Prof Tim Spector
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If you take the average, you can do better with a diet
alone than an antidepressant.
And obviously, it's all personal.
And your study didn't directly show that because it was in addition to an antidepressant.
Yeah, that's right.
But there are other studies out there suggesting that these effects are really big.
It'll protect you against inflammation and immune irritation of it.
but it could also be, having written a lot about fermented foods,
It could be it's acting on the immune system.
So we know that people who aren't used to it and suddenly get fermented foods, like we've done this big ZOE trial where we had 6,000 people taking fermented foods.
And in the first week or two of taking it, 50% of them who were taking three or more a day fermented food portions, 50% showed an improvement in mood and energy in that time.
Yeah.
This is in huge numbers of people, whereas the people who only managed one fermented food got less.
So there was a dose-response effect, which means that the more ferments you were taking every day or the more regularly you were taking them, the greater...
chance you had of having a significant improvement in mood and energy.
And energy is very much, this fatigue or energy is very much a brain symptom.
We now know that.
We used to think it was something to do with our muscles or it was something to do with
the menopause or whatever, but it all comes back to the brain about our perception of our environment.
And we believe that most of these fermented foods have a major impact on the immune system through, we don't understand all the mechanisms, but we do know that it reduces markers of inflammation.
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