Cutting up things like salad leaves a few hours before you eat them or eating mustard with brassicas to boost their health giving effects is useful. Cut up your garlic early and then go another cup of tea and then put it in in the pan. I can take one time over the cooking is always here so another quick question then from Kwame this time I've read that probiotics as opposed to prebiotics are only really beneficial if you have an impaired microbiome do you agree now we haven't really talked about the microbiome tonight yet but they're kind of central aren't they Tim? Yes I mean everyone has a unique microbiome which is why probiotics are a bit of a
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Eating the right foods is the single most effective way of preventing illness and staying healthy. But understanding what’s good and what’s bad, whether it's red wine or acai berries, can be a complicated conversation when we’re constantly receiving new ideas about what to put on our plate. Tim Spector’s new book, Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well, looks to make all that conflicting information a little more clear. Spector is a professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London and honorary consultant physician at Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals. He is a multi-award-winning expert in personalised medicine and the gut microbiome. Our host for this discussion is Paediatric doctor and TV presenter, Guddi Singh.
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