Tim has been working on the gut byam, which i think if you've read a newspaper in the last couple of years, you will be somewhat familiar with. But can you talk about what this is, and how does your research affect what we should and shouldn't be eating? So that the g microbiome is basically this huge community of microbes, a hundred trillion of them,. Most of them in the lower part of the intestines, the colon. This is an extra organ of our body that weighs the same as our brain. And most of it is down to got microbiom r these microbes that are so different. We very ot we only share about 20 % of our microbes, whereas
To unpack the truth behind the often confusing information about the food we eat, in this archive discussion from 2017, Intelligence Squared brought together some of the world’s leading experts on the science of human nutrition and health. Joining our host Dr Xand van Tulleken to pick apart food truths and myths were GP and broadcaster Sarah Jarvis, computational biologist Eran Segal, Professor of genetic epidemiology Tim Spector, and award-winning science and health writer Gary Taubes.
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