Tim Spector

Tim Spector OBE Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London lead scientist on the Zoe Covid Symptom Study app and author of Spoon Fed: why almost everything we’ve been told about food is wrong (Vintage 2020).

Tuesday

Tim Spector

With Tim Spector

27 min listen

Tim Spector is a leading professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London and a renowned expert in nutrition, gut health, and the microbiome. He is the founder of the Zoe Project, which focuses on personalised nutrition and how individual responses to food impact health. His new book, The Food for Life Cookbook, is out now. On the podcast, he tells Lara about his time growing up in Australia, how a skiing accident changed his view on nutrition, and why ham-flavoured crisps are his guilty pleasure. Produced by Oscar Edmondson and Joe Bedell-Brill. Click here for tickets to our Americano live event, with Nigel Farage.

Sunday

Tim Spector

The second wave appears to have peaked before lockdown

It was only four weeks ago that Boris Johnson plunged Britain into a second lockdown. The Prime Minister, flanked by Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance, said that he could not ignore the modelling. Deaths, the Prime Minister explained, could reach ‘several thousand a day’, with a ‘peak of mortality’ worse than April. ‘Doctors and nurses would be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would get oxygen and who wouldn't, who would live and who would die,’ he warned. Today, however, with the country about to enter a new, tougher tiered system, the latest figures raise serious questions over those claims – and consequently, the need for a second lockdown.