<p>Everyone agrees that processed foods are bad for you. When it comes to defining what they actually are, however, there is considerably less agreement. <br><br></p><p><b>Support us:</b></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Hear bonus episodes on Patreon</a></li><li><a href="https://www.yrfatfriendfilm.com/">Watch Aubrey's documentary</a></li><li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/you-just-need-to-lose-weight-and-19-other-myths-about-fat-people-aubrey-gordon/18405362?ean=9780807006474">Buy Aubrey's book</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id1651876897">Listen to Mike's other podcast</a></li><li><a href="http://tee.pub/lic/maintenancephase">Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p><b>Links!</b></p><ul><li><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19366466/">Nutrition and health. The issue is not food, nor nutrients, so much as processing</a></li><li><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6389637/">Ultra-Processed Foods: Definitions and Policy Issues</a></li><li><a href="https://www.eatrightpro.org/news-center/practice-trends/examining-the-nova-food-classification-system-and-healthfulness-of-ultra-processed-foods">Examining the Nova Food Classification System and the Healthfulness of Ultra-Processed Foods</a></li><li><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21180977/">A new classification of foods based on the extent and purpose of their processing</a></li><li><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31105044/">Ultra-processed diets cause excess calorie intake and weight gain</a></li><li><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/13/why-is-the-american-diet-so-deadly">Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?</a></li><li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002916522105241?via=ihub#appsec1">Ultra-processed foods and mortality</a></li><li><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8279036/">Association of ultra-processed food intake with risk of inflammatory bowel disease: prospective cohort study</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/19/academic-and-doctor-chris-van-tulleken-ultra-processed-products-are-food-that-lies-to-us">Academic and doctor Chris van Tulleken: ‘Ultra-processed products are food that lies to us’</a></li><li><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6224546/">Food addiction: a valid concept?</a></li><li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195666310005088?via=ihub">The study of food addiction using animal models of binge eating</a></li><li><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22414944/">Obesity and the brain: how convincing is the addiction model?</a></li><li><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11403639/">Ultra-processed foods and cardiovascular disease: analysis of three large US prospective cohorts</a></li><li><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27372453/">Sugar addiction: the state of the science</a></li><li><a href="https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/the-plastic-chemicals-hiding-in-your-food-a7358224781/">The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food</a></li><li><a href="https://www.ajpmonline.org/action/showPdf?pii=S0749-3797(25)00072-8">Premature Mortality Attributable to Ultraprocessed Food Consumption in 8 Countries</a></li><li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002916522002842?via=ihub">Ultra-processed food intake and animal-based food intake</a> </li></ul><p>Thanks to <a href="https://freesound.org/people/Doctor_Dreamchip/">Doctor Dreamchip</a> for our lovely theme song!</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Support the show</a></p>
1h 11m
BONUS: MAHA's First 90 Days
<p>From our Patreon feed, we're catching up with RFK Jr. and his cadre of "Make America Healthy Again" influencers.</p><p><b>Support us:</b></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Hear bonus episodes on Patreon</a></li><li><a href="https://www.yrfatfriendfilm.com/">Watch Aubrey's documentary</a></li><li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/you-just-need-to-lose-weight-and-19-other-myths-about-fat-people-aubrey-gordon/18405362?ean=9780807006474">Buy Aubrey's book</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id1651876897">Listen to Mike's other podcast</a></li><li><a href="http://tee.pub/lic/maintenancephase">Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more</a></li></ul><p>Thanks to <a href="https://freesound.org/people/Doctor_Dreamchip/">Doctor Dreamchip</a> for our lovely theme song!</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Support the show</a></p>
53m
The Bulletproof Diet
<p>Meet the tech bro on a noble quest to double his lifespan, improve his productivity and irritate his waitress. </p><p><b>Support us:</b></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Hear bonus episodes on Patreon</a></li><li><a href="https://www.yrfatfriendfilm.com/">Watch Aubrey's documentary</a></li><li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/you-just-need-to-lose-weight-and-19-other-myths-about-fat-people-aubrey-gordon/18405362?ean=9780807006474">Buy Aubrey's book</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id1651876897">Listen to Mike's other podcast</a></li><li><a href="http://tee.pub/lic/maintenancephase">Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more</a></li></ul><p><b>Links!</b></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/the-mycotoxins-in-coffee-myth#safe-production-methods">Mycotoxins Myth: The Truth About Mold in Coffee</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/guidance-industry-action-levels-poisonous-or-deleterious-substances-human-food-and-animal-feed#afla">Guidance for Industry: Action Levels for Poisonous or Deleterious Substances in Human Food and Animal Feed </a> </li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/magazine/you-only-better.html">You, Only Better</a></li><li><a href="https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/warning-letters/covid-19-letter_to_dave_asprey.pdf">FTC letter to Dave Asprey</a></li><li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/01/22/rfk-alternative-medicine-supplements/">Alternative medicine fans see RFK Jr. as a hero. The field’s skeptics worry.</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.vox.com/2014/12/19/7416939/bulletproof-coffee">The Bulletproof Diet is everything wrong with eating in America</a> </li><li><a href="https://gizmodo.com/bulletproof-coffee-debunking-the-hot-buttered-hype-1681321467">Bulletproof Coffee: Debunking the Hot Buttered Hype</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-04-21/buttered-coffee-could-make-you-invincible-and-this-man-very-rich">Buttered Coffee Could Make You Invincible. And This Man Very Rich</a></li></ul><p>Thanks to <a href="https://freesound.org/people/Doctor_Dreamchip/">Doctor Dreamchip</a> for our lovely theme song!</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Support the show</a></p>
53m
Blue Zones
<p>The places where humans live the longest are explained by traditional lifestyles, widespread incest or systematic fraud, there is no fourth option.<br><br>Thanks to <a href="https://gerontology.chp.vcu.edu/our-team/catherine-macdonald-ms.html">Catherine MacDonald</a> for helping us research and fact-check this episode!<br><br><b>Support us:</b></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Hear bonus episodes on Patreon</a></li><li><a href="https://www.yrfatfriendfilm.com/">Watch Aubrey's documentary</a></li><li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/you-just-need-to-lose-weight-and-19-other-myths-about-fat-people-aubrey-gordon/18405362?ean=9780807006474">Buy Aubrey's book</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id1651876897">Listen to Mike's other podcast</a></li><li><a href="http://tee.pub/lic/maintenancephase">Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more</a></li></ul><p><b>Links!</b></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.06.24313170v1.full-text">The global pattern of centenarians highlights deep problems in demography</a></li><li><a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000148&type=printable">Late-life mortality is underestimated because of data errors</a></li><li><a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v3">Supercentenarian and remarkable age records exhibit patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/well/live/blue-zones-longevity-aging.html">Do People in ‘Blue Zones’ Actually Live Longer?</a></li><li><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18426957/">They really are that old: a validation study of centenarian prevalence in Okinawa</a></li><li><a href="https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/74/Supplement_1/S13/5569844?login=false">The Real Facts Supporting Jeanne Calment as the Oldest Ever Human </a></li><li><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3205712/">A Population Where Men Live As Long As Women: Villagrande Strisaili, Sardinia</a></li><li><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2010/423087">Typologies of Extreme Longevity Myths</a> </li><li><a href="https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s42779-022-00152-5.pdf">Sardinian dietary analysis for longevity: a review of the literature</a></li><li><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34265327/">Identification of a geographic area characterized by extreme longevity in the Sardinia island</a></li><li><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34265327/">Specific features of the oldest old from the Longevity Blue Zones in Ikaria and Sardinia</a></li><li><a href="https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/85824797/j.socscimed.2015.01.01920220510-1-1yysb0j-libre.pdf?1652212882=&response-content-disposition=inline;+filename=Making_the_Blue_Zones_Neoliberalism_and.pdf&Expires=1736049166&Signature=R1hyUSqtzaUH6NRLzk9faufXJp6yA7LweeYzfE8hdi-urfVCu8NDBb319~OcqVfYgvlqocdKdtTqcETns-s~-ChcZR9RFFXEI6iLJq834rP7rANsZdPTn6n3EFqXOhtyxErhEZN-ga0U4PyZsaBcRArx6z-WY0XW~LxbDIOwJ4m3X7D6xsBxs7nuPLUcyJFbAfkRkj5QpuInu1eFXaYcKboumiR5Fr3jCCNQCgnHD2FHXc0IgzhR83QdAC0Ov2GN-Vyo8iG29M73v4PFG-eCliHTNTpGhZGVt4i5hhZa3DifibpWeB5ytPOYTxkclZmIf9i4Arna6-4NxysrgJzRWg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA">Making the Blue Zones: Neoliberalism and nudges in public health promotion</a></li><li><a href="https://immunityageing.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12979-016-0066-z">Human longevity: Genetics or Lifestyle?</a></li><li><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43050808">Familial transmission of human longevity</a></li></ul><p>Thanks to <a href="https://freesound.org/people/Doctor_Dreamchip/">Doctor Dreamchip</a> for our lovely theme song!</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Support the show</a></p>
1h 7m
BONUS: What's New With RFK Jr.?
<p>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. <br><br>See you next year! </p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Support the show</a></p>
1h 12m
Richard Simmons Isn't Missing
<p>The internet gets weird investigating the "disappearance" of America's gay best friend. <br><br><b>Support us:</b></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Hear bonus episodes on Patreon</a></li><li><a href="https://www.madman.com.au/your-fat-friend/">Watch Aubrey’s documentary in AU & NZ</a>, or <a href="https://www.yrfatfriendfilm.com/">watch it at home anywhere else</a>!</li><li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/you-just-need-to-lose-weight-and-19-other-myths-about-fat-people-aubrey-gordon/18405362?ean=9780807006474">Buy Aubrey's book</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id1651876897">Listen to Mike's other podcast</a></li><li><a href="http://tee.pub/lic/maintenancephase">Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more</a></li></ul><p><b>Links!</b></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU6j7vjfbEs">Richard Simmons Show</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/style/richard-simmons-the-original-queer-eye.html?searchResultPosition=1">Richard Simmons, the Original Queer Eye</a></li><li><a href="https://people.com/archive/former-fatty-richard-simmons-is-the-grand-duke-of-diet-and-the-clown-prince-of-fitness-vol-15-no-14/">The Grand Duke of Diet and the Clown Prince of Fitness</a> </li><li><a href="https://people.com/archive/cover-story-the-sultan-of-svelte-vol-16-no-18/">The Sultan of Svelte</a> </li><li><a href="https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol12/iss2/1/">The Deregulation Of Commercial Television</a></li><li><a href="https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/local/simmons-says-slapping-mesa-man-was-meant-as-playful/article_eed2c223-0fe3-52a0-998a-e7d11e8cdede.html">Simmons Says Slapping Mesa Man Was Meant as Playful</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.menshealth.com/guy-wisdom/richard-simmons">Richard Simmons’ Life Was a ‘Never-Ending Work in Progress’</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/richard-simmons-ordered-pay-130-000-after-transgender-lawsuit-n855936">Richard Simmons ordered to pay $130,000 after transgender lawsuit</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.avclub.com/pauly-shore-richard-simmons-biopic-update">Richard Simmons' family asks Pauly Shore to please stop</a></li><li><a href="https://www.avclub.com/pauly-shore-richard-simmons-biopic-new-update-1851442448">Pauly Shore's Richard Simmons biopic might actually be dead</a></li><li><a href="https://people.com/richard-simmons-death-was-an-accident-ground-level-fall-8704146">Richard Simmons' Death Was an 'Accident'</a></li><li><a href="https://people.com/richard-simmons-housekeeper-of-35-years-breaks-her-silence-he-died-happy-8684764">Richard Simmons' Housekeeper of 35 Years Breaks Her Silence</a></li><li><a href="https://www.heart.org/en/news/2024/02/26/how-eating-disorders-can-damage-the-heart">How eating disorders can damage the heart</a> </li></ul><p>Thanks to <a href="https://freesound.org/people/Doctor_Dreamchip/">Doctor Dreamchip</a> for our lovely theme song!</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Support the show</a></p>
1h 5m
Richard Simmons
<p>Part 1: The Early Years<br><br>Before building his fitness empire, America’s most bedazzled fitness guru was a guy named Milton from New Orleans. </p><p><b>Support us:</b></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Hear bonus episodes on Patreon</a></li><li><a href="https://www.madman.com.au/your-fat-friend/">Watch Aubrey’s documentary in AU & NZ</a>, or <a href="https://www.yrfatfriendfilm.com/">watch it at home anywhere else</a>!</li><li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/you-just-need-to-lose-weight-and-19-other-myths-about-fat-people-aubrey-gordon/18405362?ean=9780807006474">Buy Aubrey's book</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id1651876897">Listen to Mike's other podcast</a></li><li><a href="http://tee.pub/lic/maintenancephase">Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more</a></li></ul><p><b>Links!</b></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/qtO8AAAACAAJ?hl=en">Still Hungry...After All These Years by Richard Simmons</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIQp6pYbF9E">"Hair-Do"</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwfC59fxyFs"> Anatomy Asylum Commercial</a></li><li><a href="https://www.hnoc.org/publications/first-draft/richard-simmons-new-orleanss-hometown-hero">Richard Simmons: New Orleans's hometown hero</a></li><li><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/speedy-history-americas-addiction-amphetamine-180966989/">A Speedy History of America’s Addiction to Amphetamine</a> </li></ul><p>Thanks to <a href="https://freesound.org/people/Doctor_Dreamchip/">Doctor Dreamchip</a> for our lovely theme song!</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Support the show</a></p>
1h 1m
The Myers-Briggs Personality Test
<p>How a mother, a daughter and a crackpot Swiss psychologist gave us the world's most popular Buzzfeed quiz.<br><br><b>Support us:</b></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Hear bonus episodes on Patreon</a></li><li><a href="https://paypal.me/maintenancephase">Donate on PayPal</a></li><li><a href="http://tee.pub/lic/maintenancephase">Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more</a></li><li><a href="https://www.jolt.film/watch/yr-fat-friend-film">Watch Aubrey's documentary</a></li><li><a href="https://www.aubreygordon.net/myths">Buy Aubrey's book</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id1651876897?ign-itscg=30200S&ign-itsct=podcast_box">Listen to Mike's other podcast</a></li></ul><p><b>Links!</b></p><ul><li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-personality-brokers-the-strange-history-of-myers-briggs-and-the-birth-of-personality-testing-merve-emre/8613166?ean=9781101974148">The Personality Brokers by Merve Emre</a></li><li><a href="https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/myers-briggs-overview/">Myers Briggs Type Preferences</a></li><li><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/10/what-personality-tests-really-deliver">What Personality Tests Really Deliver</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/business/remote-work-personality-tests.html">The $2 Billion Question of Who You Are at Work</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Pittenger/publication/232494957_Cautionary_comments_regarding_the_Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator/links/02bfe50cb18c2dbfd4000000/Cautionary-Comments-Regarding-the-Myers-Briggs-Type-Indicator.pdf">Cautionary Comments Regarding the MBTI</a></li><li><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan-Kelly-3/publication/232554639_The_'Barnum_Effect'_in_Personality_Assessment_A_Review_of_the_Literature/links/587936c808ae9a860fe2eeef/The-Barnum-Effect-in-Personality-Assessment-A-Review-of-the-Literature.pdf">The Barnum Effect in Personality Assessment</a></li><li><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/toddessig/2014/09/29/the-mysterious-popularity-of-the-meaningless-myers-briggs-mbti/">The Mysterious Popularity Of The Meaningless Myers-Briggs</a></li><li><a href="https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless">Why the Myers-Briggs personality test is totally meaningless</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.vox.com/even-better/23743836/personality-test-identity-myers-briggs-horoscope-love-language">Can you truly know yourself in a quiz?</a></li><li><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-at-any-age/201401/what-you-dont-know-about-this-personality-test-can-hurt-you">What You Don't Know about This Personality Test Can Hurt You</a></li><li><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201309/mbti-if-you-want-me-back-you-need-to-change-too">MBTI, If You Want Me Back, You Need to Change Too</a></li><li><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/personality-tests-arent-all-the-same-some-work-better-than-others/">Personality Tests Aren't All the Same</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1170497">The Utility of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator</a> </li></ul><p>Thanks to <a href="https://freesound.org/people/Doctor_Dreamchip/">Doctor Dreamchip</a> for our lovely theme song!</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Support the show</a></p>
55m
BONUS: Breaking Down The Latest Anti-Trans Victory Lap
<p>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!!!<br><br>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! <br><br>Julia Serano: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/juliaserano">https://www.patreon.com/juliaserano</a><br>Parker Molloy: <a href="https://www.readtpa.com/">https://www.readtpa.com/</a><br>Katelyn Burns: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/katelynburns">https://www.patreon.com/katelynburns</a><br>Evan Urquhart: <a href="https://www.assignedmedia.org/support">https://www.assignedmedia.org/support</a><br>Erin Reed: <a href="https://www.erininthemorning.com/">https://www.erininthemorning.com/</a><br><br>Or organizations that work with trans youth in the UK: <br>Mermaids: <a href="https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/">https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/</a><br>Stonewall: <a href="https://www.stonewall.org.uk/">https://www.stonewall.org.uk/</a><br><br>Thanks to <a href="https://freesound.org/people/Doctor_Dreamchip/">Doctor Dreamchip</a> for our lovely theme song!</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Support the Show.</a></p>
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"Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria" Part 2: Panic! At The Endocrinologist.
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