Summary of Tim's tips: 1. Try and eat 30 different plants a week. This includes nuts, seeds and herbs. 2. Pick foods high in polyphenols that gives them their bright colours. This includes nuts and seeds, berries, dark chocolate, coffee and even red wine. (yay!) 3. Try some fermented foods every day to boost your gut microbes. 4. Avoid ultra processed foods. Now where's that jar of Sauerkraut I got and never opened....? Thanks team, very informative.
If that jar of sauerkraut has been around for a while it’s very likely pasteurised which I believe kills off all the good bacteria. You need to get it unpasteurised from the chilled cabinet or make it yourself (not difficult and lots of info here on RU-vid) .
@@tonydization unprocessed Coco is the only way to get the polyphenols present in natural cocoa. Dutch processed leads to them being destroyed and processing into chocolate leads to their being destroyed. If you have a quality organic unprocessed cocoa powder it's pretty tasty with some cinnamon and ginger and you can froth into some hemp milk or stir into your coffee. It does have about 50 mg of caffeine per serving so be aware of the time of day you consume it.
Australian dietitian here. I can't thank you enough for your brilliant research and presentations. After 20 years in practice you inspire me about food again.
About 6 years ago my husband and I took a 3 week holiday in Thailand. He was clearly unwell before we set off, but during that 3 weeks, eating Thai food his symptoms actually improved. 2 weeks after we came home he was diagnosed with stage 4 nasopharyngeal cancer and told he would likely survive up to 2 years with treatment, less than 6 months without. He took the treatment. We also changed our diet following a book 'Beating cancer with Nutrition' He's still here. Cancer free. Really interesting stuff this, thankyou Zoe & Tim 🙏
I got diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in may this year and I have scans to prove that I am reversing the disease with nutrition and a holistic program. It’s possible with nature!
@@karacolclough3106 sorry to hear you are going through it because its really scary and hard at the time, but yes, do believe you can beat it and take an holistic approach. Best wishes 🙏♥️
I’m watching this video today and I was wondering how your husband was doing 11 months down the road. A very good friend has just been diagnosed with colon cancer and I’m trying to convince him to fast and then change his diet. Did your husband receive any chemo? Hope he’s still feeling healthy!!!
@@tootstoyou1 thank you for asking. He had both chemo and radiotherapy. He was clear of the cancer after 6 months and is still cancer free and doing really well. Tell your friend to think positively and definitely look at nutrition.
I would love a 2 week holiday stay somewhere in the country where the food I eat would be on the Zoe lines, talks on preparation of the food could be demonstrated to get the best benefit from it and where tests were taken and analysed during my stay. At the end of the 2 week period I could leave with a better idea of the type of food that suited me, how to prepare it, a suggested weekly menu of meals and a super mind set after maybe attending yoga sessions, walking more in the countryside, being away from anti-bacterial gels, attending talks on mindfulness and maybe doing some garden tasks. The new Health Farm for the future. I would be there like a shot especially as I would more than likely be with like minded individuals. Hotel Zoe all the way!
I think you would find really there is no magic or mystery in the Zoe hotel, and what they would teach is 99% common sense. There really is nothing new here as far as diet goes, it is just the research that is catching up.
Why on earth is this programme not available in the UK? As someone who has just had to take a course of antibiotics for the first time in over 40 years due to bad bacteria in the gut (h pylori), I’d be fascinated to be involved. Please just take my money! Keep up the good work, gentlemen.
I think it's being rolled out in the New Year . Personally I can't wait iv had digestive issues for over 40 years and have tried many diets with little or no effect ...
The answer is yes! Useful during a flare up but not sustainable for any length of time.. We do have to be realistic about what any intervention can deliver.. Zoe appears to be cutting through the c confusion by focusing on personalised diet s based on evidence based procedures this is definitely worth a shot..
I had dermatitis a while ago and I kept saying that I was sure that it was coming from inside me. For years I was prescribed steroid cream...it did nothing and in the end I sorted it myself. I ate a mixed plant diet and found a soothing cream that suited my skin. I agree with the science on so many levels (I am just a lay person, not a scientist). I would like to get hold of a Zoe kit!
We started keto lifestyle in may 2020 male and female 53 years old 19stone (f) size 18. type 2 diabetes (m) 52inc waist. hypertension. Diabetes removed in 3 weeks Hypertension gone within 6 months. We have lived of nut seeds berries meats plants. This is amazing science. 2021 (m) 28 waist 10st (F) size 8 Our results lifestyle improved every day.
I’ve suffered with bad digestive problems for years. Last year I took the leap and started growing all my own fruit and veg, using no pesticides and it dramatically improved. I started making my own sauces, bread and pasta and It became even better but I still had bouts of stomach problems. Someone recommended that I take acidophilus tablets, and I’m on a 5billion daily dose…..and for 5 weeks now I’ve had no problems at all, it’s changed my life
Two bouts of anaphylaxis shock requiring trips to the ER was the wake up call that this COVID-19 long hauler had a problem with the autoimmune system. The ticket back to being symptom free has been diet and supplements targeting the gut microbiome. I must be totally accountable for everything I put into my body and daily monitor my levels. I'm not a diabetic, but I strongly adhere to a diabetic eating plan.
Sounds like this could be something really beneficial. Having worked many years in the somewhat unhealthy environment of sewage which at first caused some severe Diarrhoea and vomiting bouts that could last for a week. Over time the sickness became less and less each time I became infected and finally I never had any more trouble at all.
My simple summary would be, when reading the label on something if you cannot spell something easily, or you have no idea what it is, try and eat less of it or non at all. It seems the simplest foods are the healthiest and just eat as wide as variety as you can manage.
Jonathan is really expert at picking up where a step might be missing for someone who knows nothing about this subject and getting the excellent professors to fill it out. They are both very clear communicators but his spotting the skipped stitches is also a big contributor to how well this podcast works
I had always an allergy to milk. But didn't realise until my symptoms got worse. I had to cut it out completely. It totally damaged my digestive system. I had two fundiplication leading to gastropareses and now Barrats oesophagus. I also had loads of antibiotics and that affected my gut bacteria. I also have Type 1 diabetes. LADA that started aged 58. Everything you say has made sense. Especially also over-processed food.
So was I when I was a little at school they used to get us to drink crate milk which was offen warm as it was left outside I coughed for 67 years, as a child I offen had to be excused from class because I was chocking, given it up over the last four years and stopped chocking drink alternatives now nobody took any notice of me when I was young.
As a teacher at pre school I continually noticed that most new children that joined us would pick their nose and eat it. It seemed to me that this is a natural ‘inoculation’ effect until of course we generally stop them doing it!
Just the opposite, as fingers in noses just a way to spread harmful pathogens and if nasal lining is ruptured from the digging, even worse outcomes as pathogens can more easily enter bloodstream and with the brain so near ... Saline/water rinses for the nasal passages is the way to go... especially in the dryer Fall and Winter months with indoor heating.
Why isn't the kit available in the UK? I registered 7 or 8 months ago. Any chance of some info on the website re what the schedule/hold-up is? Thanks, really interesting podcast.
@@lornafw It's called an allotment. Cheap and accessible and there is a community on each one where people share plants, produce and workload if you are lucky. And the strange thing is people into their 80s seem to be active and alert doing this - certainly they seem more able and active than many of a similar age that are sedentary. Better than a gym every time and healthier in every way. It needs a change of attitude and lifestyle as well as being time efficient. Gove it a go - you never know - you might like it.
@@3yebeamsit seems too obvious to point out but many people living in larger UK cities would not have access to an allotment or a garden. Working parents with childen definitely will not have the time. And please don't forget many people watch this internationally where pretty mych everyone lives in apartments and allotments don't exist. Gardening and growing is good for you but for most people doing both that and doing strength training (aka gym) would be more optimal for health.
I have been working to improve my microbiome for a few years now. I have coeliac disease and think it's important to have the healthiest Microbiome as possible. I ferment my own veg, eat Kafir, and other fermented food, have loads of fresh veg, eat beans and lentils all the time. All was going well until I developed tooth pain. Not just one tooth but two, one on either side. It got so bad that I was taking paracetamol every 4 hours. I had the first tooth pulled out last week. Then during the following week the second tooth began to cause pain. Again I was on the paracetamol, but this one was worse so I had to take Ibuprofen as well, then it got so bad that I took Naproxen twice. I had the tooth out today after a weekend of enforced fasting, no food for 3 days. None of this was down to my oral hygiene BTW. The first one was caused by a wisdom tooth preventing me brushing the one next to it so it developed a hole under the gum line. The second was because a previous dentist had over filled the tooth and broke it, subsequently causing it to split down the middle. Neither tooth could be saved. Anyway I digress. The reason I an rambling on is because I need help on the quickest was to get my Microbiome back to a healthy level.
a better understanding of this ecosystem would also determine which bacterial strain or prebiotic would be the ideal treatment for a given bowel disorder
We chlorinate water to - kill the bugs. What effect might there be, if any ,to our microbiome when we drink chlorinated water. Have any studies been done on the effect of chlorinated water to the human microbiome?
The chlorine gas evaporates within a minute. Just don't drink the water before then. Stick some cordial in a fresh pint of water from the tap and watch the bubbles.
I recently listened to a lady on a BBC Radio programme who had been only eating foraged foods for 12 months. She had her biome examined by a nutritionalist, who told her it was off the scale!
Took me years to accept the fact that I could no longer digest bread. My favorite food was causing me discomfort for days. Once I cut grains out, added greek yogurt & organic fruits & raw vegetables, the change was so noticeable in how my stomach felt & looked. No discomfort, no bloating. If you have stomach issues, toggle your diet with selective elimination & see if there is a food group that you can't handle anymore. Be patient & observant, and perhaps you can tweak your diet & microbiome to improve how you feel.
This is truly fascinating, my simple understanding of food and eating the right food started in 1988. A year before, i suffered from a skull fracture. I spent several years relearning many of my living skills...As time past, i changed and added more information. I had read and started to gain more experience. Then, I joined your studying with COVID test. I have now developed further facts as times passed
Have now taken part in the testing phase and eagerly await my results. Wearing the blood glucose monitor was a real insight. The coaching and challenges so helpful. I can now easily eat more that 30 different plans a week - just loving it. Much more energy and sleeping better too!
Noticing the profit driven product vs. Evidence driven medicine: the UK has nationalized healthcare and Zoe has crowd sourced data. It's a really healing, helpful resource.
I can remember discussing this back in the mid 1980s when I was doing my research degree. Great to see its being taken seriously and that good quality research is underway. Are we born with certain gut bugs and do these change over time in response to environmental and digestion?
I understand that when a woman is approaching birth, the microbes migrate to the birth canal, and also into breast milk for a while. So the newborn is seeded with the mother’s microbiome. I may be wrong.
Just use your brain. Bacteria shows up where it’s food is. So if you want good bacteria in your gut, eat the food it likes, and it will show up. If you eat other stuff, you get the bacteria that likes to eat that. It’s really simple.
@@keithtwort9655 absolutely you do get seeded with the mother’s micro biome. However, once you’re out, your microbiome is a function of your environment and what you put in your body. It takes 3 days for the bacteria in your gut to adapt to a change in diet, it’s really quick. If you want to learn more about this have a look at Dr Zach Bush, he is a thought leader in this area.
@@keithtwort9655 you pointed to something I hadn’t thought about before, and we combine your thoughts and my thoughts together, what I see is an opportunity to create optimal health for the child, my optimising the mothers diet during pregnancy.
I cannot get anybody to answer this: How much of a microbiome do people without colons (ileostomy, for example) have? Is there anything these patients can do with their sometimes limited diet, to improve their gut health? It would be just great if somebody could answer this, especially as many of these people have high levels of inflammation.
Tim and Co. As the microbes help us do they also kill us when we have carried out our purpose to reproduce. Thank you all. At 76 I am learning something new. Exciting stuff.
It depends what you eat. If you eat stuff nasty bacteria like to breakdown and consume, you get those bacteria. If you eat the food that healthy bacteria like to eat, you get those bacteria. Processed food attracts nasty bacteria. Lentils are one of the easiest things you have a little of daily and it will feed your god bacteria. If you really want to boost your immune systems ability to mount an immune response, you need to have a high level of vitamin D in your blood, up around 125 is recommended. Most people to do this will need to take 5000ui daily if they haven’t been taking it. If you get it up high enough it will stop cancer. We significantly reduce morning and mortality in this country with this cheap, simple measure. And it’s not being done. Stop worshiping big pharma, they are sucking the life out of you.
Are allergies and gut microbes related? Fascinating listening to this. Developed allergy issues during lockdown later tests found have high histamine levels. Had to take histaglobulin shot. However stomach hasn't been the same. Have on off digestive issues with constipation or diarrhoea, gas, pains, indigestion and mal-absorption. Then days of things being okay. The large intestine has the most issues although when the problem is more acute it's more widespread in the entire digestive system. Seems like those gut microbes are off balanced. Found out eggs which I was never allergic to before set things off! Also fish or meat isn't the best food for me these days. Seems I lost some microbes or ability to digest those food groups after 39 years on this planet. Weird
I used to have summer allergies for a number of years. I then found out about the microbiome and started to include yogurt (homemade) and kimchi in my diet. The summer allergy disappeared. Then I stopped the yogurt and kimchi. The allergies came back. So I'm back to yogurt and kimchi. Adding other foods as well to the mix.
Great presentation. Read all Tim and Will's books and they're brilliant, but getting a little fed up of being told over 2 years that Zoe is coming to the UK 'soon', despite the founders being British. And what's with all the Englishmen pronouncing words with an American accent? Doing a brilliant Anglo-American project but please don't let's lose our English roots.
Are there any large, well-funded RCT's to prove the benefits of a diverse gut microbiome? That appears to be the gold standard these days, if not the only standard, that people like Tim himself look for when evaluating protocols or drugs. IVM anyone?
I wondered this. Big fan of Tim, but as someone who works in public health I'm naturally suspicious of dietary or digestive claims around holistic health, so would really like to have more assurance.
@@wizardaka I'm actually a firm believer in Tim's hypothesis regarding the benefits of a diverse gut microbiome. I changed to a high fibre diet about five years ago, and now with zero sugar, lowish carbs and all animal fats, I easily maintain the same weight I had in my twenties. I was just being snarky about Tim's views on IVM, which I also use prophylactically before travel.
Absolutely, regenerative organic farming weather it be for Meat or Plants is the only way to save our planet and make us healthier, it is so very simple.
Dear scientists at Zoe. I hear from friends and family that Indonesian women are commonly constipated. I tried to find some research on this, but only found some about children. Could you do a video about this and suggest what changes to the diet could be made? Please?
As someone who developed gut issues ( still unresolved a year on) , potentially with a long covid involvement i cant wait for uk availability. Ive had endoscopy, ct scan, bloods, and been on omeprazole and no progress so has to be unpicked…
Thank you for this episode. I thought you might be interested to know that my husband and I have both had aches for around 3 days after our Pfizer booster around 2 weeks ago. Fully recovered from that, but we both still have a raging thirst. Is that common?
My family including one grandparent and my daughter have irritable bowel syndrome. My dad ate a v restricted plain diet. I have eaten everything but about once a week my gut gets upset. Lettuce is a frequent trigger. Parsnips too. If I eat mashed potato and simple fruits and yoghurt it calms down. Daughter is the same. We would love to get tested Any chance of doing it in the UK soon ?
I am faced with taking antibiotics for H Pylori. 14 days Amoxicillin, Clarithomycon and another Lparmezole. What should I do? More expensive but natural route with mixed results or antibiotics ? Has anyone had this experience? I want to preserve my microbiome that I have worked hard on improving.
@ZOE #question Would it be benefitial to our microbiome to eat our vegtibles more raw or to combine them raw and cooked? Does this make a difference, also like mushrooms the fungi that Prof. Spector addors... is it more benefitial to eat the healthy once raw? do those microbes have more joy at that or are they neutral about having them steamed or raw?
Do you have any research about the interplay between taste and gut health. Local farm shop food tastes better is it actually better for us? I am curious as to whether we were designed/ evolved to enjoy what's good for us.
Yes we are. But sadly that can be hijacked by ultra processed food. A fact actively exploited by certain manufacturers seeking a sweet-spot of cheap fats and sugar content in their processed foods And some microbes can actually influence your sense of what you want/need in BAD ways. Trying to reduce them in favour of other bugs is my own goal! The healthier your choices the more you can get into a virtuous cycle of seeking better foods. Reducing refined carbs and increasing your consumption of live foods really can help that.
Very exciting part of the Microbiome story. I hope AI will be able to play a part in working out all the interactions, it is far too complex for traditional studies to extract the data on our own
When I was young (went to school on a dinosaur) I was taught that humans couldn't digest fibre because, unlike bovines, we only had one stomach that couldn't cope. How times change
There is a machine available for GPSs surgeries that can analyse sputum for bacteria, but very few have them. Surely this is just one way forward to cut the overuse of antibiotics. It’s incredibly important that genuine, bacterial respiratory infections are nipped in the bud, particularly in people affected by COPD & other respiratory conditions, to distinguish a viral infection, from a viral infection. The overuse of antibiotics in the veterinary profession is well documented and enters the food chain. We also need to invest more in to developing new antibiotics. We haven’t done so in over 30 years. There are also other methods used in Russia and Eastern Europe, that we in the West just haven’t caught onto, because we became too self-reliant on the miracle of antibiotics.
Really enjoy all your content and have made changes to my diet because of this but please stop telling us to sign up when we can’t or at least give us an idea of when it might launch in the UK. Thank you.
@Jonathan @Tim @Will, Fascinating, but one thing that I've never heard covered is regarding blending, in a bullet, foods. If I blend hemp or olive oil in my smoothy, do they lose any beneficial properties? If I soak, and then blend, nuts and seeds and add them to drinks , is that OK? Many thanks. Ps Can't wait for Zoe study to be live in UK.
Fascinating. Will be joining and await a UK launch of the kit. Seems most strange that this can be available in the US but not the UK. No doubt there are reasons.
I am very excited for this to come to the UK too, thanks for the tips to get a more diverse microbiome. I hope to be able to reduce or even stop taking medications
This is so interesting, thank you. But how do microbes survive on the skin, in our mouths etc if they do not survive, as you say, in oxygen? Or is it just GUT microbes that don't like Oxygen?
Interesting video, but why the experiments on mice? You can’t assume what works in a mouse works on a human and the experiment will only have to be repeated in a human to show it works.
It seems to me that by and large your biome reflects the food you feed it with. And your health is more a function of food and less of a function of the biome. You need the biome you have to cope with the types of food you eat. If you eat more simply then you just have no use for a complex biome. This is why carnivores can thrives for decades in perfect health with a limited biome. If you get gut dysfucntion you are better of cutting food than adding it.
I think you're on to something here. Complex healthy eating patterns will produce good health and may produce a complex biome. But having a complex biome may not be the reason you're healthy. Similarly, excess cholesterol may not be the reason for bad health… It's a symptom.
@@TimGreigPhotography Yes Obesity is another indicator. But you can be fat and healthy. There has been a lot of work done either new studies or old ones that people have taken a closer look at. Over 60s with high LDL live longer than those with "normal" LDL, probably due to the role played by LDL in the immune system- sweeping up dead bacteria and directing it to the lymphatic system. Statins increase LDL receptor in the liver to take our healthy LDL leaving behind the glycated damaged LDL which causes atherosclerosis. Cholesterol is good stuff and has many important fucntions. There is a lot of contrary information out there.
I’m still waiting for the gastroenterologists on this programme to answer the question as to whether this diet beneficial to people who have IBD and may have chronic diarrhoea on a daily basis? People who may suffer from a high fibre diet because of Crohns. When I asked my own gastroenterologist, he didn’t know what the microbiome was. 🤷🏻♀️
Wouldn’t hurt folks to look into Betaine HCL and pre-biotics (not pro) especially over 40 with GERD, SIBO and other non helicobacter induced stomach issues.
I have to take a medication twice daily that has the effect of giving me acid heartburn. Otherwise I am working hard on improving my gut biome, do you have any advice ?
When will the program become available in the UK? I’ve been following the low FODMAP diet for 4 years (also vegetarian) due to dietary issues, but am concerned that I’m possibly restricting my gut microbiome :(
At school we were taught the appendix was a vestigial organ. Is there any possibility it might be linked to the microbiome, a refuge for bugs, or does the vestigial theory still hold?
I read a couple of years ago that it is far from "vestigial". In cases of dysentery etc it is a reservoir of gut bugs ready to re populate the whole gut after losing a lot with diarrheal illness..
Hi, a couple of questions How important/unimportant is cooking? To what extent do microbes survive cooking? You comment negatively on highly processed meats. What about highly processed vegetables, I have in mind things like vegan sausage rolls, much hyped in the media, but I find it hard to believe that industrially processed fungus is that good for you.
I've been a vegan over 40 years. You'll find that especially long time vegan choosers have known this a very long time. But we're always the wacky ones eh? ...
