Motion Sickness Remedies

Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Greg Foot gets queasy in the name of science as he investigates the range of products promising to help with motion sickness.

Do the pills, wristbands or breathing techniques which claim to stop you from feeling sick on planes, trains and automobiles actually work?

To find out, Greg heads to Professor John Golding's laboratory at the University of Westminster where a spinning chair is used to induce symptoms of motion sickness.

Why don't scientifically-proven treatments always work for everyone?

If you?ve seen an ad, trend or fad relating to another consumer product and wonder if there?s any evidence to back up a claim, then email us: [email protected] or you can send a voice note to our WhatsApp number: 07543 306807

Sliced Bread is a BBC Audio North production for Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

PRESENTER: Greg Foot PRODUCER: Jon Douglas

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0:47.5	Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that investigates your suggested wonder products.
0:52.8	If you've seen something on the supermarket shelves or on your social media promising you the world and you'd like to know if it is indeed
0:54.4	the best things since sliced bread or marketing BS send it on over either as a voice note on
1:00.7	WhatsApp to 07543 306807 or in an email to slice.bred at bbc.co.com. Someone who did just that
1:10.0	is Wendy Hawkins in Bristol. So I gave her and her partner, Dave, a call.
1:16.3	Good morning. Hello. Good morning. Wendy, lovely to meet you. Dave, good to have you on the call as well.
1:23.9	So, Wendy, you got in touch with a subject that's pretty close to my heart, or should I say
1:27.5	stomach? Tell me, what would you like me to investigate? I'd like you to investigate
1:31.2	motion sickness and remedies for that. If I'm in the back of a car looking at my phone, then I can
1:37.2	feel pretty sick. But I get the sense from your email that you really suffer. Yeah, I've been
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