Food for Life: Finding the Balance Between Science and Pleasure. With Dr. Tim Spector.

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Health & Fitness

4.2 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In this conversation, Tim Spector, Doctor, Professor and Author, discusses his journey into nutrition, sparked by his own personal health scare. He emphasizes the importance of gut microbes and the essential need for personalized nutrition. We’re all different…so one size does not fit all. He discusses the role of sugar, fats, and alcohol in our diets, and his belief on the limited effectiveness of supplements when compared to whole foods. His cookbook is called Food for Life which he created with his science and nutrition company, Zoe. In this discussion he shares the six principles he believes are most important for us to understand…beginning with the need to eat at least 30 plants a week. There’s lot’s in here. The role of fermented foods. The need to focus on food quality over calories and the critical importance of looking at food as medicine A very rich conversation on the impact of nutrition on our overall health and wellbeing. As always, we’re Untangle, the podcast from Muse, the brain sensing headband dedicated to unlocking your brains potential. Check us out at choosemuse.com and use code Untangle15 for your discount. We’re here, just like you…to learn, grow, share and connect. We hope you enjoy this episode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.7	Welcome to Untangle. I'm Patricia Carpice. In this conversation, Tim Specter, Dr. Professor and
1:10.8	author discusses his journey into nutrition,
1:14.3	sparked by his own personal health scare. He emphasizes the importance of gut microbes and the
1:20.5	essential need for personalized nutrition. We're all different, so one size does not fit all.
1:27.3	He discusses the role of sugar, fats, and alcohol
1:30.0	in our diets, and his belief on the limited effectiveness of supplements when compared to
1:35.7	whole foods. His cookbook is called Food for Life, which he created with his science and nutrition
1:41.9	company Zoe. In this discussion, he shares the six
1:45.9	principles he outlines, which he believes are the most important for us to understand, beginning
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