Prof Tim Spector
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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And we're realizing more and more how important the immune system is for every aspect of our health because it stops us aging.
It stops us getting cancer.
It stops us getting allergies.
You name it, the immune system now is involved.
That's what they're there for.
As far as we're concerned, they're just trying to survive.
But in a way, we give them a nice home in our gut and a place to live.
We feed them every day.
And in return...
But evolution has worked out that they provide us with a lot of these chemicals.
Some of them are things like vitamins and all the B vitamins, for example, they produce, as well as lots of gut hormones for breaking down food.
So it's a really close relationship we've got with them that we've evolved over millions of years, really, to have.
Yeah, a piece of fruit that won't be absorbed in the upper part of the gut.
It goes right down to the lower part, the lower intestine.
So it takes longer to get there.
And the skin particularly will have lots of fiber in it and also have these polyphenols, which are the defense chemicals you find in natural fruits that protect the plant, but also
our microbes extract from that fruit.
So they're extracting the fibers.
They break it down in our gut.
They use the fibers for energy and to produce other chemicals.
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