Prof Tim Spector

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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

It's a byproduct of the petrol industry.

it's you know it's virtually forced on us it's very hard to avoid it and yeah nobody wants to be think this you know their brains are slowly filling up with microplastics um even if we even if we don't know exactly what they do again if there's a simple choice going back to my idea of you know we're constantly making these little food choices you know am i going to bother putting into another bowl yes you know do i want my water bottle to be plastic or i want it to be metal or

made of something else these are very easy choices for us to make without you know ruining your life and getting super stressed about it because you can't avoid plastic and I think we don't want to be so plastic phobic we go the other way which would make would probably have negative effects on your mental health

After my scare, I went and got water filters

installed, and so my water tastes better and you get any of those microplastics filtered out.

So I'm quite happy to have my filtered water.

Or if I do buy specialty waters, you know, I like a nice Italian or Spanish mineral water, I'll buy in a glass bottle.

And so that works for me.

And I carry a metal water bottle with me.

So, yeah, I could do more, but I reckon that there's a sort of very easy way of doing this.

And no one really knows.

I had above average microplastic levels, but nobody knows what's critical here.

Hopefully I'll die before I have any problems due to them, but it's very early science.

I think there's probably many other things in our food that are worse for us than those, although they sound scary, but we're surrounded by a lot of these.

Just starving our microbes, I think, is a worse crime than having a little bit of plastic every time we have a drink.

So what really changed my mind was understanding a mechanism of how they might work.

Because the field as a self-nutritionist, it's not well-funded.

The studies are small.

Some of them are funded by dairy companies and et cetera, which can be biased.

So I thought, well, they might have some advantages, but the evidence isn't very strong.

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