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299: The "Healthy" Foods That Can Actually Lead to Weight Gain | Tim Spector, MD

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How to Kill Your Gut Microbes

I was trying to prove a point and see what would be like, and could I change my gut microbes? I recommend it for 24 hours, but no more than that. And these were raw milk, highly, with lots of microbes in it, so probiotic cheeses. Very smelly ones. But after four days, he rang me up and said, I'm really not fitting well, Dad. It's starting to affect my brain. He'd lost 35 to 40% of his gut diversity in that 10 day period where he'd only been eating junk food. The concept that you can actually kill off some of your microbes with this combination of all the nasty chemicals in junk food and

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