Dr. Tim Spector

But if you do suffer from an addiction, then it's probably one of the best ways to get off alcohol or drugs at the moment that we have. And so for those people, that personality change is a bonus. All I'm saying is there's a red flag around this other idea It could long-term change you, but there just isn't any hard data that I've been able to find about that.

But if you do suffer from an addiction, then it's probably one of the best ways to get off alcohol or drugs at the moment that we have. And so for those people, that personality change is a bonus. All I'm saying is there's a red flag around this other idea It could long-term change you, but there just isn't any hard data that I've been able to find about that.

But if you do suffer from an addiction, then it's probably one of the best ways to get off alcohol or drugs at the moment that we have. And so for those people, that personality change is a bonus. All I'm saying is there's a red flag around this other idea It could long-term change you, but there just isn't any hard data that I've been able to find about that.

And there's hardly even any stuff on how it affects your gut microbes. We do know that gut microbes can produce small amounts of this gut hormone, GLP-1 themselves. and we do naturally produce it. So some of these microbes might enhance it. And there's many companies claiming they've got products that naturally produce it. Most of these are in tiny amounts that probably don't have any real effect.

And there's hardly even any stuff on how it affects your gut microbes. We do know that gut microbes can produce small amounts of this gut hormone, GLP-1 themselves. and we do naturally produce it. So some of these microbes might enhance it. And there's many companies claiming they've got products that naturally produce it. Most of these are in tiny amounts that probably don't have any real effect.

And there's hardly even any stuff on how it affects your gut microbes. We do know that gut microbes can produce small amounts of this gut hormone, GLP-1 themselves. and we do naturally produce it. So some of these microbes might enhance it. And there's many companies claiming they've got products that naturally produce it. Most of these are in tiny amounts that probably don't have any real effect.

We don't know of any major disturbance to the gut on regular users as yet, but the numbers studied have been tiny. And this is something that With my company, Zoe, we want to look at, because we think we've got probably a couple of thousand GLP-1 users who have done the Zoe nutritional program, that we could look at their gut microbes.

We don't know of any major disturbance to the gut on regular users as yet, but the numbers studied have been tiny. And this is something that With my company, Zoe, we want to look at, because we think we've got probably a couple of thousand GLP-1 users who have done the Zoe nutritional program, that we could look at their gut microbes.

We don't know of any major disturbance to the gut on regular users as yet, but the numbers studied have been tiny. And this is something that With my company, Zoe, we want to look at, because we think we've got probably a couple of thousand GLP-1 users who have done the Zoe nutritional program, that we could look at their gut microbes.

And so that's an ongoing project, which I think will be really fascinating to see what what other effects there are of this drug. Because it seems to do much more than just weight, you know, and the effect on the immune system, et cetera, seems to be quite marked.

And so that's an ongoing project, which I think will be really fascinating to see what what other effects there are of this drug. Because it seems to do much more than just weight, you know, and the effect on the immune system, et cetera, seems to be quite marked.

And so that's an ongoing project, which I think will be really fascinating to see what what other effects there are of this drug. Because it seems to do much more than just weight, you know, and the effect on the immune system, et cetera, seems to be quite marked.

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.