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