Drug Discovery: The Future of Pharma
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I have you loud and clear. |
| 0:03.0 | Hello. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:06.0 | Science and that is the same |
| 0:10.0 | physics, medicine, nature, or |
| 0:12.0 | time, brain, life, the universe. |
| 0:16.3 | This week, from big farmer to little farmer, we're finding out how are new drugs discovered. |
| 0:21.7 | Plus, in the news, what powers the Northern Lights on Jupiter, |
| 0:25.2 | why cuckoos have the last laugh, |
| 0:27.7 | and three decades from a telescope that's changed our view of the universe. |
| 0:31.8 | Hello, I'm Chris Smith and this is the Naked |
| 0:34.6 | Sciences. The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. Now let's start with a look at fat. For years we've been told for the benefit of good health to keep fat intake to a minimum. |
| 0:55.0 | And that makes the discovery announced last week that a diet where most of the calories come from fat |
| 1:01.0 | and makes mice live 13% longer and stay active and healthy further into old age, |
| 1:07.6 | very surprising. |
| 1:09.4 | Eating a high fat diet induces a state that's called ketitosis and somehow this alters metabolism into a life- prolonging |
| 1:16.5 | state. So what should be on the menu? John Ramsey. |
| 1:20.8 | This is a diet that's become increasingly popular. |
| 1:24.0 | Breakfast, for example, might be to have a couple of eggs, |
| 1:28.0 | avocado on the side, milk with some heavy cream, |
| 1:32.0 | and then for lunch it might be something like having a |
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