Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

How I came across ZOE was a publication in Nature Medicine in June of 2020, where in essence, what happened is that ZOE showed, Professor Tim Spector and Professor Sarah Berry showed that

our triglycerides, our blood fat, our blood sugar, and our insulin levels after a meal are informed powerfully by our gut microbiome.

That the way in which we respond to food is unique and individual to us, and our gut microbiome is an important part of that story.

For example, with blood fat after a meal, your gut microbiome

is more predictive of what's going to happen than your age, than your gender, than your genetics, than even what you ate.

In terms of your insulin after a meal, your gut microbiome is the second most important factor, which is fascinating because we know the ties between the gut microbiome and insulin resistance.

So now, Jonathan, where I am today is

A medical doctor who is out there pounding the drum and trying to let the world know that I believe the opportunity for healing exists in our gut.

This is not something that I was taught.

This is not something that I came up with as an idea out of nowhere.

I was led by the science.

And the Zoe study in June of 2020 is one of the powerful studies that helped me to inform the way that I think about these things, how essential the gut microbiome is to these different factors.

The following year, Jonathan, in 2021, from these PREDICT studies, once again, Zoe scientists published a paper and they looked at inflammation that occurs after a meal.

So in essence, they were zooming in

What happens in your body in the hours after you eat?

And what they discovered is that actually eating our food does create some inflammation in our body.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Exercise is inflammatory too.

This can be how we build resilience, how we get stronger.

But at the same time, we don't want excessive amounts of that.