Tag: Longevity

  • Catherine Foot

    Health is wealth and expect the unexpected – surely the two most apt truisms of these crazy days on so many fronts. Both ring truer than usual for guest Catherine […]

  • Poet Donna Ashworth

    It’s as if she’s got a hotline to your head. She gets inside your mind, rummages round all those piles of messy-feely thoughts, even the ones in the darkest corners, […]

  • Bruce Hiland + Ted Kaufman on how not to fail at retirement

      They call themselves retirement recidivists. My guests Bruce Hiland and Ted Kaufman tried but failed several times to call time on busy, high-status careers. They’re the authors of the […]

  • Deb Gale + Rich Eisenberg on UNretirement

    I’ve always given the notion of retirement shortest shrift on The Big Middle. What does it even mean in 2022? We don’t retire these days, we shift gears, we make […]

  • Bradley Schurman

    We in The Big Middle years could easily drown in the ocean of information and advice sloshing around about how we should be – how we should reflect, recalibrate, repackage […]

  • Perspectives on resilience + finding joy from three postmenopausal widows

    I had to scale back my intentions with this one. I wanted to bring you the testimonies of at least a  dozen post-60s women. But I wasn’t prepared for the […]

  • Dr Jay Wrigley

    I’ve got just the right learned guest for you to spill all the tea on the interaction between hormones and food and feeling your healthy best when all is in […]

  • Tim Spector

        The central thread I’ve been pulling through a raft of episodes with superstar scientists and doctors is there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to what to eat to […]

  • Jayne Bullen, Dr Andrew Oswari, Frank Zweedijk

    When it comes to nutrition, it’s no big stretch to say the medical education system is broken. The runaway global pandemic of lifestyle diseases confirms that sad fact. Knowledge gaps […]

  • Dr Ian Lake

    Prepare to be amazed and intrigued in turn if you have Type 1 diabetes or know someone who does. Type 2 diabetes is a lifestyle disease we’re learning can be […]

  • What it means, how it feels to grow old (REPLAY)

    Another summer holiday replay for you this week. This one’s a gem, a favourite. It’ll get you thinking about the road ahead if you’ve not quite managed to shift your […]

  • Dr Rupert Dunbar-Rees

    There’s a dark symmetry to what’s happening in this time of COVID when it comes to life expectancy. The global numbers are, no surprise, falling after several years of stall and […]

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