Dr. Xand van Tulleken
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1,476 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
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And it made the paint sweet.
And so children would be in white cots and they would eat the lead paint off the cot because the paint was sweet.
And the lead industry famously said that it was up to mothers to prevent their babies eating the lead paint off their cots and getting lead poisoning.
Lead poisoning they were already getting because the mothers in those households, the children in those households, would also have been living in neighbourhoods with air pollution and the air was full of lead.
So that to me is the ultimate extension of this argument, blaming babies for their own lead poisoning.
That's the extent to which these narratives penetrate our ideas.
And blaming mothers.
And blaming mothers.
It's shocking, isn't it?
It is shocking.
We began with this question about how we could stay healthier and live longer.
Could we give any tips?
And what's nice is that you can journey through all the wellness literature and all the modern research, and Devi's given us a great tour through the things that might help us and the things that constrain us.
But in fact, to get the answer to the question, we can go back 3,000 years, and we can go back to the Epic of Gilgamesh.
And so...
I thought I'd end with a quote from the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Gilgamesh's friend has died and he is grief-stricken and he's terrified of death himself.
And so in search of...
Longevity, immortality, I suppose, the ultimate form of longevity.
He wanders to the end of the world until he comes to a tavern, which is kept by a woman called Suduri, who's a divine alewife.
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