Stay Young - with Michael Mosley

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In his last interview, How to Live a Good Life, Michael Mosley talks to Prof Paul Bloom.

If time is tight, what's the one thing that you should be doing to improve your health and wellbeing? Michael Mosley reveals surprisingly simple top tips that are scientifically proven to change your life.

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How strength training can improve your waistline and brain, and help you live younger.

Michael explores how strength training can benefit your waistline, you brain and even help you live longer.

Michael explores the best way to help you look younger as well as live longer and healthier – revealing how strength training can benefit your waistline, preserve muscle fibres and increase healthy lifespan.

Pumping up your muscles is one of the best ways to protect from the ravages of time and injury. In this episode, Michael speaks to Professor Abigail Mackey from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, to find out how resistance training can strengthen the connection between your brain and muscles, and keep them looking younger at the cellular level. And it’s not just your muscles that benefit, maintaining your muscle mass can boost your brain function, improve sleep, and significantly reduce your risk of diabetes. It may even be better at reducing belly fat than cardio! Champion weight-lifter Shirley Webb reveals how lifting weights transformed her life and mobility even though she only started pumping irons in her mid-70s. 
 
Producer: Catherine Wyler
Assistant Producer: Gulnar Mimaroglu 
Executive Producer: Zoe Heron
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Michael reveals ways you can stay young by rejuvenating yourself from the inside out.

Michael Mosley looks at the latest research into how to stay young, and each episode reveals one simple thing you can start doing today to rejuvenate yourself from the inside out.

We all want to live life to the fullest - feeling and looking our best. But over time, things can start to sag. So what's the best way to stop the clock and keep that youthful glow and energy? Michael Mosley looks at the latest research into how to stay young and each episode he reveals one simple, scientifically-proven thing you can start doing today to rejuvenate yourself from the inside out.

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