This week, Steve Brine chats with well-known health broadcaster Dr Xand Van Tulleken.

Xand is one half of the hugely successful What’s Up Docs? podcast he does for the BBC with his twin brother, Chris.

His new book, Make Me Well, takes on the increasingly confusing world of wellness: from supplements and health tests to wearables, DNA testing and the promise of a more personalised route to better health. So, what should we trust—and how do we tell useful advice from a promise that sounds too good to be true? The guys talk about why Xand wrote the book, how it’s been received, and whether he’s encountered pushback from the wellness industry.

They also get into our appetite for quick fixes, the role of health journalism, and touch on the new review into mental health, ADHD and autism through the lens of his recent appearance on the I'm ADHD! No You're Not podcast with Dr Mine Conkbayir and husband, Paul Whitehouse.

Oh and they consider whether Xand (and Steve) have their testosterone levels right.

This is a relaxed conversation about a subject that affects all of us.

Make Me Well is available via Penguin Books.

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Our guest this week is Kim Leadbeater, Labour MP for Batley and Spen.

We discuss why becoming a Member of Parliament was never remotely part of her life plan, what she thought her life was going to be and how, in 2016, what she describes as a fairly "normal" life changed forever when her sister - and predecessor, Jo Cox - was murdered.

Steve and Kim talk about their Commission on Loneliness and the why the Healthy Britain work she's pursuing says health isn’t merely what happens when somebody walks through the door of the NHS. The perfect guest for this podcast!

This was an emotional conversation and Kim opens up on why she's still angry and whether she believes in therapy. It's a conversation about life — and inevitably about death — but also about family, loss, resilience, health, politics (tennis) and what comes next.

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This week Steve Brine and the Prevention is the new cure podcast team bring a live episode from the HETT Show (Healthcare Excellence Through Technology) at ExCeL, London.

Richard Sloggett from Future Health Research and Director of Policy at The King's Fund, Siva Anandaciva, join for a lively discussion as the dust settles on a frenetic week which saw Andy Burnham's first Labour Party Conference as Prime Minister and his major focus on the creation of a National care service.

They consider what's new on this agenda and what it means for the wider Labour health agenda, the three shifts and the Ten Year Plan. They also discuss the National Commission on AI regulation in healthcare given they are located at a show surrounded by people promising that technology will transform healthcare. Is regulation still the problem — or is NHS adoption now the bigger obstacle?

And this episode features the first sponsored "innovation space" interview - with Carl Beech creator of BeachBand.

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