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Dr Michael Mosley shared concerns over dying ‘young’ like his father in final interview weeks before death

In his resurfaced final interview, the late Dr Michael Mosley confessed a fear of dying young like his own father.

One of the most heartbreaking things about Dr Mosley’s death is that a key motivation behind his research, which he shared through documentaries such as Eat, Fast and Live Longer, was a wish that himself and others would not die before their time like his own father had done. Dr Mosley shared that just like his father before him, he had found himself developing type 2 diabetes in his fifties, which acted as a wake-up call for him to begin overhauling his diet. Dr Michael Mosley was an advocate of intermittent fasting (Credit: BBC)“When my GP told me I should start medication, it shouldn’t have been a shock, because my dad had developed diabetes around the same age.

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