coming !

Is monk fruit with erythritol considered an artificial sweetener?

I'm three days into the Zoe program. It is fascinating stuff.

Absolutely fascinating 👍

Excellent video. Thanks very much.

McDonalds bad for you who knew!? 🤣🤣🤣

If your son feels ill he should go with his gut feeling. I felt horrid by the declining of stopping the experiment 😨

The artificial sweeteners remark really interested me. I use a lot (aspartame, acesulfane potassium) and I've no problem with my weight (yet) although I have lost a huge amount since my divorce about 10 years back. I switched my diet from junk an comfort food (being miserable) to something more diverse but cheaper, with an emphasis on fibre intake (porridge, brown bread, etc.) but I can't usually manage the amount of fruit I would like because it's simply too expensive. Frozen veggies are the next best thing (price wise). I also don't shower as much as I used to or use harsh soaps. This change has seen a marked improvement in my physical health. (*I joke that I stink so no one comes near me any more, although the opposite is true because I keep the stinky bits clean and polished!) Too many variables to pin it to one thing but nonetheless there's something in this. I'd like to dump the aspartame if possible but it "feeds" my sweet tooth and the others just make me feel rancid.

I’m wondering if it wouldn’t be easier to just cut out processed food, rather then invest millions in developing ‘microbiome capsules’ we can swallow to get thin. Though presumably it will make some people very wealthy.

Thanks

So interesting, thank you👍☺️

I liked the idea of this so I spent 3 months increasing my microbiome upto 30 different plants, seeds and nuts. So that was probably an addition of 20 extra varieties. Result was 7lbs INCREASE in weight!

Dr Spector thank you for this informative video. Do you think that how we eat our meals(fast, or slow) is an important factor to our stomach microbial health? Have there been studies done on eating slower, and our overall health?

Correlation is not causation. There are so many theories about obesity and since it is such a recent phenomenon and is not well understood but I am not convinced by this theory on micro biome. Why did this micro biome effect only start in the 1970s ? All he is really saying is that there may be an impact of the micro biome on how many calories are metabolised when they are controlled because in the end it’s physics not biology- it’s energy balance. There is no such thing as a fat busting microbe.

Amazing video. Thank you. Cheers

Thought this may reinforce what your thought path

Fantastic

Whatever happened to a balanced, colorful diet?

I would love to know how and where I could find someone to measure my Microbiome. I am only 5'1" and find it very difficult to lose weight. I have no thyroid having had a complete thyroid removal 15 years ago and now I find it virtually impossible to lose weight. I have been told that the thyroid significantly changes the metabolism is this true. Would be very grateful for any information and advice on how I improve my diet to reintroduce the microbes to help me with this. I drink Kombucha, make my own, and eat various other health probiotic additives to my diet for example probiotic yogurt. Where am I going wrong.

Very interesting video

I don't eat meat idont eat cheese I live on veggies for just about fifty I am now coming up to my 79 birthday I walk long walks every day with my dog some times twice ina day.

I can't imagine a life without meat. 😀

💞Love love love!💞

All i do is drink red wine, green tea, fruit and veg smoothies. And olive oil on everything. My guts are super

What he doesn't tell people who go crazy from this information and jump mouth first aboard the express fiber bullet train, is why they will get immediate gut lockup, microbial overgrowth, and severe bloating & constipation.. lol. - All Aboard!!

I can can behind a lot of this. But when talking about ‘skinny’ and ‘obese’ I don’t think it can be narrowed down to just microbes alone. I know lots of skinny people who don’t have any diversity at all and live on chocolate and coffee etc, and I know some over weight people who eat a fair amount of varied foods but they just eat constantly and snack. Quantity and portions has to be considered also

This was superb. But as olive oil is 14% saturated fat and consuming processed oils in general are pro inflammatory, can we not get the benefit from just eating olives? Same as eating red grapes and skipping the wine? Surely! Olive oil is not essential.

What do you know about sweet leaf and inulin please?

Again another fact that seems to support the blood type diets of D'Adamo. Indeed a lot of bacteria species have been shown to have preferences for some blood types. Which explains how some people are fine with meat intakes.

You can almost hear the low carb/ carnivore crowd leave the room

I've caught obesity from my partner only red wine will save me. Must start kissing skinny blokes.

Forward the video to 7.00 if you want to get to the most interesting part, dealing with foods which might be of greatest benefit to humans.

I would love to know whether Tim follows the work of Dr Gundry in America. I have been following him but have to wade through American selling techniques as he sells supplements. Very similar research.

1:30 This is why aliens probe us. They're seeing how many of us that would want to eat them.

What’s your opinion on eggs?

So....a relative of mine had a total colostomy and formation of a stoma. She has no microbiome, yet she is the healthiest she has ever been! Explain that. Also the red meat -TMAO story is unproven. Vegetables generate as much TMAO as meat and fish generates 10-100 times more TMAO as meat, yet no study has associated fish eating with heart disease. Let's not forget Zoe promotes a plant based diet!

Sir my son is 21 yrs...he is having epilepsy....and having 10 tab a day.... please help me. How i can help my child from this

Is grape juice as good as eating red grapes? How can I know if my microbiome is. Healthy? Doesn’t it change on a daily basis ?

The set-up of KZfaq videos now does not show date!

Can you look into the vaginal biome and persistent hpv/cervical cancer pls?

What effect does Sucralose have on the gut health and how much consumption of sucralose actually harm you ?

Isn't it clear that a diet very high in fiber, (and resistant starch) a plant based diet would produce a diverse microbiome? So we should promote that kind of diet.

Los Subtítulos en diferentes idiomas los pueden acrivar cuándo colocan un video en KZfaq, por favor pueden activar los Subtítulos en Español, para que las personas con habla hispana podamos cer sus videos?.... saludos gracias. Esperando de ustedes

They have done this with humans and it doesn’t work.

20 to 30 grams of fibre a day is recommended by Tim Spector in this video. I take 5g of psyllium husks per day because if I don't my stools are far too hard. That stuff can be dangerous if taken to excess so I won't make up any shortfall in fibre by consuming much more of it than I already do. But is that fibre helping to feed my microbiome (as far as I'm aware that fibre passes through undigested) ? I keep to a fairly strict keto diet so I don't get 20g of fibre a day, maybe 10g (most winter days I'll eat a couple of small Brussel Sprouts and a couple of small cherry tomatoes with my large breakfast steak, probably I'll eat a few pecan nuts through the rest of the day). Just the one meal a day unless I see my girl friend that day when we may get lunch and or dinner together. So two questions (i) bearing in mind that psyllium husks supposedly pass through undigested are they in any way helping to feed my microbiome and (ii) what other fibre sources should I consume that will not kick me out of ketosis i.e. keep me at less than 20g of carbohydrates a day ? Anybody like to help me here (I don't want to give up on keto, it has worked great for me for the last couple of years) ?

Another Health Guru.

Young Spector son .. Daddy I'm feeling really ill eating McDonald's every day. Daddy Spector .. Stop complaining son, keep eating all that processed food in the name of science.

Is there any science about animals products producing any good bacteria and butyrate?

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Sigh... It's a tragedy that plenty of people are not demonstrating control with their lives with plenty of great information like these at their fingertips!

His son was hard up for money .. so his dad tried to kill him 👍 bravo .

Can't a meat eater who doesn't have the microbes that produce tmao, eventually produce it by simply eating meat and destroying the beneficial bacteria which prevent that from happening?

My parents both eat a lot of red grapes.. both have an overweight BMI

Super talk, does processed food include the plant based "meats" & quorn products as well? Thank you

Bad microbiome = fat. But surely the bottom line is bad diet = fat (something we always knew..?)

How important is dosage? If you give too many of the fat munching microbes does this lead to dangerous weight loss?

How about just changing the input, I am a very healthy very low carb guy, nearly all meat and eggs. What is your evidence for your claims regarding red meat being problematic?

Did he experiment with the carnivore diet?

Im eating red grapes rn.

Are not some red meats more unhealthy than others?

Eat a whole foods plant based diet. Good bacterial diversity, low BMI.

Hey doc we evolved eating red meat…I eat red meat and feel fantastic…I’m 78 next week.

Does anyone know how much fiber the average adult needs per day? I mean factual information not the stuff you google. And how do you make sure you get the fiber without eating things that spike my blood sugar as a type 2 diabetic? That's the hardest thing for me

I was on Keto for about 3 yrs… eating lots of fibre. Bloating, constipation and eventually food sensitivities and leaky gut resulted. Trying carnivore to help heal the gut. Q: did he try carnivore diet?

Been eating meat all my life an no problems here

If fiber was so important to our bodies, our bodies would make it's own but it doesn't same as carbs

This is controversial, weight gain is caused as we age mostly and our metabolism becomes too efficient

Create a billion dollar industry why don’t ya😂

Can I get a healthy skinny donor?

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Cristin synella !!!????

if we would act emphatically with ourselves AND the animals, nature ... everything would be beautiful. stewards of the earth. as we are narcissistic children ... we turn earth into hell itself. feel! 💚