Podcast: Health for the unhealthy

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...

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...

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? 

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...

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...

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,...

Christian Karlsson, Chair of the Social Affairs Committee, explains his views on Swedish drug policy. Why do we have such harsh penalties for cannabis use when other countries are decriminalising? Are politicians proud of the snus that made Swedes become ...

How do Swedish exports affect the climate? Should we perhaps trade less with other countries for the sake of the climate? Astrid Kander is a professor at Lund University and researches how climate-impacting emissions can be measured more accurately. An important, and perhaps surprising, ...

In this episode, psychiatric patient Roger Lundgren and psychiatrist David Eberhard talk about mental illness and the role of psychiatry in our modern secular society. Has psychiatry taken over the church's role in supporting people's existential...

Roller skiing from Smygehuk to Barcelona or cycling across the American continent requires a good physique. This week the podcast is hosted by Fredrik Erixon who runs an adventure school. He talks about what it takes to succeed in both extreme physical...