Compression Leggings, Bath Salts, Water Softeners and Filters
Sliced Bread
BBC
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Can compression leggings improve performance and help your limbs recover after exercise? Do magnesium bath salts really help soothe aching muscles? And do water softeners and filters really help save us money on our appliances by preventing scale from building up in our pipes?
With Greg still in Edinburgh for the Festival, we’re sticking with last week’s format and investigating THREE of the wonder-products you’ve sent us on WhatsApp in a "triple slice" of quick investigations.
First up, Listener Sarah from North Devon wants to know if buying expensive compression leggings can really help improve her exercise performance and speed up her recovery. Greg speaks to one of the UK’s leading researchers on compression garments, Dr. Jess Hill, to find out the science behind them – and when we should wear them.
Second is listener Rosie from Sheffield who wants to know if magnesium or 'Epsom' bath salts really can help soothe aching muscles – so Greg chats to leading expert on magnesium, Dr. Lindsy Kass from the University of Hertfordshire to find out what it does in our bodies, and if we can actually absorb it through our skin.
And third, Listener Matthew from Suffolk wants to know if Water Softeners and filters can improve water quality, if they’re necessary, and if they can save us money on our household appliances by preventing the build up of scale. Greg chats to internationally recognised expert in drinking water Vanessa Speight - to find out.
Keep your suggestions coming for wonder-products you’d like us to investigate. Send them over on email to sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk or as a voice note to our WhatsApp number: 07543 306807.
PRESENTER: Greg Foot
PRODUCER: Kate Holdsworth
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, podcast fan. |
| 0:03.0 | Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party. |
| 0:06.7 | We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July |
| 0:09.0 | for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival. |
| 0:12.8 | We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting, |
| 0:15.3 | including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane, |
| 0:18.4 | and some bloke called Greg James doing his radio four show called Rewinder. |
| 0:23.2 | You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts, |
| 0:25.3 | and the best part is free. |
| 0:28.0 | To book your free tickets, |
| 0:29.3 | go to crossedwires.orgive, forward slash fringe. |
| 0:34.1 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:49.1 | Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that investigates your suggested wonder products. |
| 0:55.3 | If you have spotted something in an advert on TV or in a magazine or on your social media feeds that is claiming to make you happier, healthier and greener, let me know. I will run it through |
| 1:00.5 | the evidence mill and find out if it is indeed the best thing since sliced bread or sadly just |
| 1:05.8 | marketing BS. You can send your suggestions over on email to slister.bred at BBC.co.uk or as a voice note on |
| 1:14.1 | WhatsApp to 07543 306-807. This episode is the last of the current series and as I'm away at the |
| 1:23.0 | moment, we are doing what we did last week, breaking from our normal format of doing a deep dive into a |
| 1:28.9 | single wonder product, and instead doing a trio of smaller investigations into three, three |
| 1:35.3 | bite-sized chunks rather than a full baguette, if you will. No? Okay, today's topics start with |
| 1:41.9 | a sports recovery double bill, compression leggings and bathsalts, |
| 1:46.7 | and end with a look at water softeners and water filters. |
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