Dr. Xand van Tulleken
speaker
1,476 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 22 Sep
Dr. Xand van Tulleken’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A little bit of advice.
It would be a great thing to do on the radio.
Who can argue with that?
I can argue with that.
So I'm going to quote directly from the report that that headline referenced.
It talked about these pillars of living well.
It talked about what we eat.
The air we breathe, the water we drink, above all stress and smoking.
Zand, we don't choose the air we breathe, the water we drink.
How can these things be our responsibility?
That's a reasonable point, isn't it?
But the headline said 80% of our ill health in old age.
It didn't say 100%.
So sure, maybe it's hard to change the air you breathe or the water that you drink, but you could do all kinds of things to improve your health, couldn't you?
So I think this tension is at the heart of what we're talking about today.
The sense that I do have some free will, but I feel a pressure that I should and can take responsibility for my health.
And I'm told this all the time.
There are many companies who want to sell me apps and subscriptions and supplements and wearable tech.
But Zand, in spite of this deluge of information, all the available tech, our life expectancy is shrinking and our health span is also shrinking.
So in the last decade, our years of healthy life have shrunk significantly.
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