Prof Tim Spector
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Not the microbes themselves, but it's actually this whole concept of inflammation.
Because microbes are controlling our immune system, something goes wrong, the immune system goes out of control, you get extra inflammation, and that's why this applies to all brain diseases, not just one or two.
This is very much a holistic problem, and that's why we're facing this epidemic in this country.
Yeah, that's right.
Psychiatrists have divided the brain disorders into 360 different conditions.
And all of them have no diagnostic test.
They're just a group of symptoms that every five or 10 years, psychiatrists agree this goes together with this.
But they all overlap.
They all have the same risk factors.
They all end up having multiple symptoms overlapping after a period of 20 years.
And the genes, I used to be big into genetics, the genes for risk of these are all the same.
There's no big difference.
It looks like it's just one disease that's just presenting differently at different times in life, maybe at different exposures.
So I think we need to step back and take a much more holistic view of mental health and realize that
The one thing we've been overlooking and psychiatrists have never really talked about is how important the gut is and how important our diet is and why we've got the biggest nerve in our body runs from our gut to our brain and 80% of the traffic is from the intestine to the brain, not the other way around.
Whereas the rest of the body...
the nerves all run most of the signals from the brain to the rest of the body, whereas the gut is the opposite.
So the gut could be seen to be directing the brain.
So I think once you sort of change this paradigm, we can start to really get to grips with it.
And people see the link between mood and food.
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