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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Matthew Weaver

‘A human guinea pig’: how Michael Mosley made health a TV and radio hit

Michael Mosley
Michael Mosley wrote Four Weeks to Better Sleep after a 30-year struggle with insomnia. Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock

Michael Mosley popularised health by turning himself into a guinea pig for self-experiments on TV and radio. He ingested tapeworms for a documentary and then swallowed a camera to examine them wriggling around in his gut. Similarly he tried vaping, magic mushrooms, leeches and snake venom, all in the name of TV science.

After being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2012, Mosley, who had trained as a doctor, cured himself of the condition by intermittent fasting and captured it all on camera.

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