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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 Mental Health Awareness World
Episodes
  • Herbalife
    Jul 10 2025

    We’re talking about our first diet MLM and IT’S A REAL DOOZY!

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    • Herbalife: Weighty Profits and Government Probes
    • Herbalife Exec's Death Prompts Bizarre Fallout
    • Autopsy on Herbalife founder finds death caused by accidental overdose
    • The Uncertain Start of a Remarkable Life
    • Nobel Prize Winner Didn't Disclose Herbalife Contract
    • Latinos crucial to Herbalife's financial health
    • Latino Group Demands Herbalife Probe
    • The Big Short War
    • The Siege of Herbalife
    • After Big Bet, Hedge Fund Pulls the Levers of Power
    • Herbalife Will Restructure and Pay $200 Million to Settle FTC Charges
    • An inside look at the $200 million FTC settlement
    • U.S. 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!



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    57 mins
  • 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

    Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

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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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    • Hear bonus episodes on Patreon
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    • Buy Aubrey's book
    • Listen to Mike's other podcast
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    53 mins
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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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loved it. love every episode. presenters are wonderful and hilarious and you learn something new every time

my favourite podcast

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I've listened for year and honestly it always makes me laugh, informs and feeds my soul.

Always excellent. With no exceptions

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