Dr Una Coales
Read our interview with Dr. Una
The show’s presenter has so many qualifications, her full title looks more like a novel than a name: Dr Una Coales BA (Hons), MD, FRCS, FRCS (ORL), DRCOG, DFFP, MRCGP. Having seen her in action, it’s tempting to add the letters SCARY.
Dr Coales does not believe in mincing her words. She sees people every day who are killing themselves with simple overindulgence, and she’s had enough of it. As such, she’s more than happy being cruel to be kind – if she can get through to someone with her own scathing brand of tough love, then so be it. In Turn Back Your Body Clock, she harangues people for their expanded waist-lines and man-boobs, abhors their bad habits, shows them imaging of their own damaged internal organs, and presents them with their life expectancy to the year.
Dr Una Coales is a New York City surgeon turned medical writer for the Royal Society of Medicine, medical doctor and GP. She trained at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA and practised general surgery at St Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, a level-one trauma centre in New York City. She now works in South London as a GP and GP educator, teaching GPs to pass their UK licensing exam, and is a member of the board of the South London Faculty of the RCGP. Una is a regular commentator on medical issues and has been a medical expert and advisor on Channel 4’s The Fit Farm.
Tim Bean
Tim, a health club owner for 15 years, has implemented cutting-edge body transformation programmes. As a co-owner of the award-winning Institute of Physique Managements he has an impressive list of celebrity and international clients. When Tim was 26 and a half, he was 18 and a half stone, morbidly obese, a drinker with a diet providing no fresh veg just hi-fat take-aways and malnourishment. His cholesterol was 9.7 (extremely high), his mother was an insulin diabetic, his uncle had a triple heart bypass. Tim's doctor told him he was likely to have an imminent stroke or heart attack and was extremely likely to develop type II diabetes - he told Tim he wouldn't make 30. He's been there.