Ever wondered how much caffeine is too much? Or whether you’d feel better off if you took an afternoon nap? And with the rise in ‘day raving’ we’ll be looking at whether it’s better for your health to have your night out at 2pm rather than 2am. We’ll learn about the amount of caffeine in different drinks, looking at what it does to the body in the short-term and finding out more about what effects it can have when it comes to things like dementia and cardiovascular disease.
Then we’ll be following a strict scientifically-approved napping schedule and hearing what impact those bonus sleep sessions can have on brain function – while catching 40 winks in some unusual locations.
After that, we’ll take all that energy and party the afternoon (and early evening) away at a daytime rave to find out if that is better for our bodies than pulling an all-nighter.
Along the way we’ll be joined by people who know way more about these things than us, from a Spanish sleep whizz in Manchester to a body boffin in Barry Island.
Producer: Gerry Holt Presenter: Laura Foster Editor: Holly Squire Production Co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris
GP incentives; Walk-in CT scans; Hot Flushes feedback; New anti-coagulants
Private hospitals, Hyperbaric medicine, Sick day rules to reduce kidney damage, Warfarin
Sickness Absence, Ankle Arthritis, Hot Flushes, Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Ebola, Painkillers, Immunity (CVID), Integrated Health, Thyroid and Pregnancy
Antibiotics, Winter Flu, NHS Continuing Healthcare, Snoring
Conflict resolution in Ashya King case; GPs near work; Lipoedema
Conflicted Medicine: Public Health Campaigns
Conflicted Medicine: Specialists and GPs
Conflicted Medicine: Pharmaceuticals
HIV and MS; Black skin and cancer; Iron overload; Losing your sense of smell
Back pain and paracetamol, blood thinning drugs, drug driving, kidney stones
Statins, Cholesterol-lowering spreads, Olive oil, Diet and inflammatory bowel disease, Singers' nodules
Screening for Breast Cancer
Ebola, Bike saddles, Recording consultations, Insect bites
Statins; improving cancer survival rates; reflux and heartburn; recycling medicines.
Hospital patients dying of thirst; Paracetamol; Saturated fats; Baclofen and alcoholism
Video consultations, Low-fibre diets, Testosterone
Anti-virals for flu, Bod Pod test for body fat, Patients' weight, X-rays and cancer
Care of the dying, Birdsong in GP surgeries, Sex development
Stress and pregnancy, CBT for insomnia, Cluster headache, Smoking and mental health
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Good Mood Revolution
Global News Podcast
The Infinite Monkey Cage
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
You’re Dead to Me
Elis James and John Robins