Prof Tim Spector
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first heard Aug 2026
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You get lots of microbes just on food itself.
You get it from surfaces.
You get it from soil, from trees.
You get it from the rest of your family.
You get it from your playmates in nursery school.
So there's microbes all over the place, and eventually they settle down, and the waiter...
then nourish them is essentially to work out what they want to eat.
We've come up with a few basic principles of what microbes really want.
And we did this in conjunction with the company I co-founded, Zoe.
And these principles, which we're trying to sort of educate everyone with, are that microbes like
You eat diversity of plants.
So eating the same kale salad every day isn't going to work because each plant has different fibers and therefore it has a very different chemical composition and our microbes are fussy.
And that's why...
we've come up with eating 30 different plants a week as a goal to try and hit that target and exceed it.
And if you do that, that's the best way to get a diverse growth of all these microbes, because the more you have, the healthier you'll be.
Second would be to eat the rainbow so that you're getting these defense chemicals, these polyphenols.
So you pick brightly colored plants, also bitter ones.
So things like dark chocolate, olive oil, coffee, even red wine have some benefits because of the polyphenols.
Then you've got eating fermented foods.
So studies have shown that if you have at least three portions of fermented food, you can really, really enhance your immune system and get your gut going in ways that are different to the diversity.
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