Eat This, Not That: The Surprising Science of Personalized Nutrition

This episode, we’ve got the exclusive on the preliminary results of
the world’s largest personalized nutrition experiment. Genetic
epidemiologist Tim Spector launched the study, called PREDICT, to
answer a simple but important question: do we each respond to
different foods differently? And, if so, why? How much of that
difference is genetic, how much is due to gut microbes, and how
much is due to any one of the dozens of other factors that
scientists think affect our metabolic processes? You’ve heard of
personalized medicine, will there be such a thing as personalized
diets? And should there be? Can teasing out the nuances of how each
individual body processes different foods make us all healthier? To
find out, we signed ourselves up as study participants, sticking
pins in our fingers, weighing our food, and providing fecal
samples, all for science—and for you, dear listeners. Listen in now
as we take part in this ground-breaking study, discover our own
differences, and find out the early results! Learn more about your
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