The Miracle | The Walkers Ep4
1/27/202639 min
Moth is suffering from a rare and terminal illness: corticobasal degeneration. Life expectancy rarely extends beyond eight years. But almost two decades after his diagnosis, Moth is still defying the odds. Has he discovered the secret to a medical miracle?
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First 90 secondsChloe Hadjimatheou· Host0:00
[gentle music] The Observer.
Raynor Winn· Soundbite0:05
"Moth, I have to tell you this. This is so important. I've been researching CBD, looking for the answer to why you were so well when we were walking, and why you're deteriorating so quickly now."
Chloe Hadjimatheou· Host0:26
It's the summer of 2015 in Raynor Winn's second book, The Wild Silence. The couple are living in the Cornish coastal town of Polruan, and Moth's been studying horticulture at university, but the sedentary lifestyle means his health is getting worse. The neurological condition he has means his memory's going, and he's losing weight and limping. In desperation, Raynor starts digging into medical papers, trying to understand why Moth's health was so much better when they took their massive walk along the southwest coastal path the previous year.
Raynor Winn· Soundbite1:04
"I showed him the research and made him read about patients with Alzheimer's who had undergone endurance training and had miraculously regained some cognitive abilities which doctors had believed were lost forever. Don't you see? That's what the path was for us, extreme endurance training. We were walking miles every day, carrying heavy weights, on a really restricted diet.