Name: The Science of Eating Well
Price: 59.25 GBP
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Course overview

Transform your health with one of the world’s leading nutrition experts and one of the top 100 most cited scientists globally.

Join Professor Tim Spector as he reveals the science behind eating well and building a healthier relationship with food. You’ll learn what, when, and how to eat to boost energy, support your gut health, and feel your best every day.

Through practical insights and hands-on activities, you’ll explore how the gut microbiome works, understand your metabolism, and debunk common food myths. Tim will help you identify ultra-processed foods and even guide you through the basics of fermenting your own — empowering you to create lasting, healthy habits from the inside out.

This course includes:

4 hours of expert-led video content
20 lessons on nutrition, gut health, and practical eating habits
28 exercises to help you apply the science to your daily life

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What you'll learn

Join Tim as he unpacks the key principles of gut health and nutrition, showing you how small changes in what and how you eat can make a big difference to your energy and wellbeing.

You’ll explore how your gut microbiome and metabolism work, learn to spot ultra-processed foods, and even try simple fermentation at home — all to help you build healthier habits that last.

Introduction

Learn about Tim's background and experience, as well as what the course will teach you.

The Gut Microbiome

In this lesson, Tim gives you a comprehensive understanding of the gut microbiome.

Identically Different

Referencing research carried out in a study of twins, this lesson outlines the role of the gut microbiome and its connection to genetics.

Diet Myths

In this lesson, Tim outlines common misconceptions around diet and how you can adapt your nutrition in healthier ways.

Weight Loss

Tim shares sustainable approaches to weight-loss, such as incorporating the right food for you and your gut microbiome into your diet.

Our Food Environment

Tim reveals the negative impact that advertising and misinformation have on our idea of what is healthy and what we decide to consume.

Digestion

Using the example of a beef burger to illustrate food's nutritional value and effects, Tim shows you how you can find alternatives to support your gut microbiome.

Ultra Processed Food

A candid exploration of what ultra processed foods are, and their negative ramifications on your long-term health.

Microbiome Makeover – 30 Plants a Week

In this lesson, Tim teaches you solutions that sustain a healthy gut microbiome.

Food Culture

Tim explains how different cultures around eating impact our health, both physically and mentally.

Food Myths

Outlining misinformation around certain foods in terms of their nutritional attributes, Tim debunks the common food myths we've been fed for too long.

Food Matrix

Using an apple as an example, Tim demonstrates the differing impact food preparation has on our bodies, even when using the same ingredients.

The Gut Microbiome + Mental Health

Tim reveals the often overlooked correlation between the health of our gut microbiome and our mental health.

Metabolism

This lesson outlines the complexity of our metabolism, and ways you can establish the right balance of "supply and demand" your body requires.

Fermenting

Tim teaches us about the practice of food fermentation and why it plays a crucial role in supporting a healthy gut microbiome.

Time Restricted Eating

Tim lays out the health benefits of fasting, or implementing "eating windows" on our gut microbiome.

Healthy Ageing

Tim discusses healthy ageing, what it means and how you can achieve it; from aiming to live as disease-free as possible, to a longer lifespan.

Personalised Nutrition

Taking into consideration our unique responses to everything we consume, Tim outlines how we can shape our diet to suit our individual health outcomes.

What Tim Eats

Discussing examples of what he tends to personally eat in a day, Tim breaks down the resulting health benefits of his choices.

Next Steps

Tim concludes the course, giving you guidelines for how to put everything you've learned into practice, and start improving your health in both the short and long-term.

Everything you get with Peer-Level learning

✓ Start your course anytime — learn at your own pace

✓ Join an interactive online classroom of up to 20 learners

✓ Access lessons packed with expert videos and notes

✓ Reinforce your knowledge with practical assignments

✓ Connect through group chats or direct messages with other learners

✓ Enjoy 12-month access to all videos, notes, and your classroom

meet the expert

Professor Tim Spector

One of the world’s leading voices in nutrition and gut health.

Why choose Learning with Experts?

Start whenever it suits you, and immerse yourself in motivational lesson tutorials with expert guidance.

Enhance your learning and personal growth with lesson assignments. Each course includes an optional assignment at the end of every lesson.

Stay informed about your own progress and those of your peers, and take joy in celebrating achievements along the way.

Chat and share ideas with passionate communities of learners from around the world.

Frequently asked questions

What’s the difference between PEER and EXPERT options?

At Peer and Expert level, you get access to the same core content and features:

Video lesson tutorials led by your expert tutor
Downloadable lesson notes
Option to practise what you learn with lesson assignments
Group learning within an online interactive classroom of up to 20 classmates
Lifetime access to videos, notes and classroom

If you choose Expert level, you get all of the above plus the following:

Personalised assignment feedback and coaching from your expert tutor
Opportunity to interact with your expert tutor through a private messaging system
Certificate of completion.

What is an online classroom?

Our online classroom has been developed to allow you to learn from our experts in a sociable environment alongside up to 20 other students. After each video tutorial led by your expert, you will be encouraged to practice what you have learned with optional assignments - these can be seen by the other students in your class, who are free to share their own thoughts and questions with you.

You will be encouraged to take part in an ongoing class discussion where you can discuss ideas, post images or work, and comment on each other’s assignments. It’s a great way to learn from other like-minded people who share your passion from all over the world.

This means not only do you benefit from people who are outstanding in their field, but also from a close-knit group of like-minded people whom you can learn alongside. Group learning has shown to greatly improve not just the experience of studying, but also how well you retain the knowledge, and we have built our classroom experience around this fact.

When can I start my course and how long will it take?

You can start your course any time within 12 months after receipt of your purchase confirmation email. Once you start, you’ll have lifetime access — meaning you can revisit the lesson videos and notes whenever you want.

Our courses are designed so that you can study at your own pace, some prefer to binge learn while others like to spread their studying over a longer period of time - it’s completely up to you. To give you a rough time frame, each lesson video is approximately 30-40 minutes long, and we recommend that you spend around an hour on each assignment.

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The Science of Eating Well