Dr. Tim Spector

Well, coffee is a great example of sort of nutritional fads and myths. So over the last 30 years, it's been seen as, you know, the most evil thing you can drink and suddenly it's had a revival and suddenly it's the best thing you can drink. I've seen this in my career and I've published on it. I published a paper recently over about 30 years ago saying it caused cancer.

Well, coffee is a great example of sort of nutritional fads and myths. So over the last 30 years, it's been seen as, you know, the most evil thing you can drink and suddenly it's had a revival and suddenly it's the best thing you can drink. I've seen this in my career and I've published on it. I published a paper recently over about 30 years ago saying it caused cancer.

Well, coffee is a great example of sort of nutritional fads and myths. So over the last 30 years, it's been seen as, you know, the most evil thing you can drink and suddenly it's had a revival and suddenly it's the best thing you can drink. I've seen this in my career and I've published on it. I published a paper recently over about 30 years ago saying it caused cancer.

It didn't, by the way, but it was a typical sort of scare story that I'm not proud of today. But now we definitely know from the epidemiology that regular coffee drinkers have less cancer and less heart disease than people who do drink, that drink, say, tea. And not that tea is unhealthy, but there seems to be something extra in the coffee. And we wondered why that was.

It didn't, by the way, but it was a typical sort of scare story that I'm not proud of today. But now we definitely know from the epidemiology that regular coffee drinkers have less cancer and less heart disease than people who do drink, that drink, say, tea. And not that tea is unhealthy, but there seems to be something extra in the coffee. And we wondered why that was.

It didn't, by the way, but it was a typical sort of scare story that I'm not proud of today. But now we definitely know from the epidemiology that regular coffee drinkers have less cancer and less heart disease than people who do drink, that drink, say, tea. And not that tea is unhealthy, but there seems to be something extra in the coffee. And we wondered why that was.

And we think it's related not to the caffeine because you get similar effects with decaffeinated coffee. So I don't know whether you... you can have decaf coffee or not. We did discover that there's one microbe in the guts. So we studied about 100,000 people's gut microbes in the US and the UK from the ZOE studies. And there's this one particular microbe that's very fussy, only drinks coffee.

And we think it's related not to the caffeine because you get similar effects with decaffeinated coffee. So I don't know whether you... you can have decaf coffee or not. We did discover that there's one microbe in the guts. So we studied about 100,000 people's gut microbes in the US and the UK from the ZOE studies. And there's this one particular microbe that's very fussy, only drinks coffee.

And we think it's related not to the caffeine because you get similar effects with decaffeinated coffee. So I don't know whether you... you can have decaf coffee or not. We did discover that there's one microbe in the guts. So we studied about 100,000 people's gut microbes in the US and the UK from the ZOE studies. And there's this one particular microbe that's very fussy, only drinks coffee.

And it's called laucinobacter. named after a Dr. Lawson. And it's specialized and it's waiting around, hanging around, it's probably in you in tiny amounts, just waiting for you to have a drink of coffee and then it's going to explode and reproduce, have babies and become a really big deal.

And it's called laucinobacter. named after a Dr. Lawson. And it's specialized and it's waiting around, hanging around, it's probably in you in tiny amounts, just waiting for you to have a drink of coffee and then it's going to explode and reproduce, have babies and become a really big deal.

And it's called laucinobacter. named after a Dr. Lawson. And it's specialized and it's waiting around, hanging around, it's probably in you in tiny amounts, just waiting for you to have a drink of coffee and then it's going to explode and reproduce, have babies and become a really big deal.

And we think some of the chemicals that it produces as a side effect are healthy for your heart and the rest of your body. So it's a great example of how we need to feed our gut microbes in a very diverse way because they're such super specialists that they're not going to be content with just having kale salad every day. They want a big variety.

And we think some of the chemicals that it produces as a side effect are healthy for your heart and the rest of your body. So it's a great example of how we need to feed our gut microbes in a very diverse way because they're such super specialists that they're not going to be content with just having kale salad every day. They want a big variety.

And we think some of the chemicals that it produces as a side effect are healthy for your heart and the rest of your body. So it's a great example of how we need to feed our gut microbes in a very diverse way because they're such super specialists that they're not going to be content with just having kale salad every day. They want a big variety.

And so this is just the tip of the iceberg of what we're going to be able to find, all these new microbes that we didn't know about, all these specialists. And this is very much part of our ongoing research. Now we've got a database of, Of 250,000 people we can study with all their data information, all their health data and all their gut microbes.

And so this is just the tip of the iceberg of what we're going to be able to find, all these new microbes that we didn't know about, all these specialists. And this is very much part of our ongoing research. Now we've got a database of, Of 250,000 people we can study with all their data information, all their health data and all their gut microbes.

And so this is just the tip of the iceberg of what we're going to be able to find, all these new microbes that we didn't know about, all these specialists. And this is very much part of our ongoing research. Now we've got a database of, Of 250,000 people we can study with all their data information, all their health data and all their gut microbes.

And these are all the ZOE members that have consented to do research as well. So it's really a really cool, exciting time to be studying the gut microbes. So sorry if I get overexcited by it all.

And these are all the ZOE members that have consented to do research as well. So it's really a really cool, exciting time to be studying the gut microbes. So sorry if I get overexcited by it all.