Neuroendocrinologist Giles Yeo on Covid-19 and Obesity
Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday Life
English - August 14, 2020 13:11 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBFood Arts Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Giles Yeo is a neuroendocrinologist at the University of Cambridge with over 20 years experience researching brain control and body-weight (learn more). He speaks in this episode about the relationship between Covid-19 and obesity. As this research is unfolding, Yeo gives us some potential hypotheses and explains what data is still needed. He also points to the socioeconomic inequalities evident in the pandemic. [Note that this episode was recorded on May 29, 2020]