Professor Luke O'Neill
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1,535 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Professor Luke O'Neill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now, that's a big difference.
And the Danish guys knew this and they wondered, was that part of it?
And they dug in a bit more deeply.
Why would the second child
be more likely to end up with a serious infection than the older child.
And of course, if you get a serious infection, it means you're out of school or you're in hospital and you're being treated differently as an infant because you're sick.
And the question then was, would that affect them?
They also are able to, again, a bit of speculation, I suppose, but they know, we know that if you have an infection, you get this thing, inflammation, that I often talk about.
Your body's under stress and they've hypothesized that that inflammation diverts nutrients away from the brain.
Because you're trying to fight the infection.
And therefore, maybe the brain is slightly different.
And again, that's a bit of speculation.
But it's not unreasonable to speculate that if you have an infection, something happens and maybe your brain develops slightly differently.
And as a result, then you don't do quite so well in exams.
And that might translate into poorer job prospects down the line is the idea.
So it's a complicated enough kind of notion, I suppose.
But I do like this idea that the second child is more likely to get infections.
And that could well then mean that certain things happen that mean they don't do as well in education.
And then they end up in a slightly worse job.
Now, the evidence again got even more compelling.
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