Take Vitamin D

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

During the winter months, here in the UK, days are short and there isn’t enough sunlight for most of us to make the vitamin D we need. Taking a tiny vitamin D supplement is a minute change that could have a huge impact on our health. Professor David Llewellyn from Exeter University explains to Michael that vitamin D helps clear abnormal proteins, such as amyloid plaques and tau, from the brain, which may help protect you from dementia. Having enough vitamin D can also boost your immune systems, making that common cold easier to recover from. It could even lift your mood! Volunteer Baljit tries making vitamin D a habit.

Series Producer: Nija Dalal-Small Science Producer: Catherine Wyler Researcher: Sophie Richardson Researcher: Will Hornbrook Production Manager: Maria Simons Editor: 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.
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0:28.8	Lesson on BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. You're about to listen to a brand new, just one thing, with me, Michael Mosley.
0:41.0	New episodes will be released on Wednesdays, but if you're in the UK
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0:49.7	We would all like some quick and simple ways to improve our health, but we're inundated
0:58.9	with often conflicting advice. So if you're going to try just one thing to improve your mental and
1:05.2	physical well-being, what should it be? Maybe some green tea to boost your brain
1:10.1	power or doing a plank to lure your blood pressure. How about some small acts of
1:16.1	kindness to benefit your immune system? I've Dr Michael Mosley and this is just one thing where each episode will explore one
1:25.9	thing you can start doing today to improve your health or life in ways you might not expect. So it's cold and dark out there, gloomy enough to make you want to emigrate.
1:38.0	But instead I'm doing a much simpler thing which could boost my mood, strengthen my bones and reduce
1:44.8	inflammation. I'm taking a vitamin D supplement.
1:50.3	There it goes. I eat a lot of oily fish which is rich in vitamin D and in the summer I try to boost my
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