The Mindbodygreen Podcast

"You can change your gut microbiome within about a week just by altering your diet," says Tim Spector, M.D. Tim, an epidemiologist, gut microbiome expert, and award-winning scientist and author, joins us to discuss his top science-backed nutrition tips, what to avoid for optimal gut health, plus: - What we know about the microbiome today (~00:01) - How to eat for an optimal gut microbiome (~01:11) - Why there’s no such thing as superfoods (~05:58) - Tim’s POV on yogurt (~08:07) - How a carnivore diet impacts your microbiome (~10:39) - Why low-fat foods are worse for your gut (~15:06) - How to assess the health of your microbiome (~17:43) - How often should you poop? (~19:43) - The link between gut microbiome & healthy weight (~21:27) - The future of an Ozempic-like probiotic (~24:51) - The most surprising study Tim has worked on (~26:29) - What Tim eats in a day for gut health (~29:58) - How meal timing impacts your gut microbiome (~32:32) - How microbiomes beyond the gut influence health (~36:35) - Where gut