Dr. Xand van Tulleken
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1,476 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
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That's interesting.
You get
bored.
Yes.
Okay.
Well, I think a lot of people listening will relate to that.
I mean you almost say like when things are routine, they're ordinary, they're predictable.
We think of the nine to five day, the school day.
There's some research saying that half of Brits stick to the same routine day in and day out.
A lot of these routines are to do with health.
Yes, that's interesting.
So like a dance, think of the dance and go, Okay, well a routine can be d you could do Swan Lake in the morning or the afternoon, but the dance routine would be the same.
Similarly with surgery, for instance, there is a routine to surgery, where a sequence of steps unfolds to deliver a piece of care.
Medicine relies on these practices where things occur in sequence that are very goal directed.
It's almost impossible to imagine healthcare without routines and similarly a healthy life.
You'd have to be very strategic about your sort of unpredictable spontaneous behavior in order to get as much benefit as going, Look, in order to get fit, I need to do the following sequence of steps.
You know, put on my shoes, put on my clothes, probably in the other order, you know.
But but then
know I'm the one in favour of
Look there are lots of ways of thinking about routines.
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