Prof Tim Spector
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Hi, Professor Tim Spector here.
Have you heard about our documentary, The Gut Health Challenge?
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And the other thing is we have a natural defense system in our bodies because if the sugar builds up to high levels in our blood vessels, it's actually quite toxic.
Glucose in a way is a bit of a poison in our system and that's why we have this very careful sensing mechanism that
produces insulin to drive down those levels.
So it never stays at high levels for very long because you then get damaged to all the blood vessels in your body and your brain, et cetera.
And that's what happens in certain forms of diabetes.
So we've got a really sensitive system for controlling how quickly the glucose is absorbed and then comes down.
And there's also a role of our gut microbes inside the intestine that is looking like increasingly important, but very difficult to study.
We've evolved naturally to deal with episodic high amounts of sugar.
And an example is when I spent time with the Hadza tribe, these hunter-gatherers in East Africa, every now and again, all the tribe would go crazy over a find of sugar.
a lot of honey up a tree, and for two days they'd just gorge themselves on that.
They weren't really interested in hunting or anything else.
It was amazing.
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