Prof Tim Spector

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ZOE Science & Nutrition · How to build a better brain: The 5 foods you need to protect your memory, mood and to cut dementia risk | Prof Felice Jacka & Prof Tim Spector · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

And then we go into this cycle of depression behavior, which is a protection for the body.

So there's the other way of thinking about it.

We know that inflammation is a protective response.

What's happening is inflammation in the brain is also a protective response.

It's just inappropriate.

It's just doing it at the wrong time.

But it is incredible.

There's so few studies out there because this whole field, particularly the clinical area, has been cut off from the rest of medicine.

You know, why do we put people in...

mental hospitals?

Why are they separate?

The worst diets are in mental hospitals.

And in some surveys, they've shown that long-term psychotic patients, about 70% of them have type 2 diabetes.

And the doctors looking after them are not trained in looking after diabetes or metabolic health at all.

And the whole thing is just perpetuating everyone being made worse by their environment rather than better.

And we know the drugs we've got, unfortunately, they help a few people, but they really fail to live up to our hopes and haven't really changed in the last 50 years.

Right.

So using this model of these sterile mice, you can implant microbes from a stressed, anxious mouse into a sort of neutral mouse with no microbes.

And that new mouse will then display the same anxious brain symptoms as the initial one.

So I was being a bit joking about infectious disease, but

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