The doctor and television presenter Michael Mosley 67, was found dead in a rocky area on the Greek island of Symi, local authorities told Reuters on Sunday (9). He had disappeared this Wednesday after hiking.
“Night without end”, a BBC series presented by him that addresses problems linked to sleep, would begin airing on TV Globo’s “Fantástico” program this evening. The premiere was canceled after the death was announced.
Mosley presented series such as “Trust Me I’m a Doctor”, “The Truth about Exercise” and “Lose a Stone in 21 Days”, where he gave advice on diets and weight loss. His ideas were widely questioned for defending practices such as fasting and extreme calorie restriction.
Even though he graduated in medicine, the presenter did not practice the profession, having joined the BBC as a production assistant in 1985. In addition to starring in his own productions, Michael offered medical advice during the BBC programs “The One Show” and “This Morning ”, from ITV.
The diets he popularized generated buzz in the media. Among them, the 5:2 — detailed in the book “The 2-Day Diet” — which consists of eating just 25% of normal calories during two non-consecutive days over the course of a week, and the Fast 800 diet, which suggests eating of 800 calories per day, low in carbohydrates and including Mediterranean foods.
In 2021, he launched the series “Lose a Stone in 21 Days” on Channel 4 (“Lose 6.3 kg in 21 Days”, in Portuguese), where he selected five people to undergo a diet with extreme calorie restriction with the aim of to lose weight quickly.
The commotion generated by the dissemination of these ideas was so great that a British organization that helps people with eating disorders, Beat, expanded its opening hours to help people affected by Mosley.
Experiments even with snake venom
In addition to promoting ideas for increasing health in everyday life, the presenter underwent experiments to challenge the limits of the human body by recording for his program.
Among the tests were injecting snake venom into his own blood, exposing himself to tear gas, eating the hottest peppers in the world, introducing tapeworms into his digestive system and authorizing the filming of his colon exam.
In episodes of the program “Make Me”, shown in 2009 on BBC One, Mosley carried out experiments to test theories that he could become more intelligent, stay awake or delay aging.
Source: CNN Brasil
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