Dr Michael Mosley, who is currently missing following a holiday hike on the Greek island of Symi, has made an enormous difference to countless lives over his long and fascinating career. Those who tune into his podcast Just One Thing, or read his various health and nutrition-related books, can't help but be inspired by his accessible approach to fitness, with the 67-year-old being passionate about helping others lead longer, happier lives. Many also love Michael on account of his boundless curiosity, with his many - often hair-raising - experiments pushing his body to the very limit in the name of science.
As the desperate search for Michael continues, the Mirror takes a look at some of the wackiest things the TV doctor has done for medicine...
In the 2011 documentary, The Brain: A Secret History, Michael actually went as far as having parts of his own brain shut off during a process known as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Footage from the BBC Four doc shows Michael struggling to move or talk as University College London's (UCL) Professor Vincent Walsh uses an electric current to interfere with specific parts of the doctor's very clever brain. At one point he can be seen struggling to recite London Bridge is Falling Down, while in another he stumbles as he tries to count.
Explaining what the sensation had felt like years later in a January 2024 article penned for the Mail Online, Michael recalled: "If the UCL team hadn't already done it on themselves dozens of times.
