Inflammation Special – with Prof Janet Lord

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this series of special editions of BBC Radio 4 podcast Just One Thing, Michael Mosley quizzes the world’s leading health experts on the best ways to live well. In this Inflammation Special, we hear from Janet Lord, who is Professor of Immune Cell Biology at the Institute for Inflammation and Ageing at Birmingham University.

We hear the top tips that Professor Lord swears by to reduce the damaging effects of inflammation on our body. How can simply moving your muscles make anti-inflammatory chemicals? Why could how much you eat be important? And what should you be eating to help reduce inflammation?

And as this is a Just One Thing special, we'll end each interview by asking Professor Lord for the one single-most effective health hack to reduce inflammation.

Producer: Dom Byrne Production Manager: Maria Simons Exec Producer: Zoe Heron Specially composed music by Richard Atkinson (Mcasso) A BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds / BBC Radio 4.

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0:00.0	If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them?
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0:16.0	Believe it when they say that loving yourself is the answer.
0:20.0	Among those joining me will be Jamie Oliver, Jeda Pinkett Smith and Mel B.
0:24.1	I knew that I had a voice and I knew that I wanted to say certain things and represent certain things.
0:30.0	Young again, with me, Kirstie Young.
0:33.0	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:35.0	BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. Welcome to Just One Thing, a series of special editions of my BBC Radio 4 podcast Just One Thing,
0:52.0	where I quiz the world's leading health experts on the best ways to live well.
0:57.0	From talking to strangers to boost happiness, to aging disgracefully to live longer, I'll be learning the top tips that the
1:05.0	expert swear by to maximize your health and well-being. And as this is a just
1:11.2	one thing special, I'll end each interview by asking our expert to choose the one personal health hack that they would say is the single most effective way you can improve your life.
1:26.0	In this inflammation special I'm delighted to be joined by Janet Lord
1:30.5	who is professor of immune cell Biology and from the Institute for
1:34.5	Inflammation and Aging at Birmingham University. Janet has made it her
1:39.0	life's work to untangle the relationship between our immune system and the diseases we invariably suffer from as we get older.
1:47.0	Now I'm very interested in inflammation because I have a family history of heart disease and stroke and I know
1:53.8	inflammation is intimately linked with that. So hello Janet thank you very much for
1:59.2	joining us. Thank you. And you've got some top tips yes? I have I've got five top tips yes I have I've got five top tips yes okay and I'm
2:06.0	going to be asking you amongst those five at the end to choose one which is
2:10.0	going to be challenging isn't it it yes I yes I love all of them. Okay so we'll discover
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