The Relaxback UK Show

Back pain is a common, sometimes irritating and sometimes very serious problem. Sammy Margo is a physiotherapist from The Mind Your Back Expert Hub and gives some useful advice on the subject.

Low testosterone levels are surprisingly common. The symptoms can include just feeling tired all the time with less get up and go to more serious issues.

Social care is under intense pressure at the moment - hear from someone who runs a social care company and really knows the situation. Then a breast surgeon and a patient talk about breast cancer.

Listen to some tips on saving money at Christmas time with Patricia Bright. There can be a lot of packaging at this time of year which can be very wasteful and lead to a lot of plastic pollution. Lavanya Bhandari, founder of Ecoroots, is making packaging from fungi to help reduce this problem. 

The show starts with looking at ways to manage diabetes and how the life of diabetics can be made easier. Then it is the world of plastic surgery and the considerations to take before emabarking on it.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer for men - listening to this may just save your life

Dr Marieke Bigg looks at The Pain Gap which is what she calls the difference in time it takes men and women to get diagnosed. Then I speak to a pharmacist  on the different services available at the pharmacy.

Professor Nick Lemoine CBE was instrumental in conducting the important trials to find treatments and vaccines for covid 19. This is an account of an extraordinary time when amazing people were working to try and keep the rest of us safe. This is an amazing listen.

Coffee with additional benefits from London Nootropics and then hear from exhbitors at the OM Yoga Show in London

Dr Milli is a GP and has written a book on how to hack your hormones for a better life - Happy Hormones Happy You

Professor Greg Whyte is an olympian, sports academic, author, extreme athlete and coach for comic relief.  As such he is perfectly postioned to help people achieve things that they might have thought they couldn't do.

Hear the experiences of Eamonn Holmes and Janet Street-Porter with shingles - it is really worth avoiding if you can. There is now a vaccination. Then Dr Roger Henderson talks about skin and in particular excema and psoriasis.

Hear how to get free tickets for the OM Yoga Show and how heart valve disease can go undetected.

Tammy Adams is known as the Life Purpose Shaman and says she has lived many past lives which enables her to help people in all kinds if ways. She is definately a great guest.

I have high blood pressure - it is pretty common. This show looks at what it does to you, finding out if you have it and what to do if you discover you do. Then some odd pseudo scientific nutrition type cures. 

If you have ever had any kind of medical procedure overseas - dental, plastic surgery, tatoo etc there is a chance you could have hepatitis C. Then a look at how cancer treatments have improved life expectanct over the years.

Are you worried about your thinning hair? Thomas Forrester of Bargain Hunt was and decided to do something about it. Hear about his decision to go ahead with it, the actual process and if it worked for him.

Pathologists are a vital part of the medical world - find out exactly what they do and ways in which the shortage of pathologists can be countered using technology and AI. Then a shortage of carers and low pay are a care industry problem - hear how tech can help with this as well.

This show is from a couple of years ago but is one of my favourites - I spoke with Michael Edwards otherwise known as Eddie The Eagle.  He was a fantastic guest.

This is an old show but worth repeating. Paula Radcliffe, marathin runner shares how she keeps her children interested in being active and then Rachel Morris from the You Are Not A Frog Podcast talks about keeping positive at work.

Dr Andrea Furlan is a doctor who specialises in pain - she prescribes opioids when they are appropriate and helps people stop using them if they don't work for their pain anymore.

This method is in some ways a bit of a throw back to older methods - it gives small electrical stimuli to the brain. Then a hospital in Kingston, London is offering some free treatments to those who apply.

Hear how AI is being used to analyse proteins in blood prior to cancer forming - the objective is to make a simple blood test for early diagnosis. Then do you suffer from modern communication technology meaning your work can always contact you? Is that fair or healthy? Here are some ideas on what to do about it.

Hear the story how Ani had cancer twice and has produced an app to help those suffering the same sort of problems she experienced.

This is a show from a while ago but still very relevant - advice from Dr Hilary on how to keep healthy and happy when going on holiday. Also I speak with dietitian, Sophie Medlin, about the work she does, supplements, the difference between nutritionists and dietitians and a lot more.