Summary
Does a session in a float tank work wonders for your mental health and exercise recovery?
Listener Maddy has heard a lot about float tanks and joins Greg Foot to find out if it really is the latest product worth spending money on.
She?s a keen runner and wants to know if claims that it can help with exercise recovery stack up. And what about the effects on the brain? When Maddy's partner recently paid for a session in a float tank he reported a sense of both relaxation and euphoria, which helped him through a period of poor mental health. But is any of that backed up the science?
Greg speak to two experts in the field to run the studies through the evidence mill.
All of the ideas for out investigations come from you, our listeners, and we?re always on the lookout for more. If you have seen a wonder product that claims to make you happier, healthier or greener, and want to know if it is SB or BS, then please do send it over on email to [email protected] or drop us a message or voice note on WhatsApp to 07543 306807.
PRESENTER: GREG FOOT PRODUCER: SIMON HOBAN
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| 0:00.0 | Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy. |
| 0:05.1 | My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC. |
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| 0:46.3 | Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that investigates the wonder products, |
| 0:50.2 | promising to make you happier, healthier or greener. Each episode, I run one of your suggested wonder products through the evidence mill |
| 0:56.5 | to find out if it is indeed the best thing since sliced bread or marketing BS. |
| 1:01.3 | And this week I'm joined by Maddie Emery from Newcastle. |
| 1:07.5 | Hi, Maddie. |
| 1:08.6 | Hello. |
| 1:09.2 | Tell us the wonder product then that you'd like us to investigate and why you'd like to know if it is SB or BS. |
| 1:14.8 | I want to investigate salt flotation tanks because I've heard there's different kinds of effects |
| 1:20.8 | that have on your body, whether it's sports recovery or like meditative. |
| 1:24.7 | And like my partners use them before and he's found them really euphoric but I always wondered if there's more benefit to your actual body rather than your mental health and for people listening who've not heard of a float tank before what is it it's a giant tank of salty warm water and I think you're supposed to like actually float on the top of the water |
| 1:45.4 | you can be in the dark or some of them I think you can be in the light when they play like |
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