Summary
The team test the theory that you can use the weather to predict pain, separating science fact from fiction. It's an area with a huge amount of conflicting research, but one man who has investigated this is Professor Will Dixon, who explains that low pressure could be causing people's joints to ache more. Dara and Hannah are intrigued to hear our genes may also be responding to changes in temperature and hear how we might be pre-programmed to produce more inflammation during wintertime to fight off bugs - which has the unfortunate side effect of making other some conditions worse. But don't despair! The pair find out 21 degrees is the optimum temperature for health and wellbeing - a perfect English summer day.
Contributors:
Dr Chris Wallace Professor Will Dixon Professor Trevor Professor Trevor Harley
Producer: Marijke Peters Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem
A BBC Studios Audio Production
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Russell Kane here. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm back for another season of character assassinating the nice guy |
| 0:06.4 | and binging up the baddies in evil genius. |
| 0:09.2 | Yep, even the biggest legends have their skeletons. |
| 0:12.0 | So join me and a panel of brilliant comedians |
| 0:14.4 | to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history |
| 0:16.9 | are more evil or more genius. |
| 0:19.0 | I just think every celebrity, said with respect, Russell, is out of their minds. |
| 0:26.6 | Evil genius with Russell Kane. Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.4 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:42.6 | I'm Hannah Frye. |
| 0:43.8 | And I'm Dara O'Brien. |
| 0:45.3 | And this is Curious Cases. |
| 0:47.5 | The show will we take your quirkiest questions? |
| 0:49.0 | Your crudious conundrums. |
| 0:49.9 | And then we solve them. |
| 0:51.4 | With the power of science. |
| 0:52.4 | I mean, do we always solve them? |
| 0:54.4 | I mean, the hit rate's pretty low. |
| 0:55.4 | But it's with science. |
| 1:00.7 | Welcome back to Curious Cases. |
| 1:01.7 | Dara, how you doing? |
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