Speedy medicine, and is fermented food good for us?

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we’re taking a look at emergency medicine outside hospitals and surgeries – and meeting the people who save seriously-ill people in unusual places.

Smitha Mundasad goes on a rainy walk in the hills with the Brecon Mountain Rescue Team and meets the flying medics of London’s Air Ambulance. Will she have time for a chat before they get a call-out? We also hear from Sweden where they’re making lifesaving changes before the ambulance even arrives.

And from kombucha and kimchi to keffir and sourdough, fermented food and drink is everywhere. But as these foods have exploded in popularity, so have claims of health benefits, from digestion and gut health, to immunity and mood.

We start by trying some fermenting with chef Olia Hercules and then Smitha chats to fermented food “nerd” Professor Paul Cotter to sift through the evidence.

Next week’s Inside Health is all about the perimenopause – the time leading up to the menopause when oestrogen starts to drop. Why is it all still such a mystery?

Send us your questions – and we’ll put them to our panel. It’s insidehealth@bbc.co.uk

Presenter: Smitha Mundasad Producer: Gerry Holt Editor: Martin Smith Production co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris

Declared interests: Professor Paul Cotter: “Research in the Cotter laboratory has been funded by PrecisionBiotics Group, Friesland Campina, Danone and PepsiCo. Paul Cotter has also received funding to travel to or present at meetings by H&H, the National Dairy Council U.S., PepsiCo, Abbott, Arla and Yakult. In addition, he is the co-founder and CTO of SeqBiome Ltd., a provider of sequencing and bioinformatics services for microbiome analysis.”

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0:29.6	Hello there, this is Inside Health and I'm Smythamundasid.
0:34.1	Now, are you one of those people who's got a fridge full of kombucha and kimchi?
0:38.7	I definitely am. I fully embrace that pandemic craze for making sourdough and other fermented food.
0:45.3	But is there really any evidence that it's good for you?
0:48.6	We'll be chatting to a self-confessed fermented food nerd later in the program.
0:54.5	But first, we're going to take a look at emergency medicine outside hospitals and surgeries.
1:00.4	How do medics get help to seriously ill people when they're in unusual places,
1:05.1	away from all the equipment and support you get in hospitals?
1:08.8	Let's start in the mountains on a walk with the Brecken Mountain
1:13.3	Rescue Team. It's a wet, windy, probably quite normal day for this part of the world. What does it
1:22.0	look like when the sun's out? It is fantastic. When you look around, you've got the beautiful
1:27.1	view of Penavan and Banabrakhani-Khaniog. You don't need anything more. This is the place to be. Hi, I'm Dr. Rob Powell. I'm a GP and team leader of Breckermount to rescue. This is not a typical Monday morning for me. It's so nice to be back in Wales where I grew up. Should we head on up the path?
1:47.8	Can you tell me a little bit about what you're most called out for?
1:52.8	So we have a huge range of call-outs from patients with dementia who we're looking for.
2:02.6	We sometimes have lots of ankle injuries, lots of trauma and just generally lost walkers on the hill who have gone out and just taken a wrong path.
2:05.1	And what do you do when you get that call out? Talk me through it.
2:08.2	Well, the police will generally get the call initially, or 999.
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