Tim Spector

[Rosie2021]

Has anyone followed Tim Spector & Zoe

Very interesting topics on food, specifically microbiomes!

tim-spector.co.uk

[Marz]

He was involved in the British Gut Project some years ago - something I participated in ...

[Serendipitious]

Yes he's involved in some very interesting research on the microbiome which plays a huge part in our general and thyroid health. He's also been involved in a lot of research for covid.

[ClareP5]

Yes - I have been doing the Covid Symptoms Study - it’s worth looking at his info, cos Covid symptoms are changing especially if you’re vaccinated. His advice to improve your gut health and therefore your overall health is to eat 30 plant foods every week.

[Polaris]

This reminds me of an important 'lightbulb moment' for me a few years ago in the search for answers to my own gut problems/absorption and the cause of autoimmune disease, thyroid/B12deficiency in particular. Marc Ryan's excellent article on his Hashimoto's Facebook page. - An extract :

"Hashimoto's Health Tip: The Little Paint Brushes in Your Tummy"

"Anyone who has lived with Hashimoto's knows that this is so much more than a thyroid problem. The biggest axis of trouble is often found in the thyroid-brain-gut connection. And one common problem that causes this is leaky gut or intestinal permeability.

Many researchers believe that this is ground zero for autoimmune disease.

It is the place that autoimmune disease is born and the place that makes it get worse and worse. And when things get worse in the gut, problems in the thyroid and brain often follow. In this post, I wanted to shed light on some little known but very helpful enzymes called brush border enzymes.

The small intestines is the place where leaky gut often happens. And the walls of the small intestines are lined with tiny little hair like protrusions called microvilli. On a regular microscope they kind of look like a tiny, fuzzy paint brush. This fuzzy appearance is why they came up with the term "brush border" to describe them. This is the place where absorption happens.

And many people with Hashimoto's suffer from deficiencies of important vitamins and nutrients (like vitamin D, vitamin B12 and B6, zinc, selenium, magnesium, iron, etc.). One of the reasons for this is the breakdown of these brush borders. "