Prof Tim Spector
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first heard Apr 2026
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They don't even make the link.
that there's any connection there at all.
And yet this is one of the most powerful interventions that they can do.
And the science is catching up now with the observations.
So we've had these rather crude observations.
We had the science...
From my point of view, the microbiome science has been there for a while, and a lot of that has been in mice.
You can produce anxiety or depression in mice just by swapping around their gut microbes from one to another.
In a way, a bit like mental health problems being an infectious disease, which I think is kind of…
freaky sort of uh viewpoint but that's what these mouse models show but until you've shown it in humans it's never really real and so linking all that stuff with uh the the changes in in the smiles trial really to me makes it much more concrete that we have here you know a real uh
reality that we know that our food improves your gut microbiome and that then improves what's going on in your brain and those signals to the brain.
And it's so important because we know that the gut is the major source of information to the brain.
So I think the most exciting area in science at the moment is this gut-brain connection that we're re-evaluating all the time.
And it's bringing in all this new neuroscience, particularly
on inflammation, which we've talked about on this show a lot, how important it is to keep inflammation levels low.
And we know that people with depression and mood problems have raised inflammation levels on average.
And all of us actually in the Western world have raised inflammation levels compared to people in other countries.
This link that what's going on in our choice of food is changing to our gut microbes.
They're then producing these chemicals which send signals to the brain.
That brain then interprets that as being unwell.
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