Breast Cancer UK

The B Well Club Podcast

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Wellness backed by science. Empowering you to build healthy habits to help you live a happier, healthier life. By doing this, you will be helping to reduce your risk of breast cancer.

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Breast Cancer UK

Episodes

S1 EPISODE 6 | Kristina Marusic: Are the chemicals we’re exposed to in everyday life increasing our risk of breast cancer? 14.06.2024 39:22

In this week’s episode of the B Well Club Podcast, Breast Cancer UK CEO Thalie Martini sits down with the author of her personal pick for Breast Cancer UK’s Book of the Year, award-winning environmental journalist Kristina Marusic. Despite advances in treatment and detection, breast cancer cases continue to rise across the world, but why? The findings of Kristina’s investigations point towards har...

S1 EPISODE 5 | Manisha Tailor MBE: What role can football play in improving health outcomes for women? 07.06.2024 34:05

The B Well Club podcast welcomes trailblazing football coach Manisha Tailor MBE. In this through-provoking conversation with Breast Cancer UK CEO Thalie Martini, the pair explore the UK’s dark history of excluding women from sport and the missed opportunities that this discrimination could have led to regarding women’s health. Alongside unpacking the systemic inequalities, the discussion also pee...

S1 EPISODE 4 | Jane Wake: Why women should keep exercising after 50? 31.05.2024 48:52

In this week’s episode of the B Well Club podcast, we’re talking all things heavy lifting! Breast Cancer UK CEO Thalie Martini welcomes world-renowned health expert Jane Wake to pick her brain on the benefits of weight training for women. The lively conversation also tackles the misconception that women shouldn’t exercise beyond menopause; covering everything from helpful exercise tips to fascinat...

S1 EPISODE 2 | Rob Hobson: How can ditching ultra-processed foods save us money and improve our health? 18.05.2024 29:57

This week the B Well podcast welcomes popular television nutritionist Rob Hobson to discuss all things food with Breast Cancer UK CEO Thalie Martini. The widespread availability of fast food, ready meals and ultra-processed has meant that there has probably never been a more difficult time to eat healthily. And it’s come at a cost to our health, with obesity-related illnesses on the rise. Rob sh...

S1 EPISODE 3 | Sabrina Pace-Humphreys: How do we create safe spaces for diversity in sport? 18.05.2024 42:16

In this week’s episode of the B Well podcast, Breast Cancer UK CEO Thalie Martini sits down with the inspirational founder of the Black Trail Runners Sabrina Pace-Humphreys. No stone is left unturned, as they unpack Sabrina’s upbringing as a Black mixed-race child in rural England, the circumstances that led her to alcohol dependency, and how trail running saved her life. But her work has only jus...

S1 EPISODE 1 | Lucy Webber: Could fixing the UK’s breastfeeding problem reduce the number of breast cancer cases? 18.05.2024 33:29

The first season of the B Well podcast kicks off with an insightful conversation between Breast Cancer UK CEO Thalie Martini and Lucy Webber IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant). Scientific studies have proven breastfeeding to be an effective tool to reduce breast cancer risk in mothers and children. However, the UK’s breastfeeding rates are amongst the lowest in the world, b...