EEK! Michael Mosley Missing in Greece

lack of phone is not at all strange we are not all joined to phones. I rarely take mine anywhere, only if going a distance in the car and only as a safety device.

So upsetting for his family and friends. So many of the public like and respect him. I do hope the mystery is soon solved and there is a good outcome. Keep thinking of him and checking the news. The Greek people we encountered were always helpful and kind and I am sure will be very involved and using their local knowledge.

It hit our news tonight for the first time. I hadn’t heard of him but apparently he had done a program about Australia. It doesn’t sound too good if he left his phone behind.

BlueBelle

I don’t know what MSM is so don’t think I ve pick anything up from them Calypso I just read a couple of mainstream accounts about him and thought he looked as if he was courting extremes means of proving a point but obviously I m wrong and you know much more
I stand by my feelings that anyone who would swallow tapeworms to prove a point is eccentric enough to walk out in the midday sun
But like all of you I think it’s tragic and hope he is found safely

MSM =Mainstream media.

You are perfectly entitled to your beliefs but victim blaming on a public forum is never a good look. Think of all those who made up stories about the Princess of Wales's illness before she was forced to make a public announcement about her cancer diagnosis.

I don’t really understand at which point he realised he didn’t have his phone. Some reports say he left it at home and went back to get it, some say he left it on the beach. Either was I’m very afraid that there isn’t going to be a good outcome to this. He’s someone that we all feel we know in some way and it brings back terrible memories of when Greatnan went missing.

This is extremely odd and even odder that he left his phone on the beach.
Did he forget his phone or was it deliberate?

“I also saw that the anorexia society was not happy with him 800 calories a day for life is very extreme “

It is for a max 12 weeks, not life

We all feel as if we know him which makes this so sad and also so very odd. I do hope that there is some news soon for the family.

And now of course there are searchers out in what will be very hot sun today so their families will be worried as well. At least they won't be hampered in their efforts by 100s of tourists as access to the island is fairly restricted and hopefully will be even more carefully restricted to avoid the island being overtaken by rubberneckers risking their own health and safety. I expect all the media vultures will descend.

I like and respect Michael Mosley, and found his diets to be successful. I do hope he is found soon, alive and well.
Huge worry for his wife and family at this time.

I love his programmes. He's interesting and a good presenter in my book. I do hope he'll return safely but the lack of his phone is rather strange........

BlueBelle

No it wasn’t meant as an unpleasant post Calipso as I said I don’t follow the man and don’t know anything about him so when I saw a ‘tv personality had gone missing’ I looked him up and there looked some very extreme stuff that he’s been using/ experimenting with call it whatever and that can lead to others following (injecting snake venom and tspeworms as experiments) I also saw that the anorexia society was not happy with him 800 calories a day for life is very extreme
Now that’s one side of it and I m sure from the posts on here he has some other methods that have worked brilliantly for people
What I was pointing out was that a person who took such major risks in medicine could easily have the belief that they would be fine in what others would see as a dangerous trek or walk that’s all
But as I said previously like everyone here I hope the outcome is a positive one although it’s not looking good is it

I'd stop digging NOW if I were you!

Yes the news isn’t good as time goes on and in heat wave too. I stayed on Symi for some weeks during the winter and spent new year on the island. It was very quiet then. It’s beautiful but rugged and we did a few recommended walks, but not coastal or rugged.
I hope the find him soon.

I don’t know what MSM is so don’t think I ve pick anything up from them Calypso I just read a couple of mainstream accounts about him and thought he looked as if he was courting extremes means of proving a point but obviously I m wrong and you know much more
I stand by my feelings that anyone who would swallow tapeworms to prove a point is eccentric enough to walk out in the midday sun
But like all of you I think it’s tragic and hope he is found safely

They have resumed the search for him this morning. It’s not looking good.

Yes I understood your post BlueBelle but you are picking out incorrect soundbites from MSM and misunderstanding them.

You say I also saw that the anorexia society was not happy with him 800 calories a day for life is very extreme

That is a complete misrepresentation of what the Fast 800 is about, but this is neither the time and the place.
People believe what they want to believe and don't let truth get in the way

Joseann

Isn't he an influential media doctor of sorts? I'm surprised he didn't have his phone on him at all times.
Very sad, and awful for his family. 🤞

He does a radio show called Just One Thing where he suggests things people can do to improve their health. Some of them are a bit eccentric (like walking downhill backwards) but they are backed up by science. He also advocates intermittent fasting and a low carb diet.

He was out in the heat of midday, which even locals said was unbearably hot, hiking over tricky terrain for what would apparently be a 2 mile distance, without his phone.

Very sad but I don't think it's looking good.

I hope he is found but being missing for so long in extreme heat does not bode well. When my husband was diagnosed with T2 diabetes a few years ago it was his low carb philosophy that helped us deal with it, it was reversed in three months and stayed that way so we have a lot to thank him for.

tbh I don't think it's looking good. I hope they find him but they think he may have fallen into the sea.

Isn't he an influential media doctor of sorts? I'm surprised he didn't have his phone on him at all times.
Very sad, and awful for his family. 🤞

No it wasn’t meant as an unpleasant post Calipso as I said I don’t follow the man and don’t know anything about him so when I saw a ‘tv personality had gone missing’ I looked him up and there looked some very extreme stuff that he’s been using/ experimenting with call it whatever and that can lead to others following (injecting snake venom and tspeworms as experiments) I also saw that the anorexia society was not happy with him 800 calories a day for life is very extreme
Now that’s one side of it and I m sure from the posts on here he has some other methods that have worked brilliantly for people
What I was pointing out was that a person who took such major risks in medicine could easily have the belief that they would be fine in what others would see as a dangerous trek or walk that’s all
But as I said previously like everyone here I hope the outcome is a positive one although it’s not looking good is it

Just hoping and praying for a good outcome. I’m following his low carb recommendations and have felt so much better, lots more energy, so I’ve a lot to be grateful to him for.

BlueBelle

As I said before I don’t watch daytime tv so don’t know the man who by this thread seems very popular but having read a brief synopsis he sounds a real risk taker Injecting venom into his body and eating tapeworms to see the outcome and his extreme 800 calories a day all fit with someone who thinks he is superior to all logic so it seems to fit with him believing he could walk in dangerous unknown terrain, in midday heat

I hope they find him for his and his families sake but looking as if this gamble was a step too far

I'm sure you didn't mean your post to sound so unpleasant BlueBelle
Maybe take a look at the good things he and his wife Clare Bailey have achieved in the field of medicine and wellness before dismissing him as a crank. What you describe as his "extreme 800 calories a day" has a sound evidence base.

Whatever has happened to him, I fear the outcome is going to be a sad one.

It was the first thought we had on waking and immediately checked for news on line. It’s very strange. Seems he might only have been 500ft away from his home after his last sighting. I even had John Stonehouse’s ‘disapperance’ come to mind just now. All speculation of course but how can anyone just … vanish?

karmalady

I feel very upset. He has taught millions of us so much in his quiet pleasant way. Not looking too good after missing for this length of time

I feel oddly upset too.

I agree about the risk taking thing. When I heard about it, even without knowing much about him, people who are in the public eye are often risk takers. That is how they got where they are in the first place.

Not that we know he did take a risk a couple of days ago.