‘Slow deep breathing changed my life’: Michael

Just One Thing presenter praised for health show that took in mental wellbeing, kindness and playing an instrument

‘He was a hero to me’: Michael Mosley’s friends and peers pay tribute

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.