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

So it's quite possible in addition to

this specific effect on this little seahorse type area of the brain, it could have a general calming of information in the brain, which we now know is really important.

So it brings in this whole other idea of anti-inflammatory effects being good for things like depression.

The more we discover, the more complex it gets.

That's definitely the story of nearly everything in science, but particularly the brain.

And I think it's

We may want to just go back a notch and just say, okay, a healthy brain is one that has hardly any inflammation in it.

It's getting the right signals from the rest of the body.

It gets its main signals from the gut.

The gut gets its healthy signals if it's eating the right foods and the microbes are converting that into the right chemicals.

That I think to me is the crucial link.

And I think once we make this link between how that affects mood, and we're seeing this in lots of trials, whether it's the ZOE trials, whether it's your studies, I think we're getting this

consistent message that we have to look after our guts if we're going to look after our brains.

And it's not just limited to depression and anxiety.

Everything I've looked at, every mental health disorder has an element that you can link back to gut and diet or inflammation.

I think it's all part of the same spectrum.

And I think we need to stop seeing mental health issues as 360 separate symptoms and start seeing this as one organ.

And equally for depression or dementia, the brain is reacting in a way that

is inappropriate for our age.

And the genes and risk factors for all these are very similar, which tells us there must be common ground.

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