The Zoe App, Ozempic and Individualist Healthcare Won't Save You

The Zoe App, Ozempic and Individualist Healthcare Won't Save You

By tracking our blood glucose levels, harvesting our eggs and banking our collagen are we hacking the health system or are we contributing to the privatisation of NHS services and discrimination of chronically ill and disabled people? Who actually benefits from us following the inner workings of our bodies online? Will the horrors ever end? In this week's episode Ione and Gina are tacking our current obsession with making health a lifestyle choice.


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The Skin You're In: My Skin, My Reality With Maya Spencer-Berkeley

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Obsessions: Mae Muller On The Power Of Rihanna

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