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Maintenance Phase

Maintenance Phase

By: Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
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Debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams and nonsensical nutrition advice.© 2025 Maintenance Phase Hygiene & Healthy Living World
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  • Ultra-Processed Foods
    Jun 3 2025

    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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    • Nutrition and health. 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

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • BONUS: MAHA's First 90 Days
    May 1 2025

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

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    53 mins
  • The Bulletproof Diet
    Mar 26 2025

    Meet the tech bro on a noble quest to double his lifespan, improve his productivity and irritate his waitress.

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    • Mycotoxins Myth: The Truth About Mold in Coffee
    • Guidance for Industry: Action Levels for Poisonous or Deleterious Substances in Human Food and Animal Feed
    • You, Only Better
    • FTC letter to Dave Asprey
    • Alternative medicine fans see RFK Jr. 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

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    54 mins
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loved it. love every episode. presenters are wonderful and hilarious and you learn something new every time

my favourite podcast

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Funny, smart, and important, the duo addresses bad science and social attitudes based on bias rather than facts. A refreshing take that keeps growing on you.

Addictive, mind-blowing, intelligent: myth-busting at its best

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All kinds of interesting things you never knew about the founder of Pilates. Nothing controversial about the exercise method itself, just the interesting, amusing and sometimes strange history surrounding it. A great commute listen. Thank you.

Very entertaining - lots of fun facts

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