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Speaker 1: Theaustralian dot com dot au. What happened to Dr Moseley?
Speaker 1: It's the mystery fascinating the world as a popular TV
Speaker 1: doctor dies on what should have been a blissful holiday
Speaker 1: in the Greek Islands. Today, the death and life of
Speaker 1: doctor Michael Moseley, who changed the way we talk and
Speaker 1: think about our health.
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 achieve
Speaker 2: an inner piece that does not depend on the outside
Speaker 2: 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, Mosley 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: Mosley 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, Simmi, 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, Doctor Michael Moseley Television for 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 shore, 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 5: The body was found just behind me in this incredibly
Speaker 5: steep and rocky terrain. It's close to the path where
Speaker 5: he was thought to have taken to a giamarina in Simi,
Speaker 5: but it's not an actual route down to the beach.
Speaker 5: It appears that he may have slipped over while making
Speaker 5: his way down.
Speaker 1: This is our colleague, journalist Ed Southgate of London's The Sun.
Speaker 5: Just this morning at around ten thirty. I was doing
Speaker 5: a piece to camera when an agitated barman alerted us
Speaker 5: to something behind that fence by pointing up. He began
Speaker 5: marching back to the Rasturan area as we looked over
Speaker 5: the wall and ourselves saw the body.
Speaker 1: Just before this, other journalists wi the island's mayor, 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 had seen turned out to be the sun glinting
Speaker 1: off Michael Moseley's wristwatch. In his piece for The Sun,
Speaker 1: Ed wrote, I froze. It was horrifying and incredibly overwhelming.
Speaker 1: I was hit by an intense shock and sadness. I
Speaker 1: felt sick and at several points I was on the
Speaker 1: verge of tears.
Speaker 5: This horrific discovery comes five days after doctor Mosey when missing,
Speaker 5: and huge questions are sure to follow over why search
Speaker 5: teams took so long to get to him and why
Speaker 5: he was ultimately found by a barman and then a journalist.
Speaker 1: Here's the barman, Ilias Zavarus speaking to Ed.
Speaker 6: They said to me, kay, go and check that pleasure
Speaker 6: over there. I was able to see him like really
Speaker 6: from paraway, so I went close to make sure that
Speaker 6: is I went close, I saw the body down there.
Speaker 5: And after you saw the body, what happened?
Speaker 6: Then I called immediately the guy who called me the owner,
Speaker 6: because he was with the cost guard. I said, you
Speaker 6: know what, from the body, come run run now.
Speaker 1: The Greek island of Simi is in the South Egan,
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, fucidities,
Speaker 1: Herodotus and Homer, who's twenty eight hundred year old epic
Speaker 1: poem the Iliad describes a handsome king, Nereus of Simi,
Speaker 1: setting sail with three ships to attack Troy, a city
Speaker 1: far to the north in what's now Turkey, to recapture
Speaker 1: Queen Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, who
Speaker 1: had been captured by the Trojans. Simi's economy is built
Speaker 1: on fishing and now tourism. Simi's big on destination weddings,
Speaker 1: where couples can marry in the island's antique stone churches
Speaker 1: or even the giant monastery of Saint Michael of Panormets,
Speaker 1: and after the ceremony. The happy couples come to Argia
Speaker 1: Marina for their receptions, and it's just here outside a
Speaker 1: wire fence, steps from the bar where Moseley's body lay.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Mosley's wife, Claire Bailey Moseley, released a
Speaker 1: statement in which she said how proud she was of
Speaker 1: the couple's four adult children, who'd rushed the island to
Speaker 1: join the surg She thanked locals, searchers and the media.
Speaker 1: He's doctor Claire Bailey Moseley's statement, as reported on Sky.
Speaker 3: News, she says, I don't know quite where to begin
Speaker 3: with this. It's devastating to have lost Michael, my wonderful, funny,
Speaker 3: kind 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 where he couldn't be easily seen
Speaker 3: 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: Nikolaus to walk back to Agia 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 4: Well, we know that about just over a kilometer from
Speaker 4: where he set off, he was seen at a cafe
Speaker 4: or walking past a cafe, and that was the critical
Speaker 4: juncture point.
Speaker 1: Jacqueline Magney is The Australian's europe correspondent.
Speaker 4: He should have turned left to go back to his accommodation,
Speaker 4: but instead he appears to have gone right and gone
Speaker 4: up a very steep, rocky mountain side. Now we don't
Speaker 4: know whether he got lost, whether that was intentional, or
Speaker 4: whether he was confused, whether he was suffering he'd exhaustion
Speaker 4: at that point, but he did walk past assistance. So
Speaker 4: the thought is that if he was in any kind
Speaker 4: of distress at that point, that he could have got help,
Speaker 4: but he's chosen or has gone up this very rocky,
Speaker 4: steep mountainside and then obviously has reached the top, maybe
Speaker 4: looked at the view, and then has gone down the
Speaker 4: 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 Moseley 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: this break. After qualifying as a doctor, Michael Mosley joined
Speaker 1: the BBC in the mid eighties as a producer, determined
Speaker 1: to use his medical knowledge to communicate with the world.
Speaker 1: But along the way, he made some confronting discoveries about
Speaker 1: his own health that changed his life dramatically. In his
Speaker 1: early fifties, Moseley was diagnosed with type two diabetes. He'd
Speaker 1: gained a lot of weight around his mid section, and
Speaker 1: he had a shocking realization he might be on the
Speaker 1: same path as his father, who'd been overweight and had
Speaker 1: also suffered type two diabetes. Moseley's father had heart failure
Speaker 1: and early onset dementia and died at seventy four. Mosley
Speaker 1: took up a Mediterranean diet, high protein, high in green veggies,
Speaker 1: and lots of healthy fats like olive oil. He also
Speaker 1: experimented with intermittent fasting, spending twelve or more hours out
Speaker 1: of every twenty four eating nothing at all. For some people,
Speaker 1: that's skipping breakfast or skipping dinner. Mostly's podcast, Just One
Speaker 1: Thing for the BBC focused on all the small things
Speaker 1: we can do to feel and be better, like eating
Speaker 1: dark chocolate.
Speaker 2: I have a seriously sweet tooth, so much so that
Speaker 2: I normally don't have any sugar retreats 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 2: Working out, I've been doing HIT high intensity interval training
Speaker 2: that HIT may well be the single best way to
Speaker 2: get the most benefit to act of exercise in the
Speaker 2: shortest amount.
Speaker 1: Of time and getting a better sleep.
Speaker 2: It'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 4: Well, he was very popular because he was quirky and
Speaker 4: he put himself out there. He used his own body
Speaker 4: as experiments. So he did this one bizarre experiment where
Speaker 4: he actually ingested tapeworms and had tapeworms in his body
Speaker 4: for six weeks to see the impact on the body
Speaker 4: that would have. Now that kind of shows how a
Speaker 4: little bit bizarre, a little bit off field he was.
Speaker 4: But he had a very engaging personality and he presented
Speaker 4: his theories and experiments in a very factual, engaging way,
Speaker 4: and so people loved him because he was just very personable.
Speaker 4: He was a voice that was respected. So if doctor
Speaker 4: Moseley suggested something, people actually took notice because he had
Speaker 4: done these experiments on himself, because he'd come up with
Speaker 4: these revolutionary ideas, he was somebody that people thought, oh, okay,
Speaker 4: I'm going to listen to this, So his advice was
Speaker 4: taken on board. Whether people acted on it is another matter,
Speaker 4: but it was something that he was genuinely very respected
Speaker 4: for and well loved for.
Speaker 1: Jacqueline Magna is The Australian's europe correspondent. Thanks for joining
Speaker 1: us on the front. We'll be back right here tomorrow.