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Living in a Bacterial World

Exploring our microbial metropolis - and is being clean important for good health?

• 28 mins

Bladder, bowels and sex: Learning to live after my mountain accident

Niall McCann on navigating the ups and downs of life with a spinal cord injury.

• 28 mins

Speedy medicine, and is fermented food good for us?

We meet the medics treating people in unusual places, and we talk all things fermented.

• 28 mins

A guide to the perimenopause

How to prepare for the perimenopause and why it鈥檚 not all bad.

• 28 mins

Why recovering from long Covid is a lot like training for the Olympics

We visit the first long Covid clinic to find out what we've learnt about the condition.

• 28 mins

Coffee, nap, rave, repeat...

We discuss how much caffeine is too much, whether you need a nap and day-time raving.

• 28 mins

Can noise harm our health?

We head into the lab to find out how unwanted sound can affect the body and brain.

• 27 mins

Is intermittent fasting good for you?

From weight loss to prolonging life, James Gallagher investigates trending fast diets

• 27 mins

We go on a tick hunt

James goes looking for ticks and asks how worried should we be about them.

• 27 mins

Can insomnia be fixed?

We're joined by a panel of experts to answer your questions on insomnia.

• 27 mins

Are more young people getting cancer?

Following the Princess of Wales鈥檚 diagnosis, we look at disease rates in people under 50.

• 27 mins

What does alcohol do to the body and brain?

James visits the pub to find out what happens when he drinks two pints of lager.

• 27 mins

Is watching sport good for you?

James monitors the physical ups and downs of watching the Euros final in an experiment.

• 27 mins

How can we age well?

James and the Hay Festival audience try to conquer ageing, guided by a panel of experts.

• 27 mins

Can diet and exercise ever replace statins?

Plus, sunburn remedies and how snus might enhance sporting performance

• 28 mins

What should we do about vaping?

Is vaping a tool to quit smoking or a gateway to starting? And why verrucas won't budge.

• 27 mins

Mpox, your statins questions and tick-borne meat allergies

Mpox is classed a public health emergency, statins questions and tick-borne meat allergies

• 28 mins

Cancer vaccine trials and planning for cyber attacks

We meet a patient on a revolutionary cancer vaccine trial, plus planning for cyber attacks

• 28 mins

Changing the lives of children with rare genetic diseases

How gene analysis is impacting treatment and care for children with rare genetic disorders

• 28 mins

How does embarrassment affect your health?

And what can doctors and the NHS do to help alleviate the problem.

• 28 mins

Focus on the breath

Could adjusting your breathing improve your health?

• 28 mins

What next for Alzheimer's treatment?

The first drugs to slow Alzheimer's progression won't be offered on the NHS. What's next?

• 27 mins

Olympian Sir Chris Hoy wants more tests for prostate cancer - should it happen?

Following a terminal cancer diagnosis, Chris wants more testing. We debate the evidence.

• 27 mins