Lift Some Weights
Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
BBC
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Lifting weights is obviously great for your strength, but it can also boost your brain power, improve your immune system, and even reverse signs of cellular ageing. Michael enlists Jenny, a self-confessed weight lifting novice, to try strength training at home using milk bottles and a sturdy rucksack. He speaks to Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose at University of British Columbia, Canada who has recently found that strength training can lead to better memory. She reveals how activating your muscles can release special chemicals called myokines which astonishingly, can travel around the body and cross your blood-brain-barrier where they can have beneficial effects on your brain.
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| 0:00.0 | If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them? |
| 0:06.0 | Anonymity is our most valuable gift. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Kristi Young, and in Young again, I'll be asking my guests what honest advice they would give their past self. |
| 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. |
| 0:40.0 | 8, 9, God that's anacering. |
| 0:45.0 | We would all like some quick and simple ways to improve our health, but we're inundated |
| 0:51.0 | with often conflicting advice. |
| 0:53.3 | So if you were going to try just one thing to improve your mental and physical well-being, |
| 0:58.5 | what should it be? |
| 0:59.5 | Perhaps the martial art of Tai Chi to improve your immune system. |
| 1:04.0 | Maybe a few nuts to slow aging. |
| 1:07.0 | Or how about cleaning your teeth to give your brain the boost? |
| 1:11.0 | I'm Dr Michael Mosley, and this is just one thing where each episode |
| 1:16.2 | will explore one thing you can start doing today to improve your health or |
| 1:21.2 | life in ways you might not expect. |
| 1:26.0 | Now just a few more. |
| 1:28.0 | Today I'm doing something that should in just a few minutes each day. |
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