Is your gut microbiome preventing weight loss? | Dr. Suzanne Devkota and Prof. Tim Spector

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Belly fat is more than just stubborn weight – it plays a complex role in our health, interacting with the immune system and gut bacteria. But could microbes hold the key to understanding and managing belly fat?

In this episode, Dr. Suzanne Devkota, Director of the Microbiome Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai, shares groundbreaking findings on how gut bacteria interact with belly fat. Tim Spector - professor of epidemiology and scientific co-founder at ZOE, also joins to explain how the diversity of your gut bacteria affects weight, gut health and overall health.

Together, they share surprising ways our microbiome influences fat storage and share practical tips for supporting gut health. You’ll learn how small tweaks to eating habits can have a big impact on gut health, and even on belly fat.

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Timecoes
00:00 Where your body stores internal fat
01:45 Quickfire questions
03:12 What is belly fat?
04:30 How dangerous is internal fat?
05:44 How your body uses belly fat
16:20 New study on gut bacteria
21:05 Why this bacteria lives in your fat tissue
24:50 Gut health and your immune system
31:58 Why microbes are essential to survive
38:30 Gut health starts at birth - tips for newborns
46:40 The importance of sampling your gut microbes
50:50 Two changes you can make right now
53:02 Easy fermented eating tips
55:10 Why not all pickles are fermented

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Mentioned in today's episode
Translocation of Viable Gut Microbiota to Mesenteric Adipose Drives Formation of Creeping Fat in Humans (2020), published in Cell https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0...

Our extended microbiome: The human-relevant metabolites and biology of fermented foods (2024), published in Cell Metabolism https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Effects of a personalized nutrition program on cardiometabolic health: a randomized controlled trial (2024), published in Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...

Heritable components of the human fecal microbiome are associated with visceral fat (2016) published in Genome Biology https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.c...

Dissecting the role of the gut microbiota and diet on visceral fat mass accumulation (2019), published in Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...

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