Maintenance Phase
Debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams and nonsensical nutrition advice.
Episodes
We're joined by Mike's If Books Could Kill co-host to revisit a biohacking diet book for the boys.
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What do you do when you've flamed out as a Hollywood actor, a political commentator and a wellness guru? You make a YouTube channel.
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Tracing the left-to-right political trajectory of the unfunniest man in British comedy.
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The rags-to-riches tale of how an illegal methamphetamine manufacturer became a legal methamphetamine manufacturer.
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Once widely banned, raw milk consumption is on the rise and states are repealing their bans. No one’s happier about that than the far right. How did we get here?
NOTE: In the retelling of Pasteur’s early pasteurization, Aubrey misspoke! The culprit wasn’t lactic yeast, it was lactic acid bacteria. Sorry for the slip up!
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One blogger bravely pushes back against Starbucks, Subway and basic scientific facts.
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Why are you, as a man, afraid of sunflowers.
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We’re talking about our first diet MLM and IT’S A REAL DOOZY!
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Everyone agrees that processed foods are bad for you. When it comes to defining what they actually are, however, there is considerably less agreement.
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From our Patreon feed, we're catching up with RFK Jr. and his cadre of "Make America Healthy Again" influencers.
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Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!
Meet the tech bro on a noble quest to double his lifespan, improve his productivity and irritate his waitress.
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The places where humans live the longest are explained by traditional lifestyles, widespread incest or systematic fraud, there is no fourth option.
Thanks to Catherine MacDonald for helping us research and fact-check this episode!
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Because we live in hell, here is last month's bonus episode about RFK Jr.'s presidential campaign with a new intro about what he could do at HHS.
See you next year!
The internet gets weird investigating the "disappearance" of America's gay best friend.
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Before building his fitness empire, America’s most bedazzled fitness guru was a guy named Milton from New Orleans.
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How a mother, a daughter and a crackpot Swiss psychologist gave us the world's most popular Buzzfeed quiz.
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We went a little easy on the Cass Report in our last main feed episode, so we're back to [Mortal Kombat voice] FINISH HIM!!!
This was supposed to be a Patreon bonus episode but we'd rather you support the lovely trans people who helped us with the research and fact-checking of this episode!
Julia Serano: https://www.patreon.com/juliaserano
Parker Molloy: https://www.readtpa.com/
Katelyn Burns: h...
Thanks to Jules Gill-Peterson (jgillpeterson.com) and Julia Serano (patreon.com/juliaserano) for help researching this episode and Evan Urquhart, Parker Molloy and Katelyn Burns for fact-checking!
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Thanks to Jules Gill-Peterson (jgillpeterson.com) and Julia Serano (patreon.com/juliaserano) for help researching this episode and Evan Urquhart and Parker Molloy for fact-checking!
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- Watch Aubrey's documentary
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In the 2000s, Jamie Oliver made a big splash with his work reforming kids’ meals in the UK and US. Was his work wicked slammin’, or just proper rustic?
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