Your Diet Sucks

Why Is Everyone Still Afraid of Gluten? Fads, Fiction, and Why Bread Hits Different In Europe

Nearly a third of Americans say they're trying to avoid gluten. About 1% have celiac disease. That gap is worth billions of dollars. In this episode, Zoë and Kylee dig in

Diet Culture & Pyramid Schemes: MLMs, Herbalife, and the Vitamin That Started It All

Multi-level marketing was invented to sell vitamins. Not adjacent to vitamins, not eventually pivoted to vitamins: the first MLM in America was a 1945 alfalfa-pill compan

Is It Actually Your Cortisol? Cortisol Belly, Cortisol Face, and the Billion-Dollar Business of Blaming a Hormone

Support us on Patreon! Somewhere in the last few years, cortisol became the answer to everything. Tired? Cortisol. Puffy? Cortisol. Gained weight, lost sleep, can't sto

Are You Addicted to Exercise?

Support the show at Patreon.com/yourdietsucks "No days off" is a slogan, a t-shirt, and a diagnostic criterion, depending on who's reading it. This week: exercise addic

Why Is Everyone Scared of Microplastics?

Support the show at Patreon.com/yourdietsucks There is no plastic spoon in your brain (unless you put one there). There is no credit card in your diet. We regret to info

Why is Everyone Using Peptides?

BPC-157. TB-500. MOTs-C. If those sound like droids from a Star Wars spinoff, congratulations on your healthy relationship with the internet. For everyone else: peptides

The Keto Diet

Support us on Patreon! Keto promised something no other diet could: cut the carbs, flip a metabolic switch, and burn fat without counting a single calorie. A magic looph

Are Seed Oils Actually Bad For You?

Join our Patreon! This is the most requested episode in two years, and the one strangers corner Zoë about the second they find out she hosts a nutrition podcast. Seed oi

Why Am I So Hungry?

You were taught that hunger is a trick question. Before you're allowed to eat, you have to clear the suspects: you're bored, you're thirsty, you're emotional, you're just

Are Artificial Sweeteners Actually Bad For You?

In 1879, a chemist named Constantin Fahlberg sat down to dinner without washing his hands after a day spent handling coal tar. His bread tasted strangely sweet. So he wen

Should You Count Calories? The Wild History and Questionable Science Behind Calorie Counting

Should you count calories? A century ago, a Los Angeles doctor named Lulu Hunt Peters sold two million copies of a book that taught American women to count calories as a

Food Allergies, Intolerances, and Sensitivity Tests

This week, Zoë mailed a chunk of her hair to a stranger in Florida. For science. For journalism. For your benefit, really. The $60 hair sample test came back flagging her

Is Natural Food Actually Healthier?

In 1997, a 14-year-old named Nathan Zahner convinced 43 out of 50 classmates to sign a petition banning a dangerous chemical called dihydrogen monoxide. The chemical was

The Caffeine Episode

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God, Guilt, and the Gospel of Clean Eating

Get "Carb Slut" and "Petty and Scientifically Literate" merch here! Check out our website for references, transcripts, and more! Diet culture is really good at one thin

How Whole30 Became a Diet Empire Without a Single Study

Get "Carb Slut" and "Petty and Scientifically Literate" merch here! Whole30 has sold millions of books, built a coaching empire, and partnered with Chipotle and Walmart

Does Intermittent Fasting Actually Do Anything?

Intermittent fasting is the most Googled diet-related term on the planet, except everyone who does it will tell you it's not a diet. It's a protocol. An eating window. A

Do Anti-Inflammatory Diets Actually Work?

Connect With Us: ⁠Patreon⁠ | ⁠@yourdietsuckspod on instagram The wellness industry wants you to believe your body is on fire. Tired? Inflamed. Bloated? Inflamed. Sad? Be

The Vegetarian Diet

⁠Check out our website for a full list of episodes and references!⁠ Support us on Patreon, or Apple Subscriptions or Spotify Premium! Can you build muscle, train hard,

Men, Masculinity, Body Image and Disordered Eating

We brought the husbands on for this one. Sean Van Horn and TJ David join us to talk about eating disorders in men, disordered eating in male athletes, and how the wellnes