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Inside Health

Testosterone; Antidepressants in Pregnancy; Laptop Use at Night and Sleep; Shifting School Times

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Why testosterone prescriptions are on the increase in the UK and growing concern amongst some doctors that these supplements may be linked to heart attack.

Do the hours spent on laptops or tablets before bedtime disrupt your sleep?

Dr Margaret McCartney reviews the evidence for later school start times for teenagers to match their natural bodyclocks. And a listener's concern about antidepressants in pregancy - 1 in 30 women take medication for depression whilst expecting a baby, but does the science suggest these drugs are harmful?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Greg Jenna and good news, Your Dead to Me is back for a new series. Here we go. Yes, we'll explore Emperor Nero's notorious reign with Professor Marybeard and Patton Oswald. I would not want my daughter having the remote control, not alone an empire. We'll dissect the decadent life of Philippe Duke-Dor-Leon with Tom Allen. I've often tried to pretend I'm an aristocrat and being very quickly knocked down. And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Mosniak and Rihalina. I'm excited. You're dead to me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Listen first on BBC Sounds. Hello, I'm Dr Mark Porter and thank you for downloading this edition of Inside Health.

0:37.8

I hope you enjoy it.

0:39.1

Coming up in today's program, antidepressants in pregnancy,

0:42.9

should we be concerned that as many as one in 30 women in the UK take them at some stage of their pregnancy?

0:49.4

Computers, smartphones and sleep.

0:51.9

Could spending hours staring at your phone, tablet or laptop in the evening

0:55.3

be disturbing the natural rhythm that helps us all get a good night's sleep, particularly for teenagers

1:00.6

who enjoy their lions. Going to bed late and getting up late is made even worse in teenagers

1:05.5

because they're hooked to the tablets and doing the emails and all the rest of it. And at least half an hour before

1:12.1

you go to sleep, you should turn those machines off, you should limit your light exposure

1:16.9

and get into the right sort of mindset for sleep. Margaret McCartney looks at the evidence behind

1:23.1

shifting school times to fit in with teenagers' slow starts in the morning.

1:32.2

Be warned, if your adolescent is listening, you may find it even harder to get them out of bed tomorrow once they know there's a scientific explanation for their reluctance to leave the

1:37.1

warm embrace of their duvet.

1:39.1

Now, listen up, chaps.

1:40.8

Have you noticed that your energy levels aren't what they used to be?

1:43.8

Do you feel physically weaker? Are they used to be? Do you feel

1:44.4

physically weaker? Are you struggling at work? Do you nod off after dinner? And has your

1:49.8

sex drive gone off the boil? Well, if you've answered yes to most of those, then you could,

1:54.9

if you believe the hype, have what the Americans are calling low tea, lower than normal levels

2:00.4

of the male hormone testosterone.

2:03.3

At least that's what the low-tie awareness campaigns, funded by drug companies that make

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