Dr. Darragh Ennis
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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you know, if you're working in a healthcare environment, you're probably very carefully washing your hands for a minute or two minutes at a time, maybe 20 times a day.
That's a very large reason why we get sick is because we pick up things or we shake hands with someone or we touch the door handle and then we rub our eyes or, you know, we pick something out of our teeth and it gets into our body and it escapes. But yeah, there's a little bit of a boosted immune system to it, but some of it's just good practice.
I think one thing that a lot of people get wrong is nutrition. There is so much commercial pressure from companies who are trying to sell what are considered healthy food. And a lot of people don't understand the genuine need for a healthy diet to keep yourself healthy.
And they don't understand that a lot of the things, the supplements they're being sold or the miracle food thing, a lot of it is nonsense or it's marginal at best. So you have people who will take some miracle powdered seaweed supplement, but then will eat nothing but fast food. And they're wondering why they're not doing well.
The overriding dietary advice since probably first century is to eat a wide, varied, balanced diet that's largely based on fruit and vegetables, fresh fruit and vegetables. And I don't know if they did it in the US, but in the UK and Ireland, they said five portions a day. That's what they said. If you have five portions of fresh fruit and veg a day, that's a good start.
It was actually meant to be ten. But they realized if they told people they had to eat 10 different fruits and vegetables a day, they would just say, no, we're just going to give up. So five is kind of the bare minimum. And almost nobody eats five portions of fresh fruit and veg a day. Yeah, nobody does. Who does? Yeah, nobody does.
But if you really genuinely want to have a healthy diet, it's eat almost no processed food. And almost everything is processed food, which is a big problem. But base it on fresh fruit and veg and cook things yourself from scratch where possible. But that's not achievable in the modern world, unfortunately. So, you know, I wish there was some fun way of saying a healthy diet.
But unfortunately, healthy diets are what doctors have been telling us for since like the 1920s.
So this is one I wanted to do, and I wasn't sure that people would want to read it, but it's actually turned out to be great. It's been very popular. And I don't mean this in a spiritual way, if anybody's thinking that way. This is what happens to your body when you die. Because a lot of people, there's big taboos about death,
And we like to pretend that things don't happen, but our bodies go away. They're gone fairly soon, unless you're in very specific circumstances. Within a few decades, there's only slight remains of bone, some hair and some fillings, or if you've got a metal implant or something, that's all that's left. And that process is, I think, fascinating.
What happens when you stop being a person and you suddenly become a body, literally a body? And I think a lot of people don't realise what does happen to your body. And some of the fun things, well, fun, interesting things are that not all of your cells will die at the same rate. So, you know, your brain cells die almost straight away because they need so much energy and so much oxygen.
But your immune cells can last for days and days. You could have a dead body and you'd have little white blood cells four or five days later, just drifting around and not realizing that the body is dead because well, they're not sentient. So they'll never realize.
But yeah, I thought it was, it was important for people to, to address this because I think we shy away from it because it's a difficult subject.
Well, thanks very much for having me, Mike. It was brilliant talking to you. I really enjoyed it.
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