 Hi allan, Toma Tynllw i'n meddwl ar y dyfodol Asperg. A dyna, rwy'n gweithio'r ffordd yw'r ffordd o prebiotech ac probiotech. Rwy'n credu bod y prebiotech ac probiotech yw dwy o gweithio'r ffordd o'r cyfnod yn y cyfnod, os ydych chi'n gweithio yn y cyfnod y cyfnod, rwy'n gweithio'r gweithio mewn cyfnod i gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio. A dyna ydych chi'n gweithio'r bactyria Cyngoru Microbiota, yna thrym ni'n unwgr arall, arall y bateriau arall arlau. Felly, y prywodau a profiidau rhan o'r ynchynig gwybod a'r gweithredu bod lle a bydd hynny yn ysgrifennu i'r oedlu o'r llwyddoedd yn ein hwn. Gall wedi ei gwybod eich chylethau yng Nghyrch yn gweld eich cefnod, I filmed the content quite a while ago, but I'll put his name in the description and stuff. Fuck, I feel really bad now for not remembering. He's a really cool guy, he's doing his projects on these two pre-barthics and pro-barthics. He does a little introduction demonstration where he gave us samples of things that he brought in. Then after the presentation I asked him whether we could do a one-on-one interview where I asked him a few questions about his work that he's been doing and he asked me a few questions and we kind of converse a little bit. I think we had to shoot the whole interview twice, firstly because my iPad didn't record for a little bit because the storage was full up and so that was good preparation by my part and secondly because we wanted to make sure that he got all that he wanted to say and how he made sure that it didn't come out wrong or it didn't come across in a different way. You know how it is, you've got to shoot a few times just to make sure that the information is kind of fluent and flows. So before we get into the presentation and then the interview after I'm just going to give you a little bit of a lower down on some of the key terms that you need to know about pre-abotics and probiotics and then I'm going to just kick to a few where a few jugs. I am in the lab right now so this is why you can see a lab behind me, I don't know why I'm saying that. You can see, you can see it's different. As I said it was about six, seven months ago so you don't have any of this facial layer, you don't have this hair or anything so don't be surprised. So let's have a look on my trusty old laptop, make sure it's not in the shot there. So I'm just going to pull up some general information firstly. So firstly the English dictionary describes pre-abotics as a non-digestible food ingredient that promotes growth of beneficial microorganisms in the intestines. So probiotics are described as a microorganism introduced into the body for its beneficial qualities. Some of the more important and beneficial probiotic strains which are different species of bacteria be streptococcus, firmophilus, acyllus, lateral sphorus, there's many of these. I think I remember one of these in my personal probiotic intake. So the phidobacterium has got a few different ones of those but there are also strains that we want to avoid. The harmful bacteria are the bacteria that cause dysbiosis which means when they're the gut cell out of whack and all that. Metabolism has changed in the inflammation because it's generally not a good thing and there are links between inflammation and mental health. So I'm going to put the laptop down for a sec and I'll let you get on with the video because I don't want to spoil too much of the information. So yeah, I hope you enjoy this. This one, yes, orange, ginger, garlic. It's quite nice. It's not as strong as pink one. Pink one is strong. It's a different layer we added to it. It's steep, isn't it? Do you want to come through and just talk about it? It's not that nice watching your face through it. Like the way he's making it, isn't it? It's fun. I don't think that he's going through this as a diet. But yeah, there's no rush to get through anything. Yeah, just make sure that I'm clear and maybe less sciency. I've got Phil here today. He's a final year student studying biology, Spanish. So you've been to Spain, you've done a bit of research and you've decided that you wanted to do a media kind of base project. Yeah, I didn't like the love life. It wasn't really for me, so I'm much more interested in science communication. So Phil did a presentation earlier on today on prebiotics and probiotics and their implications on mental health. So he brought along quite a few samples of food and stuff for us to try, and he also gave us quite an in-depth kind of degree level presentation on and how it works and the mechanisms involved. So firstly, I'm Thomas from Aspergysgrove and I'm at the basis of my YouTube channels to improve people's awareness of autism. So that's to help people with autism to try and get tips and benefits and ways of coping with certain things that might have come across. So like social stuff to do with the media and also to do with like the health and stuff. I just want to ask firstly about the kind of motivation that you've had to do this topic because I realised that it's self-chosen. So you chose to do it yourself. Yes, to a degree, I guess. I'm very much interested in, you know, like yourself, mental health, psychology and neuroscience and stuff, and I kind of wanted to, I mean, I'm working on this project for a year, it's a long time, so I wanted to make it interesting for myself, so I wanted to incorporate as much of that stuff as possible into my project. The gut has been implicated in influencing brain function, like it's been shown to affect behaviour, cognition and mental health by a number of pathways that exist between the gut and the brain. So it seemed like a quite interesting area to get involved in. And it's really, really rapidly emerging as well, so it's the perfect opportunity for me to communicate this to an audience. So is there any reason that you were targeted mental health? There's quite a lot to do with the beast and gut health, as well as general health, physical health for health and cancer and stuff like that. Yeah, what's the reason that you're targeted to mental health? Well, personally, I've dealt with a lot of anxiety, so the interest is the purpose of self-development, partly, but I also think it's a very interesting subject in general, and something which is, you know, affecting more and more people. It's more and more people feeling more comfortable to work enough about certain mental health issues, and you realise the spectrum of how many people it can affect. There's a lot of people who are affected by mental health issues. Absolutely, and I mean, there's still that stigma there, isn't there? It needs to be taken more seriously. Helping people take action, improve their life, prove their condition, their state is, yeah, what I'm partly trying to do with this project, I guess, yeah. Before and after the presentation, we had to look at some of the food that you brought in, some of it Phil made himself, and some of it he bought from various food stores. So the first product that we've got here is a kombucha. Is there an origin to this kind of food, it's found in different parts of the world, it's a fermented tea product, so it consists of a kind of batch of beneficial bacteria in yeast, and this is mixed with the tea and bacteria from the tea, and they create this nice sour taste, and yeah, it's full of beneficial bacteria, full of probiotics, which have been implicated in physical as well as mental health. We've also got some other stuff, which is some more kind of stuff that you can bite into. There's got ginger and carrot, ginger and carrot here. I think this is the stuff that Phil made himself. Yeah, so this is all sauerkraut, this is fermented cabbage, and fermented cabbage is extremely boring, so I wanted to spice things up a little bit, so I used a number of ingredients to improve the appearance, make it look a bit more appetising, and improve the taste as well. They are very very tasty, I hope, so I'm going to be able to be true to the ginger and the garlic. Yeah, so I've got some ginger and carrot, that's all with the fermented cabbage. So is this cold sour sauerkraut? Yeah, it's very popular in Germany. Yeah, it's very sour. My taste buds are pretty selective, but I did find it quite nice. I mean, I was kind of expecting to have to sell it on the Saints rather than the taste, so I anticipate that. I made it as tasty as possible. So we've got this stuff here as well? It's called kefir yoghurt. Yeah, it's very much like yoghurt, like a drinkable yoghurt, and it actually contains kefir grains. You can buy kefir grains online, and these are symbionts of bacteria and yeast, beneficial bacteria and yeast, my little grains that you stick in there. Yeah, like the little cauliflower florets, and they ferment the lactose that's in the milk, and they produce wattyg acid, which gives you that sour taste. So again, they're full of wattyg acid bacteria, which are very beneficial for the good, inhibiting pathogens and keeping things healthy. So one thing that might be worth noting is that some people with autism or on the autism spectrum might have quite sensitive taste buds, so some of these foods might not be suitable for people to eat. So maybe they're trying to get you adolescent or children to eat this stuff. Maybe to improve their mental health might be quite difficult. But there are some other sources of probiotics that you can get. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, that's fair enough. You can get probiotics in capsule form as well as in your natural foods, and the benefits of the capsule-related foods are that they contain specific strains, which may have been shown to improve particular conditions. So it's good for if you're dealing with a health disorder condition in particular, you can research that area and find out which probiotic strains have the best potential for treating those conditions, and you can buy them in capsule form. You can sneak them into foods on detectable, and they can have their positive effects. There's one thing that I mentioned to you earlier about the chocolate biotic. Yeah, I haven't heard of that before actually. So yeah, basically they're little, little, sweety chocolate things, and they have these biotic cultures to do, to have improved and got health and stuff. I'm not sure whether it'll be as targeted towards mental health. I don't know whether the different strains are good for different things. Yes, that might be something to look into. Yeah, most regarding mental health, there are a number of communication pathways that exist between the gut and the brain, so it's generally for keeping the gut healthy can feed back on the brain. I know, for example, that there's an immune pathway on a healthy gut, very high in pathogenic bacteria as opposed to the beneficial probiotic bacteria that you find in fermented foods and the capsules, that causes inflammation within the gut, a lot of pathogenic bacteria causes inflammation within the gut, and inflammation is associated with a number of neurological conditions such as depression, anxiety, ADHD. Yeah, that's just one of the examples and through which improving the health of your gut can lower the levels of inflammation and help your mental health. Yeah, less inflammation is generally associated with better mental health, as well as physical health as well. So just as kind of a final question, can you give any advice on how maybe people with people in general can incorporate this stuff into their diet? Obviously, I'll leave some links about how Phil made his products and also maybe to the places that you can purchase these. So yeah, is there any advice that you can give about operating it? Well, I would say, you know, try the foods. To be fair, you know, fermented cabbage doesn't sound very appealing, but you can do a lot with it as I've been here. And kimchi is delicious. That's, you know, fermented cabbage with additional sauces, spices, vegetables. It's very popular in Korea, isn't it? Yeah, very popular in Korea. You can do a lot with sour carrots here to make it taste nice. So I would say experiment with some recipes. It's generally recommended to buy them from health food shops rather than supermarkets. Yeah, that's a good example. Regarding the foods, though, I mean, most supermarkets tend to pasteurize a lot of the food products, which kills off a lot of the beneficial bacteria. So you want to keep it as natural as possible. So I would say visit local health food shops, perhaps organic shops, and try up there, if not, order them online, have a go at making it yourself. And if you have the time, if you have the time. If you have the time, yeah. And if you don't mind your house stinking for the couple of days. But I think it's worth it, yeah. But I've tried some of them, and I definitely, I pretty like them. They were okay. Like I could have them on the side of some foods. Yeah, I mean, you wouldn't side them on a daily basis, but it's chomping down. Every now and again, every now and again, a couple of spoonfuls of cell crout, a bit of yogi, you know, big loss of kombucha. Yeah, it could go a long way. So it talks a bit about how probiotics and prebiotics can help? Yeah, it's not mentioned prebiotics. So probiotics are beneficial microorganisms that you're consuming by implementing foods. Prebiotics are the indigestible sources of fiber. The pastoral, the stomach, without being broken down by the stomach acid, they pass through the gastrointestinal tract and they serve as a substrate for the beneficial bacteria, the probiotic bacteria to your ferment. And this ensures that they proliferate. You know, you're feeding the good bacteria essentially, and you're ensuring that they can proliferate and they can become permanent residents on the intestinal wall and continue to, you know, mediate positive effects for as long as possible. So that would one of the benefits would be to have this stuff, because you're getting some of the fiber from the cabbage as well. Yeah, I mean, absolutely, you can mix both. So for example, I've used a lot of garlic in my probiotic recipes, which are very rich in prebiotics or the sources of prebiotics. You know, quite commonly apples, bananas, onions, garlic as we've said, oats are very rich in fiber, adjustable fiber. So any of this kind of stuff, but it would also help with other aspects of diet. So maybe if your child's struggling to kind of get the amount of vitamins that they need in their diet, maybe they might be able to help with that. Absolutely, yeah, I mean, probiotic bacteria, they essentially pre-digest a lot of foods that you're eating, you know, so they enhance the nutrient acquisition, but consuming these foods, they're partly digested, you know, so you're getting more nutrients, more vitamins, more minerals and stuff. So yeah, it's very, very beneficial. Thank you very much for doing this interview. Very welcome. If you're wanting to get some more videos like this, where I talk to people from different kind of fields of research to do with helping with mental health, then give the video a thumbs up, subscribe and tap the bell in the corner if you want to see some notifications from later videos that I'll be uploading. So I've got some links in the description about the products that you can buy, and maybe some links to the instructions to make them. Anyway, thank you very much. You're very welcome. And hopefully I'll be able to talk to you later about the kind of research that you'd be doing. But yeah, if you're interested, I'd be here. I'd appreciate it.