Professor Tim Spector

for some reason just wanted to survive.

And I think that's the point, that life is about getting enough nutrients so you can keep living or pass your genes on to someone else.

It's that concept.

Once that was started, maybe it was lichen, everything else came from that.

And that could have just been a chance event.

But it is always humbling to think that we've probably come back from some lowly point like this as we emerge from rocks and water.

But yeah, philosophy is not my strong suit, but I just get so much pleasure from finding new facts that are all around us.

And I think it's fascinating that we've spent so long as humans looking up at the stars and

Whereas looking inside us at things like microbes and their origin is, to me, far more exciting.

Yeah, we look at the stars, so where do we come from?

You know, what about the Big Bang?

All this kind of stuff.

Whereas actually studying what's in our cells and where do they come from, we could learn a hell of a lot more about ourselves.

I'd go for eat fermented foods and try and get three portions of ferments in your diet every day.

Every day.

And I wouldn't have said this three years ago because the science wasn't really strong enough to support that.

this but a study three years ago by a group in stanford of 28 people showed the giving they gave them five portions a day for about a month and showed that you can get a reduction in blood inflammation levels about 25 percent in that time compared to a fiber diet and that

It blew me away because this was the first really good study in this area because there have been lots of studies, but they're not good quality.

Suddenly, someone doing daily bloods, they looked at 20-odd proteins in the blood, and suddenly you've got this link between a food...

And directly affecting inflammation in the blood, which, as we've been talking about, has big knock-on effects on the brain and the rest of the body.