Is your gut microbiome preventing weight loss? | Dr. Suzanne Devkota and Prof. Tim Spector
from ZOE Science & Nutrition
by ZOE
Published: Thu Jan 09 2025
Show Notes
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 gut 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 the conversation to explain how the diversity of your gut bacteria affects weight and overall health.
Together, our guests share surprising ways the microbiome influences fat storage and offer practical tips for supporting gut health.
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Timecodes
The risks of internal fat
Quickfire questions
What is belly fat?
How dangerous is internal fat?
How our body uses belly fat
Groundbreaking study on gut bacteria
These gut bacteria live in your fat tissue
Gut health and your immune system
Why microbes are essential to survive
Why gut health starts at birth
The importance of sampling your gut microbes
Two changes you can make right now
Easy fermented eating tips
Why not all pickles are fermented
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Mentioned in today's episode
Translocationof Viable Gut Microbiota to Mesenteric Adipose Drives Formation of Creeping Fat in Humans (2020),published in Cell
Ourextended microbiome: The human-relevant metabolites and biology of fermented foods (2024),published in Cell Metabolism
Effectsof a personalized nutrition program on cardiometabolic health: a randomized controlled trial (2024),published in Nature
Heritablecomponents of the human fecal microbiome are associated with visceral fat (2016)published in Genome Biology
Dissectingthe role of the gut microbiota and diet on visceral fat mass accumulation (2019),published in Scientific Reports
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Episode transcripts are available here.