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Tim Spector

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“Well I was keen to avoid fats for a long time I cut back on cheese because I thought that's high in saturated fats that can't be good for you I would have bought low fat products before And so most doctors were indoctrinated with that, and many doctors are still in that mindset that fat is bad and carbs and starch are good. Drinking lots of water was good for you. And I now, having researched it for the book, know there's no hard data that you should be drinking eight glasses of water, for example, a day, which is what most of the recommended government sites tell you. And obviously the drinks industry is very keen to support that because”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, so when I was actually a medical student, I was very proud of my paper and this was great. And it was based on very poor studies done in the 1980s. And it was complete rubbish. So I'm very happy that to go and correct that mistake and tell people that, you know, you should much better to drink coffee than, say, orange juice. Orange juice tends to be in the health section, and coffee definitely in the recreational section. And they really should be changed over. Most orange juice we have is ultra-processed, high sugar, very bad for most people. Coffee is good for the vast majority of people.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, it's not the main source of fiber, but it all helps. And in the US, it's often the main source of fiber that they get. So polyphenols, the fiber, also for many people, it gets them awake and alert, has that effect of stopping tardness. So if you're careful with it, you don't overdose on it and you know it doesn't give you heart fluctuations. It's going to be actually beneficial for you long term. So this is a great example of a food that we've totally changed our minds on over the years. My first research paper I ever wrote was that coffee causes cancer.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So people don't think of it that way, think, oh, it just comes in a jar. You know, I don't need to worry about it. But actually, it comes off a tree. You get this pod, this bean, you take it off, you break it up, it then gets fermented on the floor of usually wherever it is in Africa or Asia, where it is. It's humid, the microbes are working on it, breaking it down, then you go and dry it and roast it, and that ends up being the coffee we have. So the microbes are playing a role in that. It's also a source of fiber. So three cups of coffee gives you around five grams of fiber, which is about a quarter of the average UK or US amount.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There are some people who don't tolerate it very well. They don't tolerate caffeine. A few percent of people, but even if you have decaf coffee, if it's decent quality because there's different ways of taking the caffeine out, all the studies are now showing consistently that you will have less heart disease and you will live longer if you drink coffee and are having sort of between one and four cups of coffee a day. That seems to be the sweet spot. A bit more than that, you probably got some problem, you know, that coffee is actually a fermented plant.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That wakes me up and I like it, and it's also good for me, but I won't have anything else until eleven o'clock. I'll go down and I fix myself, my bowl of full fat yogurt, and I'd put my diversity jar sprinkled in there, and I'd see what else is in the fridge. So I might have some berries if they're around at the moment, plenty of seasonal berries, might get some from the freezer if we're in the middle, you know, we're in March or something, there's no fresh berries. Or I might just chop up an apple and put it in there. I'm getting my protein. I'm getting fat. I'm not finning hungry and having a dip in energy in the middle of the day that I would probably have if I hadn't eat anything.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, so like you, I have very busy days where sometimes it goes out the window and I think we've got to realize that you've got to try and this 80-20 ideal. You know, you're trying to stick to something 80% of the time knowing that 20%, it's out of your control. Don't worry about it. And if you do that, you can do that sustainably for decades, right? It's the people who obsessed and say, I mustn't break it. And if you've broken it one day, okay. And of my brilliant experiment that's daft. So if I'm at home, for example, working at home, I'm in control of things. I will not eat anything before 11 o'clock. I will have a black coffee because I know.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Nearly any grain is better than white rice. It's got more fiber, it's got more protein in it, it's got more nutrients in it, and rice is the most overrated food, I think, even more so than bread, because, yeah, people think it's healthier than, you know, having potatoes or pasta. They associate it with healthy things because often sometimes the rest of the meal is actually quite good. And vegetable curries or whatever it is, often quite healthy. But the rice itself is really just sugar. And have it as a rare treat, but so many other grains you can have instead, quinoas, barley, oats, or even putting in lentils or legumes, beans instead of that rice just makes it so much healthier.”
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“I found this myself when I started doing my glucose levels. Even brown breads were all over the place. There are some breads that I can eat in small amounts that are still healthy, things like rye breads, and if it's sourdough, that also improves it. But I think in general we're eating far too much bread for most people. There might be some people who can support it, and that's why it's good to test your glucose responses to it. But most bread has too much sugar, not enough fiber, too many chemicals in it, and we should be looking to other things for our nutrition. Have it as a rare treat. Have it just when you go to a restaurant or whatever. But for most people, it's a real red flag for me.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Most bread is bad. Most supermarket bread is ultra processed sugar and contains many other chemicals you don't really want in you, makes you hungrier, and the general perception of the public is it's a healthy food.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“High protein, some would be gut friendly. Generally they're warning signs that this food is to be avoided find something that doesn't need their health claim. You never see a whole real food with a health claim. They don't need it. You got an apple? Doesn't need a claim. Contains vitamins, contains fiber. Real foods don't need health labels.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, just a handful of mixed nuts, an apple, a pear, something that's not super sugary or super fat, but importantly not ultra processed, not something that's got this health halo that says, eat me, I've got iron protein, I'm going to, you know. Eat me and you'll get bigger muscles. No, eat me and you'll get fatter.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“in this snack epidemic about snacks and say, you know, you don't need them. And if you do, have healthy ones and nuts and seeds and fruit are perfectly healthy ones. And we showed in our study, which we published recently, that people who do have those healthy snacks are really hardly any extra risk of health problems compared to those that don't snack, as long as it's not late at night. So if you eat within that sort of normal eating window and some people are natural snackers. I don't know if I'm not, but I know many of my colleagues at Zoe can't go two or three hours without eating. They really find it hard. But just by thinking more about that snack and saying, well, I know I've got this tendency. I'm going to eat something that's healthy.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When your body is starting to do all this work, breaking down the food, gearing up for this high activity, virtually all the snacks that people have late in the evening are bad for you. And that's because you're getting a sugar spike just before going to bed, your body's not ready for it, your gut microbes are not ready for it. It doesn't give them a rest. And so you actually end up hungrier the next day. So we're starting to realize that it's not just the food, and we've seen that most of these snacks are very unhealthy, going to make you hungrier, but the timing of it also messes up your circadian rhythms, so you're not recovering, and the next day you're going to feel hungrier than you were if you didn't snack. So it's like counterintuitive. You think, oh, if I have something before I go to bed, I'm not going to be as hungry tomorrow. And this is what many people get into this common mistake. So we need to start changing people's attitude.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so 95% of people we found in that Zoe study are snackers and most of them are unhealthy. So just by reaching for a snack, unless you're really careful, you're going to be having not only extra. but unhealthy calories that's going to undo many of the good things you're eating. So we found in the Zoe survey that people would be really focusing on their main meal, saying this is a really healthy meal. I mean plenty of plants and vegetables. But, oh, well, I've got to have my snack. And so they'd be undoing all that good by having something that would then a couple of hours later really upset their metabolism and make them hungrier. And so mess up the idea and make them hungrier. So in the UK and the US, it's around a quarter of our calories come from snacks. If we were able to even to reduce that a bit or just change that snack to a healthy one or ideally move that snacking time to the meal itself, most of these would be much less harmful if you had them at the end of your meal.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that's right. Over 90% of people snack. So it's become normal to snack in this country, in the US. It is the norm. It's not the norm in other countries. So you can see much less snacking habits in southern Europe than you do here and much less in many Asian countries as well.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it doesn't, when you read it out like that, it doesn't sound quite as natural as the label suggests, does it? Because you've just got all these ingredients that are again half of me you wouldn't find in your in your kitchen. And it's partly to... Protein packed. If you just need the nuts and the seeds, you wouldn't have to add in all this other stuff from soy and other beans and things which are ultra-processed. They're just taking that bit of it, combining it together. So some of these are better than others. But again, this is ultra-processed. All these snacks, interestingly, are really often the downfall in places like the US and the UK where we're just eating so many of our energy is coming from these snacks, which wasn't the case 20 years ago.”
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“That's a good thing to say. It's quite hard to produce some of these snack bars without having things to stick it together or gums.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it's got cheese in it. We did do some tests on this a while ago. It does have microbes in it. If it's low in fat, they've generally added something else to increase the mouthfeel. And indeed, we see here it's got stabilizers, it's got emulsifiers, all these things that we know have effects on your gut microbes, make you hungrier, and can affect your heart as well. So yeah, I would avoid that one.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, yes, it's packed with things that you wouldn't expect if you'd just squeezed a bit of juice. And I thought it was healthy. So this is a good example of a totally... fake ultra processed food that makes it look like it's real fruit and is going to be healthy for you and it is just a mix of chemicals that's just going to mess up your gut microbes and make you feel hungrier”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If it says real fruit on it, you should be very suspicious. Okay, that's the first thing to look at it. A natural flavors, that really means nothing. And this Is a great word means nothing medically, scientifically, but it's been a buzzword for me getting people to buy stuff. So basically this is a mixed blend of citrus fruits, which means the mixtures of all kinds of different fruit extracts that's combined with sugar and artificial sweeteners. They're again highly processed fruits. They're not fresh fruits. And it's got a mixture of those. It's got citric acid. It's got sugar, orange flavorings. It's got stabilizers, polyphosphates, glyceroes. It's got Looks like wood resins, acidity regulators, preservatives. It's got some potassium sorbate, potassium benzoate, it's got the sweeteners aspartame and Ace K.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just a question of money, it's just become this battle of us poor consumers against these massive companies with billions of pounds to spend on marketing that have told us this stuff is healthy because of these fake health halos, vitamins, no sugar, no this, no fat, confusing the consumer, and all the time giving us foods that not only give us disease but importantly make us overeat. We pick that stuff. Doesn't matter, it says just whether even if it's just low fat or it's got lots of other chemicals, both make you overeat by a quarter. So you'll be hungrier after eating that than you would be if you had a completely plain yogurt with none of those extra chemicals in it.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's been lots of in research since we last talked about first things like aspartame has come out as which is an artificial sweetener has been linked to many health problems including increased risk of cancers and heart disease. We've got emulsifiers have come out recently in a number of studies to show that they affect mental health and they also affect heart disease even when you adjust for the whole diet and you take just that component of the food. So we know that ultra processed foods are probably the worst things we're doing for our diets. And then in the UK the average person is saying about 60% of all their food is ultra processed without knowing about it. We're eating four times more than healthy European countries who are often poorer than us. So it's not”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Stripped of all their goodness, so they wouldn't just use cow's milk, it would be dried extract of casin or you wouldn't take wheat, it would be the stripped out inner part of that wheat, and then that temperature treated to melt it and change its composition. And to put these things back together, you need all these glues, like these emulsifiers, you need stabilizers, you need flavoring sweeteners, colorants, all these extra things to make it look like food again. So I think we shouldn't be calling ultra processed food food. That's a misnomer. We should call them edible food-like substances that are industrially made. And if we start to realize the difference between these, we can start to make smart food choices. We now know that many of these ingredients”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Nothing wrong with processed food. Cheese is processed. There's nothing wrong with that. Most of the foods we eat are some avad salt added or oil added or something like that. But it's when it's chemicals that you don't find in your kitchen being added to foods that have been”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We need to separate virtually all the food that we eat and I eat as well is processed. We need to separate that from ultra processed. So plain yogurt, nothing added, nothing, you know, changed is processed because you're mixing a basic ingredient milk with microbes. You're actually creating something, that's processing. But it's when you take it to the next stage and you would make that same product from, say, milk powder. And then you would add various starches and stabilizers, emulsifiers, concentrates, artificial sweeteners, flavorings, that same yogurt becomes ultra processed. And it's that extra step that is the main problem.”
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“Processed product that has many chemicals you don't really want in your gut because they will counteract the good effect of the gut microbes. Slightly better than the other one. But I would still not eat it myself.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So far, you know, everything looks good, doesn't it? But let's have a look and see what extra things they've added to it, which is always hard to find in packets. You often need a microscope to see them. For it to be good, it just needs microbes and milk. And that makes yogurt. You just change the temperature. That's what you get. So here we've got lots of ingredients. We've got flavorings. We've got concentrates. We've got a bit of carrot for some reason. We've got lemon juice. We've got stabilizers. We've got tapioca starch. We've got sugars. And it claims to have strawberries when they last were picked from the earth. I'm not quite sure. So it's not as bad as the other one, but basically we're looking at a highly”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So you're getting a good probiotics, it's only one lactobacillus, but that's counteracted by all this negative stuff, all these chemicals, which we know are bad for your gut microbiome. So that's not going to be good for you, or it's not going to be good for me either. So I would avoid that one. Always go for any yogurt that really has the minimum contents, just milk and microbes. That's all you need.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, when they've compared, I sort of identical meals to people in lab conditions, those eating the low fat foods, the high carb but high processed foods like this will actually overeat substantially over the next day or so. So it's actually making you overeat quite significantly. And there's no advantage to your body in terms of heart health by having this. To get zero fat and make it taste good, it's got to have lots of extra sugars and starches in there. Otherwise, you just couldn't eat it. Fat is really important naturally to make you enjoy food. And so it takes a lot of careful chemistry to mimic that fat. So I would always avoid anything that's said zero sugar, zero fat, rich in vitamins, despite the fact that this probably has something good probiotics in it.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Processed. The combination of health, what we call health halos, saying it's super healthy. With Rich and this vitamin, no sugar, no fat is very old-fashioned science. No one believes that that zero fat is any good for you anymore. And there's some actual data showing that low fat foods actually make you overeat.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, yeah, these claims, some of these claims they're allowed to put on the packet, they're very restrictive to what they can actually say in terms of health it can do date back 30 years and no longer really valid, but they have to do it because they're not allowed to even mention the word probiotic on a packet, interestingly. So they're trying to attract you in with things that would resonate with the consumer. So they do these massive surveys to say what's going to resonate with you, Steve, when you go into shop or you say, oh, what's going to make me buy this rather than one of the other ones? And so vitamin D we've been flogging vitamin D for forever 10 minutes in the sun will get you all the vitamin D you need and it's in most foods anyway you don't really need it in addition in these things 0% added sugar and 0% added fat mean that it's highly”
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“It's just the effect of those microbes. On that grape skin, just changing it over time, increasing that complexity and producing chemicals. It's basically a sort of chemistry lesson.”
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“Yes, they do and they but importantly they live much longer and have much less of our chronic diseases or they sort of delay those problems by at least ten years. So I think we need to learn from the populations that are doing it right. And this is a really easy. And I think it's a great exercise in teaching because if you think what's going on, this is mirroring what's going on inside your gut. If you had that rich diversity of plants in there, you can get many microbes to proliferate. And once you start seeing the bubbles forming and the amazing change in taste and texture that you're getting, you've got to remember this is the difference between a grape and an amazing vintage red wine.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So this is why fermented foods, I think, are a real answer to many of our problems. You know, the fact that we've got a rather western deprived microbiome, these could really help people like you want to boost your gut microbiome. And just introducing this fermented foods into your regular diet. And this is what the Koreans do, for example, the Japanese do by using fermented soybeans in nearly all their foods. So many of the healthiest populations have large amounts of fermented food in their diets.”
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“Yeah, once it's fermented, it's become acidic. and the pH has dropped below 4.5, no other microbes can live there. Only the ones you've selected personally. These are your probiotic microbes that we know are good for your health. And the difference between this and your probiotic capsule is that you'll probably get 30 different microbes here. Whereas you take your capsule, you might get two or three.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, this is a nicer looking one that's what I did earlier, and I'm just going to say you can see a few bubbles there. It's just starting to get going. And you can open it up every day or so to give it a smell and see what's happening, making sure it's packed down so that it's all below the waterline. Once you've done this, once it's fermented after a week, you can put in the fridge for months.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I like to do is use some leftover waste so I get some outside cabbage leaves or something else from a plant and just put it down in there, squash it and so you can see that it's now below the water line. I close the lid And that's basically it. And I would leave that for a minimum of three days, somewhere room temperature out of the sun, and you'll start to see bubbles forming. And that's CO two. The microbes are producing that. They're fermenting it. That's it. You've got suddenly your own probiotic fermented food made from your scraps rather than throwing it out. And that's a great example of what you can do to Really improve your health for something that costs nothing apart from the price of salt.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that means that they can out compete the other guys because it's suddenly a different environment and that's what we're doing. So you squash it down and I'm going to add a little bit of water here. Sometimes you don't need to add hardly any water. And if you add more than a bit, just add a little bit of salt to that water, just enough to cover it because the microbes are naturally in all these plants. People don't realize that. They think, oh, it must be sterile. I've got it from the nice supermarket and a plastic wrapper. It's full of microbes. And that's normal. And we know that even in garlic, for example, even when you cut it, there are perhaps ten, twenty different types of microbe living in that garlic. And once they sense the water and the salt, they will suddenly say, oh, it's good to come out, I can out compete, I can grow, I can start munching the sugar. And then to pack it down, you either use, you can use some stones, some clean stones.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The idea is you add the salt. So we're adding 2% salt. This is really important to measure it. So that's the only thing really tricky is to make sure that you've got 2% salt and that gets poured in there and you would mix it around. I would normally put it in a big bowl and do it, but you get the idea here. You put the salt in, you mix it around, and you scrunch it down really hard. So, you know, like really getting rid of any space for air because the microbes don't like air. The ones that ferment, they call anaerobic, they don't like oxygen, and so they grow really well when you cut out the oxygen and they can just live off, start eating the sugars in these plants and the salt gives them a competitive advantage against nasty microbes.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. So a few years ago, I'd have just thrown this in the bin. I wouldn't have thought about doing it. So you throw it out. People have heard about sauerkraut, which is basically just fermented cabbage. And you might have heard of kimchi. Which is the Korean version, which has just got a few more things in it, like chilies and ginger and spices. And this is a sort of mixture of all of them, but it's just to illustrate the fact that you can ferment virtually all plants and avoid the waste. And that's what our ancestors did before fridges, because all you need to do is put them in a jar and squash them down and add 2% salt and a little bit of water to cover it. And that's all you do. And I can just demonstrate that now for you if you like. So we've got all these in here.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we've got a jar, like a one liter jar of which is full of chopped veg from the bottom of my fridge. All of us would have fridges like this where you've got odds and ends left behind and the idea is that rather than throwing it away, you can actually just chop it up and ferment it.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Adding something like salt or sugar, and that then allows natural microbes on those plants to flourish and change the composition for that food. So they make it acidic, they get rid of all the bad bugs, and they make it into something super healthy and all the microbes are growing just like they would be in your gut if you fed them. So it's like a mini version of your gut is what we're seeing here. And it's incredibly easy to do. So that's why I brought this stuff along so that I can demonstrate not only how to get extra plants into your thirty a week, but also if those plants are fermented, they have many more times more nutrients in them, and the fact that those bugs have been working on them means they've been in a way pre-digested before they get into your gut. And all these studies are showing these are super.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think people are frightened by fermentation and it's important to know what it is and what it isn't. So fermentation is a word lots of different meanings, but it's when food is modified by microbes to produce something that tastes different, tastes better, and is also healthy for you. And in a way it's a probatic food. Because what we're doing is we're taking basic whole foods and we are”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Krebs in you, but a lot of them are actually inside us waiting and places like our appendix may be sources of tiny amounts of these microbes that are just waiting for the right signal to wake up.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. And you may have, and you've kissed your girlfriend, you've got some of her microbes, and they're just sitting there waiting to be fed, right? They might be in a very dormant state. Many of these microbes can go into spore formation and stay there for years doing nothing in tiny amounts. And they only wake up when, you know, a peanut hits them on the head or something and says, oh, Steve's given me some food at last. I can eat this. I couldn't eat the other. I can't eat Nando's. I'm going for this. So that's the concept that you want to give them this rich soil so that they can flourish. And you can gain microbes from going to other countries, you know, eating a variety of foods and there are microbes that live on a lot of fresh produce that you can get. You get them from dogs, animals, just by having a pet around the house or going to the countryside. You can get more.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. You could kiss your girlfriend. And there is quite a lot of swapping between partners, by the way, in microbes. So you're not wrong there. But unless they had something to eat, they'd die off, okay? So what you're doing is... You know, we are continually surrounded by many of these microbes. We are swapping microbes with all our close friends and family all the time. But unless you've got the fertilizer in you, they're not going to survive.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Your immune health would be better, so Immunity would be better, so you'd get less food allergies, you'd get resistance to infection would be better.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You need to be getting more diversity in there to grow more species so that you can keep them all happy. And they live off diversity and variety just as we humans do”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely, yes. So they're high fiber and high protein. And that's why they are so nutritious. And why if you're having this sort of stuff, you really don't need chemical supplements. And so that's just one of several hacks about how you can add these to your foods very easily, as well as mentally just thinking, I want to try and find... Different things to my meal. I don't want to have the same meal every single day. People get stuck going to their local sandwich shop and saying, I'm only having that prawn salad. Prawn salad, prawn salad. Just think every day, go something different. And if people start thinking differently about food, not only does it excite the taste buds a bit more and gets you out of your rut, but it's also going to generate many more microbes. So, you know, if you're going to beat me.”
2023-10-05 · The Diary of a CEO · The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT