111. The art of living a long and healthy life

Doctor Gustav Soler joins the podcast to get to the bottom of the concept of longevity. Soler explains how stress, supplements, drugs and sleep affect long-term health and how to measure biological age. We also find out if exchanging blood with...

110. Is 20 the new 70?

Professor Ingmar Skoog notes that people over 70 today are healthier and less depressed than 50-year-olds in previous generations. Skoog also says that today's 70-year-olds exercise, have sex and party more than previous generations, while today's...
Ephi organises seminar in Parliament with Astrid Kander

Ephi organises seminar in Parliament with Astrid Kander

On 31 January 2024, Ephi is organising a seminar in the Swedish Parliament on Astrid Kander's report on the topic of climate-impacting emissions and exports. Place: Riksdag Date: 31/1 2024 The seminar is organised together with Rickard Nordin from the Centre Party. Read Astrid Kander's report...

109 Population crisis or?

Author and podcaster Anna Björklund is the guest on this week's episode to discuss the declining birth rate in Sweden. How does it affect public health, and why are fewer and fewer people choosing to have children? 
Ephi launches new report on obesity and medicines

Ephi launches new report on obesity and medicines

Doctor Vincent Flink Amble-Naess will soon publish a report on obesity and medicines at Ephi. Flink Amble-Naess notes that effective medical treatment for weight loss is currently available. The only question is who should receive it and how it should be funded....

108. Kerstin Hesselgren - Prussian or liberal pioneer?

Journalist and writer Anders Johnson visits the podcast and talks about his book Kerstin Hesselgren - health care apostle and parliamentary pioneer. Kerstin Hesselgren was a prominent social liberal politician in the early 20th century and the first woman in the...

107. Is obesity a disease?

Doctor Vincent Flink Amble-Naess joins the podcast and notes that there are now effective medical treatments for weight loss. The only question is who is entitled to the medicine and who should pay for it? Instead of making it easy to get a medication...
Ephi welcomes Philippa Broom to the Ephi Advisory Board!

Ephi welcomes Philippa Broom to the Ephi Advisory Board!

At the Conservative Party conference in Manchester in 2023, Philippa Broom guides a diverse group of people: German ex-ministers, politicians from Mongolia, a deputy leader from Norway and a bunch of Swedes. There seems to be no one, either in the British...

106. What can you say about food and health?

What is the role of authorities in what we eat and drink? What claims can food producers make on their products and what can be said about health in social media? This is what Marie Söderqvist and Fredrik Torehammar discuss together with Jimmy Sandell,...
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