Prof Tim Spector
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first heard Apr 2026
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So you want to improve, have more of these good pharmacies, and you want to have less of the the bad ones, you know, doing the breaking bad type home chemistry and producing these uh nasty chemicals.
And is
So some of them, bad ones, for example, may be quite harmless in small numbers, but when the conditions are bad, they're fed the wrong foods, they have an i inf so-called inflammatory environment, maybe the acidity changes slightly, then they can grow to an extent that they produce chemicals that influence everything around them, and they become bad guys.
There is this transition, and so it's
It's best to think of this as a bit of a war between the good guys and the bad guys.
The more good guys you've got, the more you can squeeze out the bad guys so that it doesn't matter if they're around because they're in small numbers and they're just playing around, and really any chemicals they produce are just so diluted, you don't really uh feel the consequences.
But the real problems are when you lose your good bugs and suddenly the bad
Bad guys multiply and then you're really in trouble because you're producing all kinds of chemicals that attract even more unhealthy microbes and the whole thing starts to go downhill very fast.
The three of us
When you get even below the species level, the subspecies level, it it's probably even less than that.
It's but you know, we're only sharing of 10 to 15 percent.
So all of us have a unique set of some microbes that the others wouldn't have.
And if you even if you took a thousand people, you'd find nearly everyone has something unique to them.
So there's a broad pattern that might be similar, but at the the more fine detail you get.
the harder it is to find things in common, even in as we discovered, uh Nicola and I, when we looked at this, even in identical twins, so who have identical genes in every cell in their body, but their microbes are really only slightly more similar than unrelated.
Always always worry for the Chihuahua, right?
Even the chih and even if you had two chihuahuas, one would be aggressive and the other would be nice and docile.
So having listened
and these other things.
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