Stay Young Special – with Prof Andrew Steptoe

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this series of special editions of BBC Radio 4 podcast Just One Thing, Michael Mosley quizzes the world’s leading health experts on the best ways to live well. In this Stay Young Special, we hear from Professor Andrew Steptoe, Head of Behavioural Science and Health at University College London, who leads the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). We hear the top tips that Professor Steptoe swears by to keep youthful. How can having a sense of purpose keep you genetically young? Why can feeling younger make you physically youthful? And how can your social life keep you in your prime? And as this is a Just One Thing special, we'll end each interview by asking Professor Steptoe for the one single most effective health hack to help you stay young.

Producer: Dom Byrne Production Manager: Maria Simons Exec Producer: Zoe Heron Specially composed music by Richard Atkinson (Mcasso) 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.
0:28.8	Lesson on BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Welcome to Just One Long Thing, a series of special editions of my BBC Radio 4 podcast Just One Thing,
0:48.0	where I quiz the world's leading health experts on the best ways to live well.
0:53.6	From talking to strangers to boost happiness,
0:56.0	to aging disgracefully to live longer.
0:59.0	I'll be learning the top tips that the experts swear by to maximize your health and well being.
1:04.7	And as this is a just one thing special, I'll end each interview by asking our expert
1:11.4	to choose the one personal health hack that they would say is the
1:16.0	single most effective way you can improve your life. In this Staying Young Special special I'm delighted to be joined by Professor Andrew Stepto
1:27.6	who is head of behavioral science and health at University College London.
1:32.2	Andrew leaves the amazing English Longitudinal Study of Aging or Elsa,
1:37.0	which has been collecting valuable data about us for more than two decades,
1:41.0	all of which is why I think he is one of the UK's leading experts
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