Video consultations, Low-fibre diets, Testosterone
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dr Mark Porter investigates the dramatic increase in testosterone prescribing; low fibre diets - why the traditional advice to eat high fibre is not always recommended. And having a consultation with your GP via a video service such as Skype from your computer - is there any evidence to back up the government's latest answer to increasing access to your doctor.
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| 0:38.9 | Coming up in today's program, dietary fibre, why doctors don't always adhere to the long-held |
| 0:44.1 | belief that high-fiber diets are best. And testosterone, we take a closer look at the dramatic |
| 0:49.8 | increase in the number of older men being prescribed the hormone. The trouble with testosterone |
| 0:54.3 | has got this aura about being a sex hormone. There's a lot more to it. And if you go back in |
| 0:59.1 | evolution, the hunter was the male and he had to go out and capture the prey. So if you look at the |
| 1:05.9 | potential other benefits apart from the sexual side, to actually run after the prey, he's got to have good fitness, |
| 1:12.2 | so it's good muscle function. And to get that muscle function working well, you've got to have a good |
| 1:17.3 | blood flow from the heart. And testosterone also dilates the blood vessels to the muscles. And also, |
| 1:23.0 | if you talk to the patients that I have on testosterone, They are doing more. It's happened several times |
| 1:28.3 | that people like dancing and they couldn't dance and they can dance again. But while some regard |
| 1:33.9 | testosterone as a panacea, there's growing concern from other quarters that we're overusing the hormone |
| 1:39.6 | and putting lives at risk. More on that debate later. But first, imagine if your GP sounded like this. |
| 1:47.0 | Only 11% currently being off on the NHS are known to be beneficial. And a huge 50% have underanness. |
| 1:56.8 | That's probably, you know, might well... One of the many inaudible Skype interviews we've done for Inside Health |
| 2:01.8 | that have ended up on the cutting room floor. |
| 2:04.6 | But despite the challenges, better use of internet-based technologies like that |
| 2:08.6 | is at the heart of a new £50 million initiative |
| 2:11.4 | to make it easier for people to see their GP. |
| 2:14.7 | Over 1,000 practices in England will use the money to come up with strategies |
| 2:18.5 | ranging from extended opening hours to offering video consultations. But is harnessing new technology |
| 2:24.6 | the answer? GP, Dr Margaret McCartney is in our Glasgow studio. Margaret, have you ever used |
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