Diet Culture & Pyramid Schemes: MLMs, Herbalife, and the Vitamin That Started It All
Multi-level marketing was invented to sell vitamins. Not adjacent to vitamins, not eventually pivoted to vitamins: the first MLM in America was a 1945 alfalfa-pill company that got raided by the FDA w...
16 Sep 1h 17min
Is It Actually Your Cortisol? Cortisol Belly, Cortisol Face, and the Billion-Dollar Business of Blaming a Hormone
Support us on Patreon! Somewhere in the last few years, cortisol became the answer to everything. Tired? Cortisol. Puffy? Cortisol. Gained weight, lost sleep, can't stop scrolling? Cortisol. A hormone...
2 Sep 1h 14min
Are You Addicted to Exercise?
Support the show at Patreon.com/yourdietsucks"No days off" is a slogan, a t-shirt, and a diagnostic criterion, depending on who's reading it.This week: exercise addiction. Whether it's real, whether "...
19 Aug 1h 15min
Why Is Everyone Scared of Microplastics?
Support the show at Patreon.com/yourdietsucksThere is no plastic spoon in your brain (unless you put one there). There is no credit card in your diet. We regret to inform you that this does not mean e...
5 Aug 1h 15min
Why is Everyone Using Peptides?
BPC-157. TB-500. MOTs-C. If those sound like droids from a Star Wars spinoff, congratulations on your healthy relationship with the internet. For everyone else: peptides are the injectable wellness tr...
22 Jul 1h 9min
The Keto Diet
Support us on Patreon!Keto promised something no other diet could: cut the carbs, flip a metabolic switch, and burn fat without counting a single calorie. A magic loophole in human physiology. So does...
8 Jul 1h 31min
Are Seed Oils Actually Bad For You?
Join our Patreon!This is the most requested episode in two years, and the one strangers corner Zoë about the second they find out she hosts a nutrition podcast. Seed oils. Did they secretly poison the...
24 Jun 1h 9min
Why Am I So Hungry?
You were taught that hunger is a trick question. Before you're allowed to eat, you have to clear the suspects: you're bored, you're thirsty, you're emotional, you're just not disciplined enough. Somew...
10 Jun 1h 26min
