Professor Tim Spector

So clearly they're linked.

What goes on in your body, what you're eating, what your immune system is doing has this amazing knock-on effect.

Well, I like to think we've got, I've got a list that's getting longer, but I've got eight rules for gut health, which pretty much work perfectly.

For all health, because to treat the brain, it's no really different to treating the rest of your body.

If you treat that well, you're going to be fine.

So the first thing is to be mindful of what you're eating.

Don't just put any old shit in your mouth, you know?

I mean, stop for a bit and say, is this, what's in it?

Is it any good for me?

How's it going to make me feel?

You mean checking labels and stuff?

Checking labels or even just taking a second to think, you know, gosh...

don't just blindly eat in front of the tv without thinking what you're eating as we most of us do second point the key thing is i think is to eat a diversity of plants 30 plants a week these 30 plants give you the diversity of chemicals to act as fertilizers for getting as many good bugs as you can hand into your system how can you explain that to someone that doesn't know much about the gut

When I'm talking about your gut, I'm talking about your gut microbes.

And there are 40 to 100 trillion of these guys in your main, you know, large intestine that are mini pharmacies.

And...

We have thousands of different species, all of which highly selected to eat only certain foods.

There's one that only likes coffee, for example, called Lawsonobacter.

A bug that only likes coffee in my belly.

It's just waiting for you to drink coffee.