Stay Young - Ep 2: Stay Looking Young
Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
BBC
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
How a simply dietary change can reduce wrinkles, improve skin texture and slow ageing. In this episode Michael reveals how a daily portion of colourful fruit and vegetables can help retain skin moisture and boost collagen. Carotenoids are compounds that give carrots, mangoes and tomatoes their bright red and orange colour – and they have been shown to boost your skin’s collagen and moisture, improving wrinkles, skin plumpness and texture. He speaks to dermatologist Dr Raja Sivamani from the University of California, Davis, whose research shows that eating a daily portion of mango could help reverse existing wrinkles and prevent new ones from forming. And we meet 81-year-old Annette Larkins from Florida who explains why she thinks her youthful looks are thanks to her diet consisting mainly of fruits and vegetables.
Producer: Catherine Wyler Assistant Producer: Gulnar Mimaroglu Executive Producer: Zoe Heron A BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds / BBC Radio 4.
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:28.8 | Lesson on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.0 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:38.0 | Yes, that's good. |
| 0:40.0 | We all want to live life to the fullest, feeling and looking our best. |
| 0:48.0 | But as we get older, things can start to dwindle, droop or decline. So can you slow or even stop that happening? |
| 0:57.0 | Keep that useful glow and energy. |
| 1:00.0 | Well, if you have science on your side, you can. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm Dr. Michael Mosley, and this is Stay Young, a BBC Radio 4 podcast series, |
| 1:10.0 | where each episode we pick out one simple scientifically proven thing you can |
| 1:15.3 | start doing today to rejuvenate yourself from the inside out. That smells good. Now I am 66 years old and I have tried all sorts of different ways to look younger, including |
| 1:37.0 | Botox, microneeling creams. I once even had my face burnt with a device that looked a bit like a red-hot iron, all in the name of science obviously. |
| 1:48.0 | And none of these approaches were impressive enough to make me want to go back for more. |
| 1:52.0 | At my age, and after a lifetime of regularly |
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