Stay Young - Ep 1: Stay Fit
Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
BBC
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Exercise is one of the best things you can do to rejuvenate yourself at the cellular level – but what’s the best way to do it? In this episode, Michael speaks to Associate Professor Matt Robinson from Oregon State University, who has discovered that just a few minutes of high-intensity exercise can help rejuvenate you at the cellular level, by helping restore your mitochondria, your cell’s energy powerhouses. They discuss how exercise has many benefits across your body - from your muscles, to your heart, your brain and even your skin! And we meet octogenarian and healthy ageing expert Dr Norman Lazarus, who didn’t start exercising until his fifties, and now cycles 100km a week, feeling at his prime.
Producer: Catherine Wyler Assistant Producer: Gulnar Mimaroglu Executive Producer: Zoe Heron A BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds / BBC Radio 4.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers. |
| 0:06.0 | But you sit down and be bright. |
| 0:08.0 | Celebrating women's voices. |
| 0:10.0 | You're very welcome to now you're asking with me, Marion Keys Keys and me Tara Flynn. |
| 0:14.8 | This is juicy. No limits, no limits. |
| 0:17.2 | Celebrating women. |
| 0:18.8 | Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well-being. We're on a quest to find out |
| 0:24.4 | where in the world women are living their best lives. Celebrate yourself. |
| 0:28.6 | Lesson on BBC Sounds If you can't wait for new episodes off this podcast and you're in the UK, the whole |
| 0:35.8 | series is available now first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:40.5 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:44.0 | We all want to live life to the fullest, feeling and looking our best. |
| 0:56.0 | But as we get older, things can start to dwindle, droop or decline. |
| 1:02.0 | So can you slow or even stop that happening? Keep that useful glow and |
| 1:07.7 | energy. Well if you have science on your side you can. I'm Dr Michael Mosley and this is Stay Young, a BBC Radio 4 |
| 1:17.8 | podcast series where each episode we pick out one simple scientifically |
| 1:22.4 | proven thing you can start doing today |
| 1:24.9 | to rejuvenate yourself from the inside out. |
| 1:46.0 | Whon. That was quite tough. I just finished a high intensity training session where I've been doing a series of short sprints up the hills, which is why I'm so out of breath. Now, this type of intense aerobic exercise that really gets your heart rate going is one of the best things you could do to stay young. It not only helps |
| 1:54.8 | build your muscle mass but gives you more energy. Boost your immune system, |
| 1:59.1 | improves your heart health and keeps your brain sharp, which is why it can make you look and feel years younger, |
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