Stay Young - Ep 5: Stay Strong
Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
BBC
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Michael explores the best way to help you look younger as well as live longer and healthier – revealing how strength training can benefit your waistline, preserve muscle fibres and increase healthy lifespan.
Pumping up your muscles is one of the best ways to protect from the ravages of time and injury. In this episode, Michael speaks to Professor Abigail Mackey from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, to find out how resistance training can strengthen the connection between your brain and muscles, and keep them looking younger at the cellular level. And it’s not just your muscles that benefit, maintaining your muscle mass can boost your brain function, improve sleep, and significantly reduce your risk of diabetes. It may even be better at reducing belly fat than cardio! Champion weight-lifter Shirley Webb reveals how lifting weights transformed her life and mobility even though she only started pumping irons in her mid-70s. 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 | If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them? |
| 0:06.0 | Anonymity is our most valuable gift. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Kristi Young, and in Young again, I'll be asking my guests what honest advice they would give their past self. |
| 0:16.0 | Believe it when they say that loving yourself is the answer. |
| 0:20.0 | Among those joining me will be Jamie Oliver, Jeda Pinkett Smith and Mel B. |
| 0:24.1 | I knew that I had a voice and I knew that I wanted to say certain things and represent certain things. |
| 0:30.0 | Young again, with me, Kirstie Young. |
| 0:32.6 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.8 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:40.0 | 19. |
| 0:42.0 | 20. 20. |
| 0:44.0 | Right. |
| 0:45.0 | We all want to live |
| 0:48.0 | We all want to live life to the fullest, feeling and looking our best. |
| 0:52.0 | But as we get older, things... feeling and looking our best. |
| 0:53.0 | But as we get older, things can start to dwindle, droop or decline. |
| 0:59.0 | So can you slow or even stop that happening? |
| 1:02.0 | Keep that youthful glow and energy. |
| 1:05.0 | Well, if you have science on your side, you can. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm Dr Michael Mosley and this is Stay Young, a BBC Radio 4 podcast series where each episode |
| 1:16.6 | we pick out one simple scientifically proven thing you can start doing today to rejuvenate yourself from the inside out. |
| 1:25.0 | 28. |
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