
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
The team test the theory that you can use the weather to predict pain, separating science fact from fiction. It's an area with a huge amount of conflicting research, but one man who has investigated this is Professor Will Dixon, who explains that low pressure could be causing people's joints to ache more. Dara and Hannah are intrigued to hear our genes may also be responding to changes in temperature and hear how we might be pre-programmed to produce more inflammation during wintertime to fight off bugs - which has the unfortunate side effect of making other some conditions worse. But don't despair! The pair find out 21 degrees is the optimum temperature for health and wellbeing - a perfect English summer day.
Contributors:
Dr Chris Wallace
Producer: Marijke Peters
A BBC Studios Audio Production
4.8
716716 ratings
The team test the theory that you can use the weather to predict pain, separating science fact from fiction. It's an area with a huge amount of conflicting research, but one man who has investigated this is Professor Will Dixon, who explains that low pressure could be causing people's joints to ache more. Dara and Hannah are intrigued to hear our genes may also be responding to changes in temperature and hear how we might be pre-programmed to produce more inflammation during wintertime to fight off bugs - which has the unfortunate side effect of making other some conditions worse. But don't despair! The pair find out 21 degrees is the optimum temperature for health and wellbeing - a perfect English summer day.
Contributors:
Dr Chris Wallace
Producer: Marijke Peters
A BBC Studios Audio Production
5,431 Listeners
7,647 Listeners
524 Listeners
342 Listeners
2,121 Listeners
890 Listeners
285 Listeners
2,087 Listeners
1,040 Listeners
473 Listeners
239 Listeners
401 Listeners
4,821 Listeners
478 Listeners
633 Listeners
373 Listeners
135 Listeners
321 Listeners
2,954 Listeners
76 Listeners
94 Listeners
603 Listeners
1,001 Listeners
545 Listeners
609 Listeners
196 Listeners
119 Listeners
131 Listeners
278 Listeners
26 Listeners
76 Listeners
4 Listeners