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  1. This is the diet I have, more or less, followed for the last four decades. I trained as an osteopath in the UK in the early-mid 1970s, but my great love - personally & professionally - was always nutrition. After reading Yudkin's book, "Pure White and Deadly," in my early clinical days, I was drawn away from the Ansel Keys theory relating to the evils of saturated fat, towards a low (or non) refined carb., whole food diet. As an osteopath I was also aware of the importance of gut health, and how life choices profoundly impact it. I'm now a 70 y o, have a BMI under 25, near perfect health, take no medication, walk kilometers every day and workout with resistance training 2 - 3 times a week. The tragedy is I live in a retirement complex surrounded by folk of a similar age, the great majority of whom are over weight, over medicated, overfed (in terms of carbs & empty calories), underfed (in terms of sound nutrition), underactive and in poor overall health. People ask me what my secret is. I tell them, but few listen! I heartily commend your recommendations, Tim. It is deeply gratifying to see more and more top health professionals embracing these things! Thank you. David (NZ).
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  2. I never drink alcohol and never smoked in my entire life! Never took drugs.... and always nourished myself with a Mediterranean diet! .... My parents were born in Italy and they always cultivated a vegetable garden as long as I can remember.... My mom was an excellent cook - as a result all of her children were beautiful and healthy! My mom prepared the most delicious platters of food.... Zuccinni, eggplant... broccoli, cabbage, ... Chicken consommé freshly made with 7 vegetables.... and served with egg noodles that she prepared .... and I have continued in her foot steps! Thank God I am still going strong and of course walking every day....I am a mature lady!❤🥊
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  3. Wonderful news on the OBE, we so need more recognishion of doctors and scientists. Seriously well deserved.
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  4. I am a state registered dietitian and with your influence, I changed radically the advice I now give to my patients and the way I eat my self. All these processed snacks we felt we had to eat every couple of hours!!! I now returned to the Mediterranean diet I was brought up and changed following my university degree! Lots of beans, yoghurt, fruit, vegetables, coffee and olive oil as well ad no snacks in-between meals. Feels great! Thank you for being so inspiring and not a typical stuffy professor 😉
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  5. Well done for the OBE - about time someone got who has actually done something for the country was recognised instead of the usual muppets.
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  6. I'm only 11 minutes into this video, and I am in tears about the lack of knowledge and the lack of caring by our medical professionals. I know this first hand. Women make up 50% of the population but are treated like we don't matter or matter as much. 😢
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  7. Throughout the pandemic ZOE has been my go to for the most accurate up to date information and a way to avoid a lot of the fear mongering and clickbait headlines, and deliberately out of date symptoms information. I would often try to encourage my family to use the app and follow your updates. I have ASD and had only come off depression medication 6 months before the first lockdown. I'll never forget the sheer terror I felt and how low I became in the first couple of months, the COVID Symptom Study was literally my lifeline in the first lockdown and ever since has remained my go to source for trustworthy information. The prevalence maps provided a source of reassurance as well as caution. I will continue to submit my symptoms and have signed up to take part in several of your studies for my family has a history of diabetes, arthritis, dementia and MS so knowing how to reduce the chance of myself or my loved ones developing these conditions or finding out how those who already have them could manage them or slow their progress is important to me. If my small addition goes towards helping many others then all the better 😊
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  8. Excellent data as always, thank you Tim and team
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  9. Since becoming aware of your work, I've adopted a daily kefir habit and have started making my own kimchi. I've also been adding lots of colourful veg into my diet - if it's purple, I'll buy it. I call it "spectral" food.
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  10. I firmly believe this…while rollerblading one evening, an unknowing brain aneurysm ruptured…as I lay in the hospital bed looking out the window, I was just visualizing blading on Saturday, visualizing in my mind the moves, the music…two months later I was back jogging, nine months later I was back rollerblading! The brain definitely can regenerate!
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  11. No sore throat symptoms, I'm afraid, but wanted to say how very appreciative I am of these updates. You have been a beacon of reassuring good sense throughout this, Tim, and I can't say how grateful I am to you and your team.
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  12. Hardly surprising considering they point blank refused to acknowledge your symptoms lists for the whole 2 years. Good luck to you all, I've found your app and the data you provide fantastic and invaluable in how we adjusted our lives to get through this mess.
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  13. Great video Tim, I would love more of these, it would make a great TV series.
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  14. Tim, just want to say that I'm incredibly thankful for how you've listened to your viewers and made dramatic improvements with the addition video-in-video when looking at slides. It's now looking well-polished and exceeds the government's own briefings in professionalism. A small change but makes a huge difference for me!
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  15. Sad to hear that thee UK Government are stopping your funding and it only adds to the list of health decision errors they have made during this pandemic.I will stay and as others have already said, I would be happy to make a contribution to move this ground breaking research ahead. There are only a few places the public can go for honest, up to date information and we need to keep them available for the future.
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  16. Great to see you’ve been given an OBE. Makes a nice change to see someone who actually deserves it.
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  17. Dr John and Zoe are the only people that make sense in this pandemic
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  18. Thank you as always Tim, world class data
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  19. The government is short term but Zoe is for now and the future, please keep up your work as we need it more than ever. Yours and a few others give us reality. Good luck with the funding.
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  20. Thank you so much! I only just heard you on an interview the other day....and a few things you said have changed my life already. i'm a non fat, diet food products eater and yet i'm the heaviest i've ever been at this present time. Went to the store...bought all diff vegetables AND.....FULL FAT yogurt and cottage cheese! I'm already proud of me....and i'm so thankful for finding you! I"ve had a brain injury for five and a half years and before that horrific troubles with my stomach that noone seemed to be able to figure out.....i've learned of the important communication between the gut and the brain since being injured and i am determined to get my gut healthy to help my brain in it's very slow healing process. So....sorry i'm long winded.....but THANK YOU!!!!
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  21. Congratulations on the OBE, Tim. Well deserved!
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  22. Looking forward to your analysis
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  23. I’m 70 and have had copd over 20 years and been on oxygen and what keeps me alive is excercise which I didn’t start until a few years ago.It makes me breathe better and I’m still learning about diet.This man is the real deal!
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  24. I've just had a negative pcr result having had the heaviest cold and cough in years. Because of the zoe app I was confident about getting the test and ensuring that I wasn't unwittingly spreading covid. I rely upon this forum for reliable information when there is so much media hype and confused information. Big thanks to Tim and his team. It is also a fascinating subject area - I've learnt a lot!
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  25. Oh - you look so smart Tim, and I see congrats are in order :-) Totally deserved OBE. Delighted for you. Thank you for your work on Covid and Zoe & hopes for future with the gut stuff.
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  26. Glad it’s been mostly mild with you Tim. Get better soon.
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  27. Such a useful summary of the situation. I was grateful to hear 1 in 2 people with cold like symptoms are likely to test positive for Omicron. I have just developed cold like symptoms and am awaiting the results of a PCR test. Meanwhile all my family are gathering for Xmas while I am sitting alone. Yes I am feeling a bit sorry for myself but you have confirmed I am doing the right thing. Thanks for your brilliant weekly updates. They have been so helpful.
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  28. Dr Li is an absolute National Treasure! All doctors should have.His positivity, kindness and expertise. He understands the "system", not just one aspect of it. He gets the totality of the human body and how they interconnect, from the tip of the toes to the top of the head. Dr Li is the future of medicine! To sum up Dr Li's healthful living: eat a plant based diet & MOVE your body!
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  29. Unbuttoning the collar=Genius. More cameo appearances please from the team! Great info.
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  30. This channel and Dr. John Campbell's have kept me calm and sane over the last couple of years, the news would have done the exact opposite with how chaotic and sometimes sensationalist reports are.
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  31. Thanks Tim. I've been following you and John Campbell for some time now with interest albeit I'm based in the Middle East. I tested positive this week (I'm 3x vaccs) and my symptoms are precisely those shown on your Top 20 Tracker. Fatigue is the overwhelming ever present at the moment plus occasional runny nose and headache. Interestingly our local covid app, where we have to register symptoms daily whilst in 7 days mandatory isolation, does not offer up these most common symptoms, so it's not just the UK authorities! Outside of mandated isolation periods like here you are so right about taking personal responsibility. I felt fine this morning (Day 4) so did a rapid test out of interest and got an immediate Positive result. Waiting until I'm clear and being sure of that ( 7 days or beyond) is only sensible and thoughtful towards others.
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  32. I went to the doctors concerned about inflammation 5 years ago. They were no help at all, even though I could have been on the path to diabetes. It's thanks to people like these guys that I figured it out and changed my health trajectory.
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  33. Thank you, Tim and team for another year of reasoned reporting. It's comforting to hear from you, even when it's not such good news. I ignore the media hype and wait for your posts to find out what's really happening. Wishing you all a safe, healthy and happy Christmas xx
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  34. Excellent weekly review as always, thank you very much Tim and Zoe
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  35. Thank you so much for everything you and the Zoe team are doing. The covid study and ongoing health data collection is an amazing tool and I am so disappointed that the Government are turning their backs on your valuable contribution and hard work and basically leaving us out to dry. Well done Professor Tim and everyone at Zoe.
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  36. One of the few real analysts that worth listening to and get a peace of mind. Thank you.
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  37. Thank you for inviting Dr Li back! He is one doctor I really feel trust for. He sticks to what's currently known on a topic and presents it in a way to make it easily digestible. I always love your summaries at the end Jonathan. Thank you!
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  38. What a terrible decision to remove funding. Considering how any government work, whatever party, there is rarely any forward thinking, just as and when something happens reaction. I hope you all can continue your very valuable work. I know you will do all in your power to do so. Thank you all at Zoe for what you have done.
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  39. Great presentation Claire, clear and precise, I really wish the Government would update symptoms it’s so frustrating, I keep telling family and friends, what they are .
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  40. Dear Tim, after following your very informative, albeit somber, Covid ZOE videos for many months , it's nice to see you share a far lighter, happier, subject with a smile on your face. Best wishes from Canada, hopefully you will bring your program here as well!
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  41. What a travesty! How short sighted of the government yet again. Zoe has been my lifeline throughout the last two years. Always calming and so helpful. Boosting me and helping to level facts up against all the ‘fearmongering’ in the media. I shall be supporting Zoe in any way I can. Thank you so much for all you are doing, Zoe MUST carry on, it’s the way forward!
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  42. Have a good Christmas to all the Zoe team. Thank you Tim for your leavel headed approach whilst giving out information
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  43. I miss Tim, of course ( and the tan 😉), but yes it’s great to see some of the other guys and girls do a ‘turn’. Thank you everyone at team Zoe 💙☮️, I had to resist the urge to wave back 🤣. Interesting / a bit concerning is the climbing rate in Israel but that could be because it was all Pfizer vaccine ( I think) and they double dosed in 3 weeks ( which I understand was the original advise for vaccine period from Pfizer). Take care everyone ☮️ 👋
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  44. Excellent interview. I am not convinced about a plant based diet, but go out of my way to get plenty of flavonoids and fiber. At 80 years I need more protein and iron. I walk 3-10 miles a day most days, and work out at least 3 days a week. I am still doing successful work as a senior analyst and sail a small boat whenever I can. Major issues are worries about balance, and increasing difficulty with short term memory. Your interviews are very helpful.
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  45. I'm so frustrated with this government for neglecting our health during the pandemic and now denying us the chance to improve things for the future. Keep up the good work everyone at Zoe - you are very much appreciated!
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  46. Glad you look and are feeling better professor Spector... You are a bright light amidst the darkness of non critical thought or scientific reason. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for keeping us sane. 😊
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  47. “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” - John Maynard Keynes quote. Totally agree with this economist quote and I am pleased to see you update your analysis based on new data. We just need to teach this quote to Governments..
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  48. Totally reckless behaviour by this government. No surprise there. Hope you're able to continue as this research is invaluable.
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  49. Dr. Li - You are such a gift! Every time I see you online I tune in, and my mood brightens. 😉 I always learn something, as your positive attitude leaves me feeling hopeful. But even more important (for me) is saying THANK YOU . . . for the many ways you share what you know and teach us what you're learning. See you in Cambridge one of these days.
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  50. Dear Tim and the team. Without any doubt whatsoever, your contribution to keeping the general public informed about this terrible disease has been second to none. So clear and precise on a daily basis has helped ourselves stay safe and in formed. May I wish you all the very, very best for 2022 and May you keep up the brilliant work you constantly strive for.
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