Prof Tim Spector

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ZOE Science & Nutrition · LIVE Q&A: Your gut health, dementia and weight loss questions answered by Prof Tim Spector, Prof Sarah Berry & Dr Federica Amati · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

Now, the new guidelines, they mention fermented foods being good.

They mention that the microbiome is really important for the first time ever.

They mention that ultra-processed foods are bad and shouldn't be given to children.

including any sugary drinks under the age of four, or even artificial sweeteners under the age of four, which is something the UK says is fine.

And where they went a bit...

weird is they then said uh you know but you should have even more meat and butter already the average american has twice as much meat as the average european and they're saying no that's not enough you need to have these protein levels that are right up here but you've also got to do this other stuff and have a ton of vegetables do you think they should be eating more red meat no

They don't need to be twice as much as the Europeans, let alone four times as much.

At that level, particularly when most of it is processed and poor quality, it's going to increase the cancer rates.

It's going to increase heart disease rates.

And the more meat you've got on the plate, how can you squeeze your 30 plants?

It's very hard.

There's no room, especially those big American steaks.

By the time you finish that, even your salad seems very hard work.

This question comes up a lot because I think on social media, women are singled out and said this is highly dangerous and it's not safe for women, it's only safe for men, and there's big disparity.

When you look at the studies that have been done,

They're virtually all in men, and they're virtually all in young men.

One exception to that is the Zoe Big If study.

150,000 or so people did, and I think 65%, 70% were women.

So it's the largest group of women doing intermittent fasting.

And we found that actually two-thirds of people, regardless of being male or female, really benefited from it.

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