Health & Fitness · Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
by Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
Debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams and nonsensical nutrition advice.
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I’ve been listening to this show since it came out and it’s become one of my favorite comfort podcasts. Not just because I am constantly un-learning toxic diet culture, but they also put in the work to research the topic at hand.
Thank you both for this work. Your voice is in my ear often, and your kindness has taught me how to be a better person. When I was a younger fat person, I thought it was fatphobic to want to lose weight. Yes, Mike, I was that 20 year old. Your show helped me to understand that it is SOOO NOT about individual behaviors and ALL ABOUT larger messaging and legislature. Who cares if my sister is counting her macros?? I can focus on the larger scale rather than her. There are people dying out there, Kim.
Aubrey and Michael provide the nuance we need: well researched information about how policy affects our lives, validation for the horror show we are experiencing, and much-needed laughs at everything from supplement sheisters to failed tagline puns. Simultaneously my comfort listen and how I have expanded my knowledge on health policy in the U.S.
Can’t suggest this pod enough, I’ve been a listener for three years. Just subscribed and am now experiencing the pleasure of going through subscriber episodes!
the show is at it’s best when it’s poking fun at influencer culture, and its worst when it attempts to talk science. i think the hosts have a tendency to put too much trust in their own ability to research and present information, the show would be greatly helped by bringing in experts to expand on and debunk topics.
Although in a lot of ways I politically align with Aubrey and Micheal, I think that they, unfortunately, vastly misrepresent the research they discuss on this show. They desperately need to bring in expert opinions and fact checkers, because they don’t actually seem to understand how to properly communicate the complex science they are discussing. I liked this podcast a lot better when they roasted diet books, but even then they didn’t fully understand what they were discussing. I would recommend that any listeners take this podcast with a grain of salt because it is rife with misleading information. There are so many other podcasts that take on the issues discussed here in much better ways. Podcasts that actually stay in their lane of expertise and knowledge, and if needed they bring in experts to discuss complex and multifaceted topics. Unbiased Science, Front Page Fitness, Barbell medicine all do it so much better than MP, and the hosts are far more educated with doctorate degrees. MP should only be used for entertainment, not facts! I strongly recommend following up each episode with The Maintenance Phase Reality Check substack series, as it adds a lot of the nuance and science based commentary that MP so desperately needs.
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