Maintenance Phase

What was missing from America's pandemic response? According to the internet, a sunshine vitamin, a malaria treatment and a whole lot of horse paste.

Thanks to Health Nerd (Substack) for helping us fact-check this episode! And thanks to Abby Mahler (Twitter,  Tiktok) for help with the research on hydroxychloroquine!

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Ozempic is being hailed as “the end of the Obesity Epidemic.” This week, Mike and Aubrey dig through the sensational claims. But will they make it past the caveats?

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• How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic 
• The Discovery and Development of Liraglutide and Semaglutide 
• Ozempic and Wegovy maker courts prominent Black leaders to get Medicare's favor 
• Insurers clamping down on...

How a plant-based pejorative went from an alt-right burn to a core concern of mainstream Republicans.

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• Joe Explains the Term "Soy Boy" to Donnell Rawlings
• Alex Jones Gay Bomb Rant
• Soyboys and Sensitivity: Mocking Meat Avoidance from Punc...

Join us for a 75 minute answer to a 5 word question: Is there mercury in vaccines?

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• Paul Offit’s “Autism's False Prophets”
• Peter Hotez’s “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science”
• Seth Mnookin’s “The Panic Virus”
• Jonathan M. Berman’s “Anti-vaxxers: Ho...

A political candidate has some questions and we have some extremely obvious answers.

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• Eric Garcia’s “We’re Not Broken”
• Mike and Sarah’s episode on autism and the anti-vaxx movement
• Seth Mnookin’s “The Panic Virus”
• Jonathan M. Berman’s “Anti-vaxxers...

Somehow an episode about an old-timey fitness influencer ended up being one of our most wholesome ever. We're as surprised as you are.

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• Pilates and the “powerhouse"
• Sick Architecture - Ibiayi Briggs - Body Culture and Contrology 
• World W...

How a fitness influencer went from small-time scammer to one of the Internet’s leading villains.

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• THIS IS DISTURBING
• goodbye for now… 
• How Dallas-area influencer Brittany Dawn found herself at the mercy of social media's double-edged sw...

The closing argument of our two-part Oprahsode starts in a Texas courtroom, wanders through some British slaughterhouses and ends with an emu. 

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• "How the Cows Turned Mad" by Maxime Schwartz
• “Deadly Feasts” by Richard Rhodes 
• "Mad C...

On April 16, 1996, Oprah Winfrey did a show about mad cow disease. Six weeks later, a couple of Texas cattlemen had a cow (sorry).

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• Original Lawsuit
• Appeal
• How Oprah Got Sued for Dissing a Burger
• Two Degrees of Speech Protection 
• Texas Cattle Feede...

This week we're digging into the weird  history of an omnipresent fitness goal. Episode comes free with a happy meal.

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• 10,000 Steps: A Brief History
• Do We Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day for Our Health?
• A Japanese first-mover in the fitness wear...

This week we're tackling three big ideas about sugar: It causes hyperactivity in kids, it's as addictive as cocaine and it raises blood sugar in universal, predictably spiky ways. 

Thanks to David Johnston for helping us with sources for this week’s episode!

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A viral documentary says a "whole foods plant-based diet" will prevent heart disease and cure cancer. But once we look into the MEAT of the matter will we find factual CREAM of the crop or will we  cry FOWL? (we're so sorry)

Thanks to Katherine Flegal for helping Mike with this episode!

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Aubrey tells Mike about the diet that took over New York City (and its bathrooms).

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• F-Factor drama timeline
• What Is the F-Factor Diet, and Is it Safe?
• Tanya Zuckerbrot Sets a Weight-Loss Example
• What Is the F-Factor Diet? Here’s What You Need to Know
• F-Factor...

Last month the American Academy of Pediatrics released a new set of guidelines for "childhood obesity." We have some comments.

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• The 2023 American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines 
• The 2007 guidelines 
• Pros and cons of bariatric surger...

History should make you feel weird and so, apparently, should diet books.

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• Elizabeth Takes Off
• Elizabeth: The Life of Elizabeth Taylor
• Elizabeth Taylor: Diet Tips on How to Become a Size 6
• Just Look at Her Now
• Elizabeth Taylor: Born to the P...

This week, we're talking about Aubrey's new book, "'You Just Need To Lose Weight' and 19 Other Myths About Fat People." And we're yelling about Piers Morgan as a little treat.

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Preorder Aubrey's book at your favorite b...

Charging disabled people more for health care is illegal. But what about ... charging non-disabled people less?

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• A Review of the U.S. Workplace Wellness Market
• "Wellness" Based Healthcare is a Scam
• 2013 Rand Report
• Workplace Welln...

In the 1990s, the Food Pyramid was one of the most recognizable symbols in nutrition education. But where did it come from? Why was it created by the agriculture department? And why did it tell us to eat a whole loaf of bread every day?

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