Prof Tim Spector
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So if someone
Out there is eating as healthily as they think they can for their gut, generally following, say, all my advice and Zoe's advice.
On average, they will have a healthier gut score.
On average, they will be living longer, et cetera.
But they can't be sure they don't have the microbes that are maybe predisposing them to certain risks of disease.
disease or others they're lacking that could prevent them from having disease.
And the only way to be sure about that is to do a gut microbiome test using this sophisticated genetics that Nicola has been working on.
Well,
Prebiotic, some people have heard of this term, it really means a fertilizer for your microbes.
And it's it's a broader approach than a a probiotic, which is just targeting one particular microbe and hoping that it has other effects.
So prebiotic is scattering lots of fertilizer in the soil of your gut so that the good microbes will grow and they will put
Push out the bad microbes.
So we think that the way to improve your good microbes is definitely through fertilizers from the tools that we have at the moment.
So we think this diversity of plants on a regular basis is really the key currently.
And that's that's available, and it's actually easier to give people these prebiotics than probiotics because there aren't any real risks.
Health risks.
Associated with the right.
And I think in the future we might be looking at personalized fertilizers, personalised prebiotics, really to tease apart these these different ones.
At the moment, we're going for generic.
They work really well, but you know, I think we can do even better in the future.
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