Maintenance Phase

Tracing the left-to-right political trajectory of the unfunniest man in British comedy. is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic Russell Brand And The Conspiracy Grift Russell Brand’s fellow travellers should defend their claims in court Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

The rags-to-riches tale of how an illegal methamphetamine manufacturer became a legal methamphetamine manufacturer. v. Wornick (S.D. Cal. 1999) Ephedra hearings in the US House of Representatives Expert Panel Finds Flaws In Diet Pill Safety Study Letter Urging a Criminal Investigation of Metabolife - Public Citizen Perspective; Regulation of Dietary Drugs Is Long Overdue No Limit, for Now, on a Dieting Supplement U.S. Bans Dietary Supplement Linked to Number of Deaths Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

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! Consumer survey The Effects of Pasteurization on Vitamins Lingering Heat over Pasteurized Milk How pasteurization improves safety Swill-Milk and Infant Mortality Alta Dena ( Court case 1, Court case 2, Alta Dena's raw milk history ) A Raw Milk Magnate Has Spent Years Fighting Public Health Agencies Should This Milk Be Legal? The Amish farmer who ignited outrage over raw milk Why Are People Promoting Raw Milk? The Quest for Raw Milk Some Raw Truths About Raw Milk Right Wing Commentators Are Pushing Misinformation How Raw Milk Went From Hippie to MAGA Here's why raw milk drinkers need to be concerned about bird flu Influencers promote raw milk Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

One blogger bravely pushes back against Starbucks, Subway and basic scientific facts. How the 'Food Babe' Makes Money Latest Food Scare: What Is The 'Yoga Mat' Chemical - And Why Is It In Your Food? Almost 500 Foods Contain The 'Yoga Mat' Compound. Should We Care? Are You Eating This Ingredient Banned All Over the World? The "Food Babe" Blogger is Full of Shit Are Microwaves Safe? Global Food Security Index 2022 Differences between EU and US nutrition labels go far beyond ounces and grams Is Food Really Better in Europe? Vani Hari: How She Grew Her Food Blog Into An Empire Food blogger asks Kraft to stop using dye in mac and cheese Meet the food blogger influencing RFK Jr. Food Babe blogger Vani Hari taking heat over health science Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

Why are you, as a man, afraid of sunflowers.

We’re talking about our first diet MLM and IT’S A REAL DOOZY! says Herbalife to pay $123.1 million to resolve China bribery case Herbalife announces new CEO to lead the L.A. nutrition company Clips! Mark Hughes' origin story Senate committee hearing Celebrity endorsement Former Herbalife Distributors Speak Out Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

Everyone agrees that processed foods are bad for you. When it comes to defining what they actually are, however, there is considerably less agreement. The issue is not food, nor nutrients, so much as processing Ultra-Processed Foods: Definitions and Policy Issues Examining the Nova Food Classification System and the Healthfulness of Ultra-Processed Foods A new classification of foods based on the extent and purpose of their processing Ultra-processed diets cause excess calorie intake and weight gain Why Is the American Diet So Deadly? Ultra-processed foods and mortality Association of ultra-processed food intake with risk of inflammatory bowel disease: prospective cohort study Academic and doctor Chris van Tulleken: ‘Ultra-processed products are food that lies to us’ Food addiction: a valid concept? The study of food addiction using animal models of binge eating Obesity and the brain: how convincing is the addiction model? Ultra-processed foods and cardiovascular disease: analysis of three large US prospective cohorts Sugar addiction: the state of the science The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food Premature Mortality Attributable to Ultraprocessed Food Consumption in 8 Countries Ultra-processed food intake and animal-based food intake Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

From our Patreon feed, we're catching up with RFK Jr. and his cadre of "Make America Healthy Again" influencers.

Meet the tech bro on a noble quest to double his lifespan, improve his productivity and irritate his waitress. as a hero. The field’s skeptics worry. The Bulletproof Diet is everything wrong with eating in America Bulletproof Coffee: Debunking the Hot Buttered Hype Buttered Coffee Could Make You Invincible. And This Man Very Rich Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

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!

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.

Before building his fitness empire, America’s most bedazzled fitness guru was a guy named Milton from New Orleans.

How a mother, a daughter and a crackpot Swiss psychologist gave us the world's most popular Buzzfeed quiz.

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: https://www.patreon.com/katelynburns Evan Urquhart: https://www.assignedmedia.org/support Erin Reed: https://www.erininthemorning.com/ Or organizations that work with trans youth in the UK: Gendered Intelligence: https://genderedintelligence.co.uk/ Mermaids: https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/ Stonewall: https://www.stonewall.org.uk/ Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

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! Here’s What They Say. Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

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!

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? He’s Also Fighting Jamie Oliver’s Legacy Has Jamie Bitten off More Than He Can Chew? Jamie Oliver, you haven’t tasted real poverty Jamie Oliver’s campaign against childhood obesity has classist undertones Jamie’s jerk rice is a recipe for disaster Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

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! vitamins: COVID misinformation roils the worlds of wellness and nutrition A Decisive Verdict on Vitamin D Supplementation Why were Twitter Users Obsessed with Vitamin D during the first year of the pandemic? Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It The Truth about Vitamin D and COVID-19 The Strange and Twisted Tale of Hydroxychloroquine Is Ivermectin for Covid-19 Based on Fraudulent Research? Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

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? Links: 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 doctors who prescribe Ozempic for weight loss Ozempic prescriptions can be easy to get online. Its popularity for weight loss is hurting those who need it most Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in patients with type 2 diabetes: real-world evidence from a Mediterranean area Semaglutide in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Obesity Real-world weight change, adherence, and discontinuation among patients with type 2 diabetes initiating glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in the UK Safety of Semaglutide Semaglutide for the treatment of overweight and obesity: A review Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adolescents with Obesity Semaglutide 2.4 mg for the Treatment of Obesity: Key Elements of the STEP Trials 1 to 5 Association of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist Use With Risk of Gallbladder and Biliary Diseases Real-World Adherence and Discontinuation of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients in the United States Medications and conditions associated with weight loss in patients prescribed semaglutide based on real-world data Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!