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How Broken Is James Bond's Body?

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September 2021

Would 007 pass a physical ahead of new movie No Time To Die?

- Stephen Kelly

How Broken Is James Bond's Body?

After 25 movies in 59 years, it’s time for James Bond to make an appointment with a doctor. After all, surely a lifetime of dodging bullets, fighting villains, jumping off buildings and regularly drinking more cocktails than a Blackpool hen night cannot be good for you? We asked Carl Heneghan – a GP and professor of evidence-based medicine at the University of Oxford – to sit Bond down for his check-up.

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