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🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Michael Mosley gets his flax fix, as he finds out how flax seeds, also known as linseeds, can protect your heart, reduce your blood sugar levels, and might even keep your skin feeling smooth and hydrated! With the help of Dr Grant Pierce from the University of Manitoba in Canada, Michael learns about the key components of flaxseed, including alpha-linolenic acid, and how they contribute to its array of impressive benefits. Through his research, Grant has demonstrated that daily flaxseed can lower your blood pressure and cholesterol, reducing your chance of a heart attack or stroke by a remarkable 50%! Meanwhile, our volunteer Rena finds flaxseed a welcome addition to her diet. Series Producer: Nija Dalal-Small Editor: Zoë Heron A BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds / BBC Radio 4.
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0:14.0 | We'll be talking about things like early crushes, techno and ambition. |
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0:24.8 | Miss me with Lily Allen and McKeeter Oliver listen on BBC Sounds. |
0:31.8 | BBC Sounds Music music radio podcasts. |
0:39.0 | We would all like some quick and simple ways to improve our health, but we're inundated with often conflicting advice. |
0:46.0 | So if you're going to try just one thing to improve your mental and physical well-being, what should it be? |
0:52.0 | Maybe playing a musical instrument. and physical well-being, what should it be? |
0:53.0 | Maybe playing a musical instrument to boost your brain power, |
0:57.0 | or a spoonful of olive oil to help your heart. |
1:00.0 | How about doing some volunteering |
1:02.0 | to improve your immune system? |
1:05.2 | I'm Dr Michael Mosley and this is just one thing where each episode will explore |
1:10.8 | one thing you can start doing today to improve your health or life in ways you might not expect. |
1:19.0 | It's breakfast time and I'm grind up a food that's said to not only be good for my heart |
1:27.0 | but could also lower my blood sugars something I'm particularly concerned about. |
1:34.3 | In here are some flax seeds, also known as limb seeds, and they are a nutritional power, packed |
1:40.2 | with fiber, protein, and healthy fatty acids. |
1:43.2 | They have a mild nutty taste and a really simple way to incorporate more of them into your |
1:49.7 | diet is to sprinkle them on porridge or your breakfast cereal as I'm doing now or to add some ground |
1:56.1 | flaxseed to a salad or perhaps you could bake them in bread or muffins. |
2:00.8 | As I've been discovering studies show that eating flax seeds can help lower blood pressure and also improve your skin, |
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