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Speaker 1: now at the Australian dot com dot au. It's six
Speaker 1: months since the world lost Michael Moseley, the English doctor
Speaker 1: who changed the way many of us eat, exercise and live.
Speaker 1: Today we look at the life and death of this
Speaker 1: remarkable man. This episode was originally aired in June. We'll
Speaker 1: be back with all new episodes of The Front on
Speaker 1: January eleven.
Speaker 2: Life comes at us fast, thoughts and ideas, hopes and worries.
Speaker 2: It is all too easy to get caught up in
Speaker 2: the whirlwind.
Speaker 1: This is the voice of doctor Michael Moseley, a sixty
Speaker 1: seven year old British medico and TV presenter who devoted
Speaker 1: his life to making other people feel better.
Speaker 2: But deep with them, we do have the capacity to
Speaker 2: achieve an inner piece that does not depend on the
Speaker 2: outside world or on anyone else.
Speaker 1: Deep Calm is one of Moseley's podcasts, part of a
Speaker 1: suite of thoughtful, inspiring shows he made for the BBC
Speaker 1: and other broadcasters including SBS Australia, synthesizing his medical training
Speaker 1: and appetite for knowledge with a gift for simply communicating
Speaker 1: big ideas about everything from diet to sleep. In that
Speaker 1: podcast episode you heard, Moseley was explaining the latest research
Speaker 1: on the science of how our brains process images of
Speaker 1: the natural world to ease us stress.
Speaker 2: This activates your body's relaxation response, slowing your heart rate,
Speaker 2: lowering your blood pressure, and via the release of calming
Speaker 2: neurotransmitters in the brain, lifting your mood.
Speaker 1: Moseley was trusted and liked. That's why. Over the past
Speaker 1: five days, the world has been gripped by the story
Speaker 1: of Moseley's disappearance on a Greek island, Sinny, where he
Speaker 1: was holidaying with his wife Claire, after he decided to
Speaker 1: take a walk in nature.
Speaker 3: Doctor Michael Moseley.
Speaker 2: Doctor Michael Moseley.
Speaker 3: Television doctor Michael Moseley.
Speaker 4: It's believed the body of doctor Michael Moseley has been found.
Speaker 1: Over five days, an immense search of air land and
Speaker 1: sea took place. Emergency services tourists and the island's locals
Speaker 1: searched cliffs, the rocky shure, the ocean and the bleak
Speaker 1: terrain above, but all along Moseley was right there, just
Speaker 1: out of sight, about ten or fifteen meters from the resort.
Speaker 4: The body was found just behind me in this incredibly
Speaker 4: steep and rocky terrain, and it's close to the path
Speaker 4: where he was thought to have taken to Agia Marina
Speaker 4: in Simi, but it's not an actual route down to
Speaker 4: the beach. It appears that he may have slipped over
Speaker 4: while making his way down.
Speaker 1: This is our colleague, journalist ed Southgate of London's The.
Speaker 4: Sun, just this morning at around ten thirty. I was
Speaker 4: doing a piece to camera when an agitated barman alerted
Speaker 4: us to something behind that fence by pointing up. He
Speaker 4: began marching back to the Russian area as we looked
Speaker 4: over the wall and ourselves saw the body.
Speaker 1: Just before this, other journalists with the Island's Mare in
Speaker 1: a boat had seen something shining on the rocky slope
Speaker 1: and had called the barman to alert him. The brightness
Speaker 1: they'd seen turned out to be the sun glinting off
Speaker 1: Michael Moseley's wristwatch. In his piece for The Son, Ed wrote,
Speaker 1: I froze. It was horrifying and incredibly overwhelming. I was
Speaker 1: hit by an intense shock and sadness. I felt sick
Speaker 1: and at several points I was on the verge of tears.
Speaker 4: This horrific discovery comes five days after Dr Masey went missing,
Speaker 4: and huge questions are sure to follow over why search
Speaker 4: teams took so long to get to him and why
Speaker 4: he was ultimately found by a barman and then a journalist.
Speaker 1: Here's the barman, Ilias Zavares speaking to Ed.
Speaker 5: They said to me, k go and check that pleasure
Speaker 5: over there. I was able to see him, like really
Speaker 5: from paraway, so I went close to make sure that
Speaker 5: he and I went close. I saw the body down there.
Speaker 4: And after you saw the body, what happened?
Speaker 5: Then? I called immediately the guy who called me the
Speaker 5: owner because he was with the cost guard. I said,
Speaker 5: you know what I found the body, Come run run now.
Speaker 1: The Greek island of Simi is in the South Aegean,
Speaker 1: part of the Dodecanese chain of islands close to Turkey.
Speaker 1: Simi is mentioned by many of the giants of ancient history, Fucydides, Herodotus,
Speaker 1: and Homer, whose twenty eight hundred year old epic ponn
Speaker 1: the Iliad describes a handsome king Nereus of Simi, setting
Speaker 1: sail with three ships to attack Troy, a city far
Speaker 1: to the north in what's now Turkey, to recapture Queen Helen,
Speaker 1: the most beautiful woman in the world, who had been
Speaker 1: captured by the Trojans. Simi's economy is built on fishing
Speaker 1: and now tourism. Simi's big on destination weddings, where couples
Speaker 1: can marry in the island's antique stone churches or even
Speaker 1: the giant monastery of Saint Michael of Panometis. And after
Speaker 1: the ceremony, the happy couples come to Argia Marina for
Speaker 1: their rescis. And it's just here outside a wire fence,
Speaker 1: steps from the bar where Moseley's body lay. Over the weekend,
Speaker 1: Mosley's wife, Claire Bailey Mosley, released a statement in which
Speaker 1: she said how proud she was of the couple's four
Speaker 1: adult children, who'd rushed to the island to join the search.
Speaker 1: She thanked locals, searches and the media. Here's doctor Claire
Speaker 1: Bailey Mosley's statement. As reported on Sky News.
Speaker 3: She says, I don't know quite where to begin with this.
Speaker 3: It's devastating to have lost Michael, my wonderful, funny, kind
Speaker 3: and brilliant husband. We had an incredibly lucky life together.
Speaker 3: We loved each other very much and were so happy together.
Speaker 3: We're taking comfort in the fact that he so very
Speaker 3: nearly made it. He did an incredible climb, took the
Speaker 3: wrong route and collapsed just where he couldn't be easily
Speaker 3: seen by the extensive search team.
Speaker 1: She was with Michael Moseley at one thirty pm local
Speaker 1: time on Wednesday, when he left the beach at Agios
Speaker 1: Nikolas to walk back to Ardia Marina, where they were staying.
Speaker 1: About twenty minutes after leaving the beach, CCTV captured him
Speaker 1: halfway to his destination, walking through the town of Petty,
Speaker 1: striding out confidently, shaded by his umbrella. The rest of
Speaker 1: the walk should have taken Moseley between ten minutes and
Speaker 1: half an hour, but it seems he ended up doing
Speaker 1: a much more arduous hike than he'd planned.
Speaker 6: Well, we know that about just over a kilometer from
Speaker 6: where he set off, he was seen at a cafe
Speaker 6: or walking past a cafe and that was the critical
Speaker 6: juncture point.
Speaker 1: Jacqueline Magney is The Australian's europe correspondent.
Speaker 6: He should have turned left to go back to his accommodation,
Speaker 6: but instead he appears to have gone right and gone
Speaker 6: up a very steep, rocky mountain side. Now we don't
Speaker 6: know whether he got lost, whether that was intentional, or
Speaker 6: whether he was confused, whether he was suffering. He'd exhaustion
Speaker 6: at that point, but he did walk past assistance. So
Speaker 6: the thought is that if he was in any kind
Speaker 6: of distress at that point, that he could have got help,
Speaker 6: but he's chosen or has gone up this very rocky,
Speaker 6: steep mountain side and then obviously has reached the top,
Speaker 6: maybe looked at the view, and then has gone down
Speaker 6: the other side to where this marina is.
Speaker 1: He didn't have a mobile phone with him, and his
Speaker 1: increasingly frantic wife raised the alarm that afternoon. Initial reports
Speaker 1: from local police suggest Mosley died several days before he
Speaker 1: was found on Sunday local time, and his backpack was
Speaker 1: located several meters above him on the slope down to
Speaker 1: the water. That's led to speculation he slipped, possibly after
Speaker 1: a medical episode of some kind coming up Michael Moseley's
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Speaker 1: After qualifying as a doctor, Michael Mosley joined the BBC
Speaker 1: in the mid eighties as a producer, determined to use
Speaker 1: his medical knowledge to communicate with the world, but along
Speaker 1: the way he made some confronting discoveries about his own
Speaker 1: health that changed his life dramatically. In his early fifties,
Speaker 1: Moseley was diagnosed with type two diabetes. He'd gained a
Speaker 1: lot of weight around his midsection, and he had a
Speaker 1: shocking realization he might be on the same part as
Speaker 1: his father, who'd been overweight and had also suffered type
Speaker 1: two diabetes. Mosley's father had heart failure and early onset
Speaker 1: dementia and died at seventy four. Mosley took up a
Speaker 1: Mediterranean diet, high protein, high in green veggies, and lots
Speaker 1: of healthy fats like olive oil. He also experimented with
Speaker 1: intimittent fasting, spending twelve or more hours out of every
Speaker 1: twenty four eating nothing at all. For some people, that's
Speaker 1: skipping breakfast or skipping dinner. Mosley's podcast Just One Thing
Speaker 1: for the BBC focused on all the small things we
Speaker 1: can do to feel and be better, like eating dark chocolate.
Speaker 2: I have a seriously sweet tooth, so much so that
Speaker 2: I normally don't have any sugary treats in the house
Speaker 2: because I know I'll just eat them. But today I
Speaker 2: am allowing myself just one thing that should not only
Speaker 2: satisfy my cravings, but may even lure my blood pressure,
Speaker 2: improve my cardiovascular health, and perhaps even boost my brain.
Speaker 1: Working out, I've.
Speaker 2: Been doing HIT high intensity interval training. Now HIT may
Speaker 2: well be the single best way to get the most
Speaker 2: benefit act of exercise in the shortest amount.
Speaker 1: Of time and getting a better sleep.
Speaker 2: He's only ten o'clock in the evening, but I'm already
Speaker 2: beginning to wind down and get ready for bed.
Speaker 1: Here's Jacqueline Magne.
Speaker 6: Well, he was very popular because he was quirky and
Speaker 6: he put himself out there. He used his own body
Speaker 6: as experiments. So he did this one bizarre experiment where
Speaker 6: he actually ingested tapeworms and had tapeworms in his body
Speaker 6: for six weeks to see the impact on the body
Speaker 6: that would have. Now that kind of shows how a
Speaker 6: little bit bizarre, a little bit off field he was.
Speaker 6: But he had a very engaging personality and he presented
Speaker 6: his theories and experiments in a very factual, engaging way,
Speaker 6: and so Paul loved him because he was just very personable.
Speaker 6: He was a voice that was respected. So if doctor
Speaker 6: Moseley suggested something, people actually took notice because he had
Speaker 6: done these experiments on himself, because he'd come up with
Speaker 6: these revolutionary ideas, he was somebody that people thought, Okay,
Speaker 6: I'm going to listen to this, So his advice was
Speaker 6: taken on board. Where the people acted on it is
Speaker 6: another matter, but it was something that he was genuinely,
Speaker 6: very respected for and well loved for.
Speaker 1: Jacqueline Magney is The Australian's europe correspondent. Thanks for joining
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