Michael Mosley was as much a beloved celebrity doctor as a trusted health professional, renowned for his revolutionary diet advice and unconventional, self-experimentation approach to health education. His career was spent challenging stale ideas, bringing his talents of wit, gusto and lateral thinking to testing theories that often seemed improbable at first — never dismissing or championing a claim without testing it himself. Time and time again, Mosley made himself a human guinea pig — whether by ingesting tapeworms, trying magic mushrooms, or, famously, fasting to cure his Type 2 diabetes — all in the name of science education.
Dr Mosley’s body was found on Sunday after a desperate four-day search was triggered when he did not return from a coastal walk on the Greek island of Symi on Wednesday. It is believed he succumbed to heatstroke during the walk. Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion.
Dr Mosley’s wife, Dr Claire Bailey, led tributes to her “wonderful, funny, kind and brilliant husband” who left an enormous legacy on health and science entertainment. Friends and fans paid tribute to the doctor’s knack for cutting through the “hocus pocus” of diet and medical information to improve thousands, if not millions, of lives with his bestselling books and top-rating TV, radio, and podcast series. Over his career, Dr Mosley learned and shared dozens of diet and lifestyle tips to audiences keen to improve their.
