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Studies showed that if you are flossing,

you can reduce your risk of dementia by

nearly half, which is quite impressive.

So I started to research the [music]

brain much more and it made me realize

this link with the brain and the gut is

absolutely crucial and how that

influences [music] many things in our

brain. For example, things like

depression, mood changes, fatigue and

energy. But for 40 years, we've been

going down the wrong path. We've [music]

got so distracted by treating the brain

as something so different to the rest of

the body. So, what do we do about it if

we want to have optimally healthy

brains? So, Professor Tim Spectre is

[music] one of the top 100 most cited

scientists worldwide, and he's back to

reveal the [music] critical role our gut

plays with our physical and mental

health,

>> our cognition, and the prevention of

chronic disease.

>> We can dramatically improve our lives

and our health just by making the right

[music] food choices. And I've got eight

rules for gut health which work for all

health. So, first thing, pivot your

protein. Then there's quality, not

[music] calories. The whole idea of

assessing food by calories is wrong.

Calorie restricted diets have been shown

for the vast [music] majority of people

not to work. Your hunger signals go up.

And hunger is the main driver of

obesity. And we'll get into the other

rules.

>> And what about coffee?

>> So drinking between two and five cups of

coffee reduces your risk of heart

disease by about 25%.

>> And then what do you think of almonds?

>> So there's lots of studies showing that

they're good for your cognition and

mood. And what about your views [music]

on GLP1s like Zen?

>> I think from a public health

perspective, they're going to transform

medicine [music] and we ought to be

taking it much more seriously. But I've

got two real worries about them. [music]

My first worry is that

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>> [music]

>> Professor Tim Spectre.

Who is um who's this lovely lady and how

does she tie into the work you're

focused on right now?

>> That's my lovely mom, June, who is still

with us, age 93. Wow. but for the last

seven years has been in a in a home in

London after suffering a stroke and uh

then developing dementia

and so um yeah that's um changed

some of my views on life and uh she was

really pro- uh euthanasia and signed

every paper possible that if this ever

happened to her you know she would be

able to end her life but Unfortunately,

that didn't come true and under UK law,

it's not possible to to help her in that

because she lost capability and mobility

very early. So, she's still there, but

she doesn't no longer recognizes me. And

um it's it's a reminder of you know our

potential

future life and uh how so many so many

people in the are going to end up with

dementia that wasn't the case 50 years

ago.

>> [snorts]

>> If I can do something to reverse this

epidemic of dementia, then that's really

motivating for me and in a way one

reason why I've started to research the

brain much more than I I've done in the

past.

>> So, is dementia

increasing or is it that we know of it

more now? So, we're better at diagnosing

it.

>> It's increasing for a number of reasons.

So some of it is the age demographic. So

we're living longer,

>> but we're not living healthier. So our

health span hasn't really increased, but

our lifespan has. We're good at keeping

elderly people alive longer. That's

definitely true, but there's also stats

to show that it is increasing even when

you take that into account. So that more

people are developing uh dementia than

ever before, even when you account for

the demographics. and those other

changes. So, it is a major worry and I

think it's one of the the major fears

that all of us have. You know, obviously

you've got cancer is one fear, but I

think the other really bad one is ending

up with dementia because nearly everyone

knows somebody with dementia.

>> Did this inspire you to go get your own

brain scanned?

>> Yes, I'd had, as you know, problems with

my brain before. I'd had a mini stroke

back in 2011

and

never really worked out the causes of

that. I knew I had some white spots in

my brain. I wanted to see if they were

still there, if there were any signs of

that. And at the same time, I wanted to

get a checkup to see was I likely to end

up like my mother or not. And did I have

the genetic form of the disease? Was it

a straightforward Alzheimer's or was it

more the vascular type that my mother

had or probably has?

And so yeah, partly it was motivated out

of my cur my medical curiosity and

partly for self-interest.

>> And what did you find? I went to this

specialized clinic in London that does

these dementia screens, so I know if I

had the risk genes for Alzheimer's,

which luckily I don't. Um, but I do have

bad genes for diabetes and heart

disease, which predispose you to the

vascular side of things.

>> What's vascular dementia?

>> There's several types of dementia, but

the two main ones are Alzheimer's, where

you get these protein folds in the

brain. you get local inflammation, these

protein tangles, and that then causes

these damage to the bits of the brain.

That's a very specific type of dementia.

Then you get more generalized dementia,

which is usually called vascular

dementia, where you're just getting

clogging up of the arteries supplying

the brain just like you do in the heart.

And that knocks off other bits of the

brain

uh in a slightly more random way than

happens uh with Alzheimer's. Slightly

less predictable, but [gasps] that

accounts for about a third of all

dementia is this vascular time. I'm

predisposed to it because after my this

weird episode in 2011, my blood pressure

went up. So anyone with high blood

pressure generally has slightly stiffer

arteries than most people and that

impacts the arteries in your brain. So,

you are slightly more at risk. And with