Science, Trust and Hope
As IPED (image and performance enhancing drug) and steroid use increases to a worrying degree, Dr Gavin Francis asks what would bring greater mental health to men in the UK.
As a perfect storm of the internet and the availability of IPEDs (Image and Performance Enhancing Drug) and steroids bring increasing challenges for men’s health, Dr Gavin Francis asks what it would take to find balanced health – and a more positive relationship with the desire to look fantastic.
Written and read by Gavin Francis.
Produced by Lu Kemp.
This is a BBC Scotland Audio production for Radio 4.
*ACTION LINE*The NHS website on anabolic steroid misuse can be found at: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/anabolic-steroid-misuse/
Gavin Francis is a GP and the author eleven books about medicine, culture and travel, including Sunday Times bestsellers Adventures in Human Being and Recovery, the Lost Art of Convalescence. His latest book, The Unfragile Mind explores the modern landscape of psychiatry, and calls for greater humility, curiosity and kindness in the way society approaches mental illness - it has been shortlisted for the Saltire Book Award. He’s a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books, and his books have been translated into twenty languages.
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- Fri 20 Nov 202611:45BBC Radio 4
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