Does Weather Affect our Health?
CrowdScience
BBC
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Do your joints ache when it's raining? Are you blighted with headaches when the wind picks up? If the answer’s yes then you're definitely not alone. People have been linking their heath to the weather since the time of the Ancient Greeks - but is the effect real?
CrowdScience heads for the hills and gets closer to the clouds to have a go at answering this 2,500 year old question.
People who believe they’re sensitive to the weather aren’t always taken seriously. But presenter Datshiane Navanayagam hears about the latest ground-breaking experiments that show there's a lot more to it than folklore. And if you've ever wondered why you're particularly prone to aches and pains in the winter, the answer could all be in your genes.
Do you have a question we can turn into a programme? Email us at crowdscience@bbc.co.uk
Presenter: Datshiane Navanayagam Producer: Anna Lacey
(Image: Man looking up to grey clouds. Credit: Thinkstock)
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| 0:35.0 | She's squelch, isn't it? |
| 0:40.0 | I haven't walked up a hill for quite a long time. |
| 0:42.8 | No I haven't. I feel like this is going to give away how a fit I am. |
| 0:45.8 | It does look pretty steep. |
| 0:47.8 | This week crowd science is heading for the hills. |
| 0:51.8 | Wow, look at that. Green, green fields. So tell me you |
| 0:58.9 | wish you hadn't come. Well it's fine when we pause Anna. I think this is worth a view. It's worth the effort. Wow. |
| 1:07.0 | You can see right across. Right. Sun's out, sky's blue. Keep going? Let's keep going. |
| 1:17.1 | You're listening to crowd science on the BBC World Service. I'm Dacchioni in Avonnayagagan and I'm currently walking up an extremely steep muddy hill in the North York maws. |
| 1:28.8 | To get myself just a tiny bit closer to the clouds and the weather so that we can answer this |
| 1:36.0 | week's question which is all about how the weather impacts our health. |
| 1:40.3 | Hello crowd science my name is Sabina Katri and I'm calling you from |
| 1:46.3 | Colombo in Sri Lanka. My question for today's program is why do I |
| 1:52.2 | experience pain in my legs before So tell me a little bit more about what this pain is. |
| 1:55.0 | So tell me a little bit more about what this pain is. |
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