Longevity Supplements - 100th Episode

Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Can taking special supplements help us to live longer?

It's the 100th episode of Sliced Bread and to mark the occasion we're investigating the pills and supplements that claim to help us live longer - and more healthy - lives. Listener Soly has heard about so-called 'biohackers' such as Bryan Johnson in the US, who are trying to turn back the clock on their biological age and reverse the process that makes their bodies vulnerable to illness and disease. Each day they're taking a special blend of compounds and chemicals which they claim slow down or even reverse the hallmarks of ageing.

Increasingly these supplements and diet plans are available to buy - but are they worth the money? Can they really extend our lives beyond the current normal human lifespan? What does the evidence say so far about their effectiveness?

Greg is joined in the studio by Dr Andrew Steele, author of 'Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old' to try to unlock the secrets of staying young and run the studies through the evidence mill.

We could not have made it to 100 episodes of Sliced Bread without YOUR suggestions for wonder products to investigate. Please do keep them coming! If you have seen something claiming 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 PRODUCERS: SIMON HOBAN AND PHIL SANSOM

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0:00.0	Hello, podcast fan.
0:03.0	Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party.
0:06.7	We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July
0:09.0	for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival.
0:12.8	We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting,
0:15.3	including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane,
0:18.4	and some bloke called Greg James doing his radio four show called Rewinder.
0:23.2	You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts,
0:25.3	and the best part is free.
0:28.0	To book your free tickets,
0:29.3	go to crossedwires.orgive, forward slash fringe.
0:34.1	BBC Sounds, music, Radio Podcasts.
0:42.3	Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the 100th episode of Slice Bread from BBC Radio 4,
0:48.4	the show that investigates the wonder products promising to make you happier, healthier or greener.
0:53.1	I can't quite believe we have hit
0:54.5	a century. I'm super chuff with that. Over the past few years, we have investigated well over
0:59.2	100 of your suggested wonder products to find out if they are indeed the best things since sliced
1:04.4	bread or marketing BS. Everything from face creams and low alcohol beer to dishwashers and weighted blankets and of course
1:12.7	air fryers. If you have missed any of those, all the episodes are available on BBC Sounds.
1:18.4	And to introduce what we'll be investigating this time, let me welcome listener Solly Milton in Cornwall.
1:27.2	Hello, Solly.
1:28.3	Hi, Greg.
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