Prof Tim Spector

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647 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast · Dr. Tim Spector: The Truth About Diet, Gut Health, and Why Calories Fail | Health & Wellness | E410 · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

But as long as you've got these supplements...

um which make huge amounts of money for those companies you'll be fine and then you get these influencers are paid by the supplement companies to tell you exactly that and again

People want a simple black and white solution.

And of course, it's very complex.

Nutrition is moved from being the most boring science subject to probably the most complex and interesting, in my view.

So no doctors went into nutrition because it was too dull.

That's the honest.

That's why there are no real MD nutrition experts, or very few of them.

It was incredibly dull because after the Second World War, it was all about vitamin deficiency, not about dealing with modern food and the food industry.

So it's sort of understandable why we're in this.

But I think given that we have incredible power over what food choices we make, at least most of us do, not everybody, but those with any sort of income, we're making hundreds of food choices a week.

And it's not like exercise where you have to give up several hours of every day.

It's just a simple choice.

You can say, I can put this in my mouth, or I can pick something else.

And that's what we're not realizing, that we've got this incredible power

to change ourselves and to change our destinies and live another 10 years of healthy life just by making better food choices, not by spending lots more time in the gym.

I'd stick that in the trash because it means that they've reduced the sugar in some way.

Generally, it's the sugar they go for.

And they've replaced it with something else.

And that could be low-quality fats like palm oil, or they've added artificial sweeteners and a mix of those.

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