Fat Science - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I love this podcast - there’s a ton of great science content mixed with health info, and it makes all the mysteries of weight issues and management make sense. Also a great medium between the weight loss-obsessed society at large, and the fat acceptance movement that I know leaves some people with excess weight feeling frustrated.

I love this show! I am so grateful for Dr. Cooper’s practical approach to the scientific explanations of why we get fat. She is an incredible wealth of knowledge. Her steady way of sharing that knowledge feels like the calm port in the stormy seas of the diet and weight-loss industry. I never get the feeling that she, Mark, or Andrea are trying to sell me anything, so I trust them. As someone who has tried EVERY health fad and weight-loss trend over more than three decades, I love how calmly sensible this podcast is. Thanks for the great work you three do!

As I’ve started my GLP1/GIP journey, listening to this podcast has brought me so much information and comfort. Hearing what has physically happened to my body over the years of bad diet decisions coupled with the genetic hand I have been dealt has really put things into perspective for me and has helped me understand how the medication I am taking is helping me fix those things, not just lose weight. I have recommended this podcast to so many people recently because this information is not out there in the mainstream and I really wish it would!

Excellent to hear science and learn an entire new approach to life. As a mental health therapist this has completely changed my approach to my clients, my friends, family and myself.

Despite their tagline, this podcast definitely has an agenda. They also act naively uninformed about just how bad & how unavailable weight loss health care is in the US. The hosts’ idealistic goals might be admirable if they had any relation to reality. But, alas, these episodes are like listening to a lecture in medical school: all theory and no practice. So in the end this is just another doctor lecturing us without any accessible solutions.