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Inside Health

The Nobel Prize for Medicine, new plans to add nutrients to foods

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Anyone need a hug? I’m taking a look at this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine. It helps explain how we experience the physical sensations of touch, heat and cold. Yes it’s the hugs, tea and ice cream Nobel! But it could also have implications for treating pain, so Prof Irene Tracey is here to discuss. And you wait decades for fortification and two come along at once. I explore why the government wants to tweak our flour and water.

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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.

0:23.0

And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Mosniak and Rihalina.

0:26.9

I'm excited.

0:27.6

You're dead to me.

0:28.5

The comedy podcast that takes history seriously.

0:30.9

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:34.5

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0:38.2

I'm holding the future of medicine in my hands.

0:42.6

Welcome to the Inside Health podcast, by the way.

0:44.7

I'm James Gallagher.

0:46.1

And I know what you're thinking.

0:47.5

Have I got some new magical therapy?

0:49.4

Is it a wonder drug?

0:50.9

Well, no.

0:52.5

It's just my lunch.

0:53.8

In my left hand, I've got a slice of toast. And in my right,

0:57.2

good old-fashioned cup of tea. Later on this pod, we'll find out about plans to tweak our food

1:03.2

and drink. But first, it's Nobel Prize Week. The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been

1:08.8

given to two US-based researchers for their work into touch receptors.

1:13.8

David Julius and Adam Pataputian used chili and wasabi to identify the senses

1:18.6

that enable the body to feel heat, pain and pressure.

1:22.9

How we actually sense the physical world around us had been one of the great mysteries of our own bodies.

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