Researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University are studying whether hot water immersion can ease peripheral artery disease, and a Stockport man in a trial reported better blood pressure and easier walking. The piece also explores how baths may offer both physical and mental wellbeing benefits.
Rhys Evans from Wales became the first person in the UK to receive a new gene therapy in 2001, as a baby who had spent his first year in a medical bubble. Now 26, he is living a full life and works as a sound technician in Minehead, and the treatment has since helped many other children. Doctors say it has now been given to 136 people with a range of illnesses since 2001.
Harry Kay, from Preesall in Lancashire, has kept weightlifting into his 80s, using television advert breaks to fit in repetitions at home. He says strength training has helped him lose weight, lower his high blood pressure and feel good, and he encourages others his age to give it a try.
John Morgan Jôb, who is 92, was surprised to learn from his smartwatch that he had walked the equivalent of 60 marathons in a year. He walks around 30 miles a week, six days a week, near his home in Llanfairpwll on Anglesey, and says walking lifts both his body and his spirits.
