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The mysterious death of Dr Michael Mosley · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Theaustralian dot com. Dou What happened to Dr Moseley? It's
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  Speaker 1: the mystery fascinating the world as a popular TV doctor
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  Speaker 1: dies on what should have been a blissful holiday in
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  Speaker 1: the Greek Islands. Today, the death and life of doctor
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  Speaker 1: Michael Moseley, who changed the way we talk and think
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  Speaker 1: about our health.
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  Speaker 2: Life comes at us fast, thoughts and ideas, hopes and worries.
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  Speaker 2: It is all too easy to get caught up in
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  Speaker 2: the whirlwind.
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  Speaker 1: This is the voice of doctor Michael Moseley, a sixty
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  Speaker 1: seven year old British medico and TV presenter who devoted
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  Speaker 1: his life to making other people feel better.
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  Speaker 2: But deep with them, we do have the capacity to
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  Speaker 2: achieve an inner piece that does not depend on the
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  Speaker 2: outside world or on anyone else.
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  Speaker 1: Deep Calm is one of Moseley's podcasts, part of a
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  Speaker 1: suite of thoughtful, inspiring shows he made for the BBC
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  Speaker 1: and other broadcasters including SBS Australia, synthesizing his medical training
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  Speaker 1: and appetite for knowledge with a gift for simply communicating
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  Speaker 1: big ideas about everything from diet to sleep. In that
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  Speaker 1: podcast episode you heard, Mosley was explaining the latest research
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  Speaker 1: on the science of how our brains process images of
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  Speaker 1: the natural world to ease us stress.
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  Speaker 2: This activates your body's relaxation response, slowing your heart rate,
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  Speaker 2: lowering your blood pressure, and via the release of calming
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  Speaker 2: neurotransmitters in the brain, lifting your mood.
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  Speaker 1: Mosley was trusted and like that's why. Over the past
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  Speaker 1: five days, the world has been gripped by the story
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  Speaker 1: of Moseley's disappearance on a Greek island, Simmi, where he
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  Speaker 1: was holidaying with his wife Claire, after he decided to
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  Speaker 1: take a walk in nature.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor Michael Moseley.
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  Speaker 4: Doctor Michael Moseley Television for doctor Michael Moseley.
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  Speaker 5: It's believed the body of doctor Michael Moseley has been found.
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  Speaker 1: Oose of five days, an immense search of air, land
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  Speaker 1: and sea took place. Emergency services, tourists and the island's
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  Speaker 1: locals searched cliffs, the rocky shore, the ocean and the
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  Speaker 1: bleak terrain above. But all along Moseley was right there,
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  Speaker 1: just out of sight, about ten or fifteen meters from
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  Speaker 1: the resort.
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  Speaker 5: The body was found just behind me in this incredibly
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  Speaker 5: steep and rocky terrain. It's close to the path where
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  Speaker 5: he was thought to have taken to Agiamarina in Simi,
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  Speaker 5: but it's not an actual route down to the beach.
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  Speaker 5: It appears that he may have slipped over while making
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  Speaker 5: his way down.
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  Speaker 1: This is our colleague, journalist Ed Southgate of London's The Sun.
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  Speaker 5: Just this morning at around ten thirty, I was doing
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  Speaker 5: a piece to camera when an agitated barman alerted us
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  Speaker 5: to something behind that fence by pointing up. He began
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  Speaker 5: marching back to the restaurant area as we looked over
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  Speaker 5: the wall and ourselves saw the body.
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  Speaker 1: Just before this, other journalists wi the island's mayor in
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  Speaker 1: a boat had seen something shining on the rocky slope
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  Speaker 1: and had called the barman to alert him. The brightness
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  Speaker 1: they'd seen turned out to be the sun glinting off
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  Speaker 1: Michael Moseley's wristwatch. In his piece for The Sun, Ed wrote,
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  Speaker 1: I froze. It was horrifying and incredibly overwhelming. I was
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  Speaker 1: hit by an intense shock and sadness. I felt sick
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  Speaker 1: and at several points I was on the verge of tears.
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  Speaker 5: This horrific discovery comes five days after doctor Mosey when missing,
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  Speaker 5: and huge questions are sure to follow over why search
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  Speaker 5: teams took so long to get to him and why
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  Speaker 5: he was ultimately found by a barman and then a journalist.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the bomb and Ilias Savarus speaking to Ed, they.
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  Speaker 3: Said to me, kay, go and check that place over there.
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  Speaker 3: I was able to see him like really from paraway,
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  Speaker 3: so I went close to make sure that is I
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  Speaker 3: went close, I saw the body down there.
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  Speaker 5: And after he saw the body, what happened?
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  Speaker 3: Then I called immediately the guy who called me the
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  Speaker 3: owner because he was with the coast guard. I said,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I found the body, Come run run now.
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  Speaker 1: The Greek island of Simi is in the South Egan,
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  Speaker 1: part of the Dodecanese chain of islands close to Turkey.
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  Speaker 1: Simi is mentioned by many of the giants of ancient history, fucidities,
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  Speaker 1: Herodotus and Homer, who's twenty eight hundred year old epic
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  Speaker 1: poem the Iliad describes a handsome king, Nereus of Simi,
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  Speaker 1: setting sail with three ships to attack Troy, a city
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  Speaker 1: far to the north in what's now Turkey, to recapture
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  Speaker 1: Queen Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, who
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  Speaker 1: had been captured by the Trojans. Simi's economy is built
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  Speaker 1: on fishing and now tourism. Simi's big on destination weddings,
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  Speaker 1: where couples can marry in the island's antique stone churches
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  Speaker 1: or even the giant monastery of Saint Michael of Panometis,
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  Speaker 1: and after the ceremony. The happy couples come to Argia
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  Speaker 1: Marina for their receptions, and it's just here outside a
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  Speaker 1: wire fence, steps from the bar where Moseley's body lay.
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  Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Mosley's wife, Claire Bailey Moseley, released a
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  Speaker 1: statement in which she said how proud she was of
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  Speaker 1: the couple's four adult children, who'd rushed the island to
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  Speaker 1: join the search. She thanked locals, searches and the media.
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  Speaker 1: He's doctor Claire Bailey Moseley's statement, as reported on Sky News.
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  Speaker 4: Me, she says, I don't know quite where to begin
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  Speaker 4: with this. It's devastating to have lost Michael, my wonderful, funny,
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  Speaker 4: kind and brilliant husband. We had an incredibly lucky life together.
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  Speaker 4: We loved each other very much and were so happy together.
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  Speaker 4: We're taking comfort in the fact that he so very
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  Speaker 4: nearly made it. He did an incredible climb, took the
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  Speaker 4: wrong route and collapsed where he couldn't be easily seen
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  Speaker 4: by the extensive search team.
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  Speaker 1: She was with Michael Moseley at one thirty pm local
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  Speaker 1: time on Wednesday, when he left the beach at Agios
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  Speaker 1: Nikolaus to walk back to Adia Marina, where they were staying.
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  Speaker 1: About twenty minutes after leaving the beach, CCTV captured him
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  Speaker 1: halfway to his destination, walking through the town of Petty,
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  Speaker 1: striding out confidently, shaded by his umbrella. The rest of
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  Speaker 1: the walk should have taken Moseley between ten minutes and
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  Speaker 1: half an hour, but it seems he ended up doing
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  Speaker 1: a much more arduous hike than he'd planned.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we know that about just over a kilometer from
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  Speaker 6: where he set off, he was seen at a cafe
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  Speaker 6: or walking past a cafe, and that was the critical
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  Speaker 6: juncture point.
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  Speaker 1: Jacqueline Magnee is The Australian's europe correspondent.
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  Speaker 6: He should have turned left to go back to his accommodation,
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  Speaker 6: but instead he appears to have gone right and gone
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  Speaker 6: up a very steep, rocky mountain side. Now we don't
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  Speaker 6: know whether he got lost, whether that was intentional, or
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  Speaker 6: whether he was confused, whether he was suffering he'd exhaustion
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  Speaker 6: at that point, but he did walk past assistance. So
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  Speaker 6: the thought is that if he was in any kind
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  Speaker 6: of distress at that point, that he could have got help,
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  Speaker 6: but he's chosen or has gone up this very rocky,
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  Speaker 6: steep mountainside and then obviously has reached the top, maybe
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  Speaker 6: looked at the view, and then has gone down the
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  Speaker 6: other side to where this marina is.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't have a mobile phone with him, and his
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  Speaker 1: increasingly frantic wife raised the alarm that afternoon. Initial reports
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  Speaker 1: from local police suggest Moseley died several days before he
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  Speaker 1: was found on Sunday local time, and his backpack was
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  Speaker 1: located several meters above him on the slope down to
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  Speaker 1: the water. That's led to speculation he slipped, possibly after
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  Speaker 1: a medical episode of some kind. Coming up Michael Moseley's
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  Speaker 1: After qualifying as a doctor, Michael Mosley joined the BBC
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  Speaker 1: in the mid eighties as a producer, determined to use
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  Speaker 1: his medical knowledge to communicate with the world. But along
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  Speaker 1: the way he made some confronting discoveries about his own
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  Speaker 1: health that changed his life dramatically. In his early fifties,
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  Speaker 1: Moseley was diagnosed with type two diabetes. He'd gained a
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  Speaker 1: lot of weight around his mid section, and he had
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  Speaker 1: a shocking realization he might be on the same path
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  Speaker 1: as his father, who'd been overweight and had also suffered
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  Speaker 1: type two diabetes. Moseley's father had heart failure and early
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  Speaker 1: onset dementia and died at seventy four. Mosley took up
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  Speaker 1: a Mediterranean diet, high protein, high end green veggies, and
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  Speaker 1: lots of healthy fats like olive oil. He also experimented
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  Speaker 1: with intimittent fasting, spending twelve or more hours out of
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  Speaker 1: every twenty four eating nothing at all. For some people,
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  Speaker 1: Bat's skipping breakfast or skipping dinner. Mostly's podcast, Just One
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  Speaker 1: Thing for the BBC focused on all the small things
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  Speaker 1: we can do to feel and be better, like eating
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  Speaker 1: dark chocolate.
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  Speaker 2: I have a seriously sweet tooth, so much so that
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  Speaker 2: I normally don't have any sugar retreats in the house
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  Speaker 2: because I know I'll just eat them.
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  Speaker 7: But today I am allowing myself just one thing that
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  Speaker 7: should not only satisfy my cravings, but may even lure
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  Speaker 7: my blood pressure, improve my cardiovascular health, and perhaps even
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  Speaker 7: boost my brain. Working out, I've been doing HIT, high
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  Speaker 7: intensity interval training that HIT may well be the single
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  Speaker 7: best way to get the most benefit to oct of
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  Speaker 7: excise in the shortest amount of.
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  Speaker 1: Time and getting a better sleep.
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  Speaker 2: He's only ten o'clock in the evening, but I'm already
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  Speaker 2: beginning to wind down and get ready for bed.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Jacqueline Magne.
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  Speaker 6: Well, he was very popular because he was quirky and
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  Speaker 6: he put himself out there. He used his own body
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  Speaker 6: as experiments. So he did this one bizarre experiment where
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  Speaker 6: he actually ingested tapeworms and had tapeworms in his body
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  Speaker 6: for six weeks to see the impact on the body
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  Speaker 6: that would have. Now that kind of shows how a
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  Speaker 6: little bit bizarre, a little bit off field he was.
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  Speaker 6: But he had a very engaging personality and he presented
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  Speaker 6: his theories and experiments in a very factual, engaging way,
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  Speaker 6: and so people loved him because he was just very personable.
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  Speaker 6: He was a voice that was respected. So if doctor
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  Speaker 6: Moseley suggested something, people actually took notice because he had
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  Speaker 6: done these experiments on himself, because he'd come up with
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  Speaker 6: these revolutionary ideas. He was somebody that people thought, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to listen to this, So his advice was
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  Speaker 6: taken on board. Where people acted on it is another matter,
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  Speaker 6: but it was something that he was genuinely very respected
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  Speaker 6: for and well loved for.
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  Speaker 1: Jacqueline Magna is The Australian's europe correspondent. Thanks for joining
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  Speaker 1: us on the front. We'll be back right here tomorrow