When Life Gives You Lemons

Weight loss medications are everywhere right now. On social media, in celebrity culture, in GP surgeries and on unregulated websites. But what is the truth behind them and what are we not being told?

Dr Jack Mosley is a practising GP with a special interest in metabolic health and weight loss management, and the author of Food Noise, a book that cuts through the noise around GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro while offering evidence-based nutritional guidance for lasting weight loss.
Many of you will know his father, the late and much-loved Dr Michael Mosley. He was a broadcaster who popularised intermittent fasting, the 5:2 diet, and reversed his own Type 2 diabetes through diet alone. Jack is very much carrying that torch making complex health science feel genuinely accessible while forging his own compelling path in the world of metabolic health.

In this honest and genuinely eye-opening conversation, we cover everything from the science of food noise to the very real risks of muscle loss, the wild west of online pharmacies, and why the Mediterranean diet remains the most evidence-based dietary pattern we have.

In this episode:
What GLP-1 medications actually are and how they really work
The concept of food noise and why some people's is turned up louder than others
Growing up in the Mosley household - tapeworms, leeches, and kombucha by the dinner table
Why up to 40% of weight lost on GLP-1s can be lean muscle mass and why that is terrifying
The wild west of online pharmacies and who is really prescribing these drugs
Why weight returns up to eight times faster than conventional dieting once you stop
The link between GLP-1s and reduced alcohol consumption and smoking
Intermittent fasting and the debate around women and fasting
Why BMI is a terrible measure of health
The Mediterranean diet and what it actually is and why it works
Protein, fibre, and the simple habits that make the biggest difference
What losing his father has taught Jack about health, time, and what really matters

📖 Food Noise by Dr Jack Mosley - available now
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Rosie Nixon spent over two decades at the heart of the media world including being the Editor-in-Chief of HELLO!
But then, after hitting a wall, and experiencing a period of ‘burnout’ she did something brave…..she walked away from one of the most coveted roles in British media to reinvent herself entirely. She is now a qualified life coach, author of five books including her new book The Pro Method, and is founder of Rosie's Reinvention Retreats - a series of day retreats for midlife women navigating their next chapter.
In this warm and deeply relatable conversation, we explore burnout, identity, values, and what it really means to rewrite your own story.

In this episode:
· Two decades at the top of celebrity media - the royal weddings, the exclusives, and the Robbie Williams scoop
· How burnout crept up slowly and the hotel room moment that changed everything
· The link between perimenopause and burnout and why so many women miss it
· Why values are the foundation of everything and how to find yours
· The PRO Method - Pause, Reflect, Organise and why the pause is the hardest part
· Letting go of limiting self-beliefs and rewriting the stories that hold us back
· Rosie's Reinvention Retreats and the gap she spotted in the market
· The science of kindness and why it is genuinely good for your heart

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For generations, women have been told that painful, heavy periods are just part of life. That they are normal. That they should get on with it.
Dr Liz Murray is on a mission to change that.

A former NHS doctor, women's health activist, founder of the charity Mortal and Strong, and author of Not Just Painful Periods. In this conversation, Liz brings something rare in that she is both the doctor and the patient. Diagnosed with endometriosis, lupus, and connective tissue disease after years of dismissal, multiple miscarriages, wrongly advised IVF, and ultimately a hysterectomy in her early thirties, Liz knows this system from both sides of the consultation room.

And she is determined to make sure no other woman goes through what she went through.

In this episode, we have an important, honest, and eye-opening conversation about women's health that will leave you fully armed to advocate for yourself next time something just doesn’t feel right.

In this episode:

What endometriosis actually is and why it takes an average of nine years to diagnose
Liz's own journey from medical student in a wheelchair to a hysterectomy at 32
The multiple miscarriages, wrong advice, and £12,000 of IVF that should never have happened
The miracle pregnancy after clearance surgery and her rainbow baby
Why painful periods are not normal and what to do about it
Some truths about the contraceptive pill
The emerging link between neurodiversity, hypermobility, and endometriosis
How to advocate for yourself in a healthcare system that doesn't always listen
The Japanese art of kintsugi and why Liz built a charity around it

📖 Not Just Painful Periods - available now
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When Max Thorpe attempted to row 3000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean, the unimaginable happened.
On day nine, leading the pairs race and ahead of world record pace, a 40-foot wave capsized their boat. What followed was a fire in the cabin, a night barricaded in a storage space the size of a suitcase, and a rescue by a 110,000-tonne oil tanker that nearly killed them both. Max was separated from the boat in the middle of the Atlantic at night, in a storm, with nothing to hold onto. He survived by grabbing the last foot of a stepladder in the darkness.

He came home, processed the experience, and then unbelievably decided to go again.

Two years later, Max crossed that same finish line in Antigua - breaking the world record by just 14 minutes after 37 days at sea.

This is one of the most extraordinary stories of resilience, decision-making under pressure and the power of refusing to be defined by your worst moment that you will ever hear.

In this episode:
· Why a sporty kid with something to prove ended up rowing the Atlantic
· The nine days of brutal conditions before everything went wrong
· The capsize, the fire, and the night barricaded in a cabin the size of a suitcase
· Being separated from the boat in the dark and grabbing a rope with his last strength
· Coming home and deciding to go again and why
· The second row - breaking oars, rebuilding them at sea, and a two-hour sprint finish
· Breaking the world record by 14 minutes
· How facing his own mortality changed the way he lives

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Thomas Hal Robson-Kanu was on the path to becoming a professional footballer when at 15 years old, a tackle ruptured all his knee ligaments. After two gruelling surgeries and two years of rehabilitation, the club doctors handed him a prescription for painkillers and told him to get on with it. But his body rejected the painkillers and he was in agony every morning.

So Thomas and his father did something remarkable. They started researching. They looked at ancient cultures, Ayurvedic practices, herbs and spices used as medicine for centuries. They went on to create a homemade golden elixir from whole raw ingredients; turmeric, ginger, pomegranate, watermelon, that within six weeks left Thomas completely pain free for the first time in years.

What followed was a Premier League football career, an iconic goal at Euro 2016 for Wales and eventually, the founding of The Turmeric Co, one of the most exciting health drinks businesses in the UK.

But this episode is about much more than turmeric. It's about rejection, reinvention, purpose, and what the world could look like if we put prevention before treatment.

In this episode:
Two ACL ruptures at 15 and the surgeon who told him to find a new career
How his father's Nigerian grandfather, a herbalist, inspired the remedy that changed everything
The Premier League career nobody thought he would have and the iconic Euro 2016 goal
What professional football teaches you about rejection that most people never learn
Why reinvention isn't luck - it's a decision
The truth about the juice industry and why fresh doesn't always mean fresh
What the world would look like if the NHS put prevention before treatment
Why sugar is the biggest drug in the world

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