Dr. Xand van Tulleken
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10 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
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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.
by two full years to 60 years, so five years below the age of retirement in this country when you get a state pension.
So all of this isn't working.
We live for a quarter of our life in the UK with chronic disease.
So this is where Chris and I are beginning this episode.
is this dilemma about going, should we be sending you home with a shopping list of things to do that you can do to make yourselves feel better and live longer?
Or do we send you home with things that you should try and demand of your politicians and the corporations that shape your health environment?
This is a complex topic.
It is a complex topic.
And I will say...
I think it may, for many of us, get quite emotional.
I think when I think about my health struggles, a lot of it is about self-loathing and about guilt and about recriminations.
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