Does exercise lower your biological age?
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So you're a big exerciser. What are you up to today, Priya?
Oh, today's not a good day because I've been here with you. Oh, really? Well, look, I've walked to the tram stop both ways.
Oh, that's pretty good.
Yeah, there's some movement of my body. But look, yesterday I did a Pilates class. The day before that I did my cardio tennis, which you know I love.
Yeah, and I'm terrified you're going to invite me along to it.
I've invited you. You've not said yes yet.
No, I deliberately don't tell you when I'm in Melbourne. It feels like that.
It feels like that.
I hide. I hide. I feel, you know, I've cycled in, so I feel pretty good. But that's one of the stories we're looking at today. Does, in fact, cycling into work, doing physical activity like Priya, does that make you younger biologically? That's just one of the stories on today's health report.
I'm Priya Alexander on Wurundjeri land.
And I'm Norman Swan on Gadigal land.
Also coming up on the show, gynaecologists are raising alarms about growing barriers to abortion access in parts of the country. This is very concerning stuff.
Yeah, it's claimed by the gynaecologists that this is insidious and a shape of things to come, maybe like the American situation. And more on bulk billing barriers with the change in government policy, this time quite existential in terms of a particular health service. What's in the news?
First, we're covering in the news Ebola again, and we're just doing a little update here, and there have been some changes. So as of the 2nd of June, the latest data from the CDC in the United States says 363 confirmed cases, 62 confirmed deaths, and Uganda now has 15 confirmed cases as well. But we know that the numbers are likely much higher than that.
And as we go to air, the World Health Organization has said that there is some indication that it's leveling out, but it's too early to say that it's over or under control.
The WHO have also said that they are really advising against travel restrictions and travel bans. And I think they're particularly calling out the U.S. on this, who have banned anyone from affected areas from entering the country. And they're saying that it's actually making it much more difficult to have a united and fast response on the ground. And it's also disrupting supply chains as well. So they've really warned against countries doing that. And at the moment, Australia doesn't have a ban in place. I know a lot of people feel quite worried seeing the news headlines. But at international airports in Australia, there is signage for people from affected places to get tested if they have symptoms.
And we do have an isolation unit at Westmead Hospital in Sydney if there is any question there. And some positive news on vaccines that if you go right back to the beginning of COVID, one of the reasons we got vaccines so quickly is that there had been an effort to develop vaccine technologies which could turn around a vaccine very quickly after a new bug or virus has been identified. And they're using those technologies to try and turn around vaccines.
How does exercise influence biological age?
a vaccine against this particular form of Ebola as quickly as possible. So there's reasonable optimism that that will actually happen.
And I guess the only other update in this space is that the federal government has committed to $5 million in support to the global response. And so hopefully that is going to help things on the ground. But still a very worrying time for Congo and its neighbouring countries.
And another study suggesting quite disturbing levels of kids using AI chatbots for their mental health systems.
So this has been published in JAMA Pediatrics and it's used US adolescents and adults. So it's quite a broad age range, 12 to 21.
Yeah, what they did, it's not a huge study. They did a study of about 1,000 adolescents and inquired to look at what their AI usage was in association with mental health issues. Then they grossed it up. If that was true for 1,000 kids... how many children or young people would be consulting at a national level in the United States.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:15
2
How does exercise influence biological age?
3:15–4:38
3
What are the proposed changes to abortion access in Australia?
4:38–6:20
4
What impact do changes in bulk billing have on Aboriginal health services?
6:20–19:28
5
What alarming trends are emerging with AI chatbot use among adolescents?
19:28–33:10
6
Why was the drug Zoladex withdrawn from the Australian market?
33:10–39:14
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