Tim Spector's journey from health crisis to healthy eating - a chapter from Food for Life

[@paulclay4293]

My philosophy on food is 'start with a knife' - if you are having to chop ingredients up then you are on the right lines.

[@joinZOE]

Great way to think about it 👏

[@pappacicciafulham]

The most sensible and enjoyable talk I've heard in a long time; as the owner of Italian restaurants, I smiled when you talked about the warm bread in restaurants, we make our own and customers can't resist it. Thanks Tim and Johnathan.

[@mudoh2131]

I have the book - and have even read it! However, it was great to have this chapter narrated by Tim, thank you. I am on the Zoe programme (daughter joining in March), and I am finding it fascinating. Love cooking and experimenting with food and this has given me the impetus to do more of it.

[@bobadams7654]

Loved hearing an audio book chapter. Many thanks.

[@joinZOE]

We're so happy to hear you enjoyed it 🙏

[@bobadams7654]

@@joinZOE is the whole book available as an audio book?

[@beth6787]

Thank you Johnathan, Tim & Team ZOE for another great podcast : and the pertinent seasonal prompt after all the “festive” binge eating. Back to a sensible diet tomorrow 😉 Looking forward to all the exciting discoveries to be unearthed by Sarah Berry and her team in 2023. HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL.

[@dianaknight600]

Brilliant Thankyou Zoe x good start and advice for now and moving into 2023

[@laurajones6263]

Hi, and very many thanks to everyone at ZOE for a thought-provoking and interesting 2022. Looking forward to seeing what 2023 has to offer. I've been enjoying many of the Podcasts and two of Tim's excellent books, and am now on day 75 of my reporting for the IF study. I discovered fasting via Dr Jason Fung's work back in Feb 2020, so have been a convert for a while, and it is part of my day to day lifestyle now - and for evermore! I wanted to throw a couple of thoughts into the mix, possibly for ZOE's expert contemplation. I took part in a wonderful online course on fascia, pain and ageing a couple of months ago with the expert Tom Myers (of Anatomy Trains fame). One of many things I found fascinating is that apparently the fascia system has its own microbiome, about which pretty well nothing is really known yet. Given that the fascia is everywhere in the body, and is the richest source of information the brain has, with its own communication system, could there be any linkup with the gut microbiome, with combined impacts on our health? Secondly, through my work as a Pilates instructor for nearly 20 years, I have become increasingly convinced of the health impact of how people breath - how poor breathing can damage health and how optimal breathing can promote good health. There are widespread effects on blood chemistry, hormones, etc. Could this also interact with the effects of diet and gut microbiome?

[@luca6635]

One topic that I've never heard dr Spector talk about is the amount of daily proteins to get through our diet. While the FDA recommends 0,8g/Kg body weight, experts are now recommending twice as much, based on recent studies on how to avoid sarcopenia. A low daily protein consumption, and/or lack of resistance training, has been proven to lead almost certainty to a significant loss of muscle mass, regardless of the general health status and body weight. Without a sufficient daily protein intake AND resistance training, weight loss is going to be in average 70% fat, and 30% lean mass, which is very bad news even if you manage to get your weight under control. As much as I appreciate what you guys are doing at Zoe, I suspect that the diet and lifestyle that dr Spector is advocating, with low consumption of meat and fish, and aerobic exercise instead of resistance training, may not be an ideal one, when it comes to maintaining an ideal level of strength and lean mass.

[@samchambers5934]

I do love this but I really wish the part about alcohol wasn't so easy breezy - alcohol is literal poison that has no benefits other than pleasure, which is fine, but one alcohol free day a week is dodgy territory in my opinion. It should be if anything one alcohol day per week or no alcohol at all. Alcohol disrupts sleep (William Porter's book covers this) even one glass. It is also full of sugar, as well as being highly addictive. The alcohol free movement is gaining such momentum as people understand how bad it is for you, and society as a whole. I am three years alcohol free and I feel the best I have ever felt in my life, I feel my soul is much happier.

[@greenknitter]

I have one glass of double fermented Belgium beer -great for gut health, or German beer in the early evening at the weekend. For me I enjoy the social aspect of that as well as the nutritional so while of course drinking too much is harmful, an occasional glass is not going to do any harm if you don't have diabetes or sleeping problems.

[@martinjanecek4950]

Everything essential in there. Good work.

[@richarddobson4382]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[@dgeorgaras4444]

When you put something in your child’s mouth, ask yourself if you would feed this to your dog…. If not, then why would you give this to your child?

[@nickturnock3369]

Yes to green cabbage, pointed, sweet heart and savoy. If you have to watch your weight it can be used instead of pasta or rice.

[@le832]

Interesting…I have less of a glucose spike with bread. Most spike with potato, rice, and pasta…in that order. Also, I discovered that the gluten-free French buckwheat crepe “galette” gives me little to no spike. Surprisingly, fruits are my nemesis. Even berries, which I love. 😢

[@PegSadie]

That’s why the Zoe testing is so great. You’ll see how your body handles different foods. It was a huge eye opener for mr. Totally changed how I eat. I’m so much healthier plus easily lost that menopause tummy. And love eating now.

[@greenknitter]

Drink a tbsp of vinegar in a glass of water before the berries, potato, rice or pasta and then read your glucose levels. French biochemist Jessie Inchauspé was on Zoe a while ago and she said this works to cut glucose spikes before you eat, often in half.

[@nickturnock3369]

Thanks. Pinhead oats looks like a cheaper alternaive tp steel cut oats - probably worth paying the extra for organic. I don't like the taste boilng gives milk so I make my porrige with water, after it's cooled I add a little double cream.

[@greenknitter]

I tried pinhead and couldn't eat them, tasted awful to me. So I stick with a smaller portion of rolled organic oats, but I drink a tblsp of AVC in water before I eat them to lower my glucose response.

[@michaelstreeter3125]

Bought "Spoon Fed", and bought the core Zoe product, but not buying this book. Very interested to listen to this; liking, but not buying! 😘 I agree kombucha is a good alcohol substitue (can't stand Fanta).

[@wendy1908]

I love meat and I love cheese for how much flavour a tiny amount adds to meals.

[@a1treated]

All OK for ," pots of Dosh"boringly told , he didnt mention vast amounts of Glysophates( Round up) on lots of farm greens, even organic, are swamped in it , especially Oats, not Removable by washing.. B12 very hard to obtain with out Red meats chicken or fish, my zoe predict ?? Eat like your mum or dad did , less is more ..

[@kencarey3477]

Doesn't kombucha have too much sugar?

[@willalm830]

if I grind flax seeds and add to brown rice with vinegar will it dull the sugar spike as with all carbs bread mix and the like

[@bobadams7654]

It might do, there's a Zoe podcast on ways to do such things. However, we are all individual. My CGM results were very boring, it looks like I have very good responses to carbs.

[@NessaNZ]

I think you can let the rice go cold in fridge and it turns it into resistance starch?

[@willalm830]

Yes but as it is the fibre that is the missing or one of the most important from the industry mass production food we are surrounded with can we add that they remove, the individual effect is of no importance we all need to protect Against the effect of sugar ,so asking can we have an effect by adding fibre to a whole range of foods is in my mind important

[@nesanesa9547]

Xxxx Whooohooo.. Where can i büy the book??? Up a big mountain in Turkiye...A ha ha ha happy new year to us all...lol.

[@TheArizonaSkies]

Not terribly impressed here. How about antibodies attacking the thyroid? Mine have gone up and I have been told No Gluten! The numbers are determined by my blood tests, but no other symptoms are evident. I joined the ZOE study and now wonder about that decision. This discussion seems one sided and condescending.

[@karadevereux1049]

When is the Zoe program likely to be available in Australia/New Zealand if ever? You are so extremely slow in rolling it out everywhere, no point publicising it if the waiting list is tens of thousands long (as noted in your website) and you are so very slow to making it become available outside the UK. I have used US based genetic health programs with no issues, and they have prompt return with reports. Not at all inspiring, you need to lift your game to be a prominent player in this field.

[@carolginsberg662]

Are you able to share the name of the US based genetic health program that you used?

[@user-qq4wt9wf8d]

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[@jakobw135]

If you start with chapter 11, I guess you might as well throw in the towel, eh? But seriously though, why did professor Spector abandon the vegan diet when people like Dr Michael Greger, Dr Joel Khan, Dr John McCullough, Dr Rick Esselstyn and others have shown through the meta evidence, that it is the most beneficial diet of all? P.S. Better to gain insight than weight, right? 😀

[@NikoHL]

It's unsustainable and unnecessary.

[@jakobw135]

@@NikoHL Don't you think that your audience deserves the opposing view from an objective perspective? P S. Can you interview the people suggested above together with Tim Spector?

[@jakobw135]

@@NikoHL WHY is it unsustainable and unnecessary? Your audience could certainly BENEFIT from a LIVE discussion between the OMNIVORES and the VEGANS, don't you think?

[@mrscpc1918]

@@NikoHL can you explain why you assert that ? I really want to know. It seems eminently sustainable and necessary from all the evidence and research I have seen. Thankyou

[@mrscpc1918]

Why is this man not understanding that he is still eating for taste delight which is NOT the same as eating for health.

[@BigBlue1895]

It really is difficult to take Tim's work seriously as an evidence based scientist when he wilfully ignores the science on things like statins. Wise up Tim. You've already proved your earlier self wrong on some many things why do you continue to believe that the pharmaceutical industry is there to make us better when you've just woke up to what the food industry does to us?

[@flightmarine]

I have been contributing to to ZOE app for over 2 years.... this sounds like an advert.. and I will stop watching.. sorry!

[@Bernard-ux2eb]

How much money did Tony Blair give you?