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! (Encore episode) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
You might have heard some buzz lately that maybe you need to be eating food thats different from what your spouse or your friends or even your siblings should be eating.
You need a different diet to be healthy.
This idea is called personalized nutrition.
Its a growing trend and already a super lucrative industry.
But whats the science behind it?
Nikki and I took part in one of the very first human trials of personalized nutrition a few years ago, and thanks to our friends at American Express, were able to share that experience with.
You all once again, enjoy this encore presentation.
We'll be back in a week with another brand new episode for your listening delight.
54321 Enjoy.
Wow.
Enjoy was a little bit of an exaggeration.
They're even bluer inside.
Like look at that color.
It's not found in nature.
I'm gonna say, okay, it's oily and sweet as my response, it's left a.
Little blue oil slick on the plate.
Charming.
Yes, we ate muffins the color of a smurf just for you, dear listeners and for science.
It wasn't a muffin, it wasn't a meal.
It was a metabolic challenge.