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Nov 2021
27m 48s

Prediabetes, Experiments in zero gravity

Bbc Radio 4
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Beat pre-diabetes and get your love life back? We hear from two people who are trying to avoid getting type 2 diabetes. But not everyone thinks the term is helpful so our resident GP Margaret McCartney and Dr Samuel Seidu, from the Leicester Diabetes Centre, join us to discuss. And our cardiologist Rohin Francis gets one step closer to his dream of being an astronaut.

Presenter: James Gallagher Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald

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