HeyJaredGut Feelings with Professor Tim Spector
My own views on improving health - now part of the ZOE membership. Find out more at www.zoe.com
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Cancer screening: is it really as simple as it sounds? (opens the original)
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This is my personal take on the evidence, not medical advice.Recent debates in the UK have pushed back against the comfortable assumption that screening the whole population for cancer is always a good idea. As an epidemiologist, this is a question I have wrestled with for the best part of 40 years, because the maths are not as simple as most people believe.A good screening programme, in theory, is something like a blood test that picks up cancers early, before they have spread, so they can be t
Should adults drink milk? (opens the original)
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A recent Instagram post I wrote about milk stirred up far more debate than I expected. One health influencer replied that he usually agrees with me, but that this time I was completely wrong, because a recent review had concluded that drinking milk reduces overall mortality. I had said that for most people I don’t think the evidence justifies drinking milk for health benefits.This black and white way of arguing highlights a common problem in nutrition. Almost any position can be propped up by ch
The 10 health checks everyone over 60 should get (opens the original)
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This is my personal take on staying healthy in later life, not medical advice. Talk to your doctor before acting on any of it.Reaching 60 sharply increases your risk of many chronic conditions and age-related diseases. And it’s getting worse: recent UK figures show we now become unhealthy at a median age of around 60.7, meaning half the population already has some serious disease by then, and most of the rest aren’t far behind. Astonishingl
Why I sleep with tape on my mouth (opens the original)
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This is my personal take on the science of breathing. It isn’t medical advice, if you have asthma, don’t change how you manage it without talking to your doctor.This week I read an article by a journalist who’d had asthma all his life and stumbled on James Nestor’s book Breath, which makes the case for nasal breathing as a way to improve symptoms. He said his asthma was very much better after doing it for a while, and asked why something so simple isn’t taught on the NHS to the million
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