Was There A Great Sugar Conspiracy? (Part One)
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode kicks off our two-part deep dive into one of nutrition’s most talked-about controvers...
Food Combining Diets
12 Nov 2025
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Can the way you combine foods really change how your body digests them—or even help you lose weigh...
The Nutrition Claims of The Medical Medium [SAMPLE]
05 Nov 2025
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Vitamin D Truths (and Truthers)
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Few nutrients get as much hype as vitamin D. It’s been promoted for everything from stronger bones...
Let’s Talk About Microplastics... (with Dr. Katie Pelch)
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Microplastics are having a major moment in the headlines, but there’s a lot of confusion about wha...
Women, Food and God [SAMPLE]
08 Oct 2025
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Is Leaky Gut Real?
01 Oct 2025
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"Leaky Gut"—or more accurately increased intestinal permeability—has become a buzzword...
The Blood Type Diet
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Blood Type Diet has been touted as a personalized approach to eating—claiming that your blood ...
Dietitians React: Fit for TV (The Reality of The Biggest Loser) [SAMPLE]
10 Sep 2025
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How Nutrition Misinformation Spreads
03 Sep 2025
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In nutrition, uncertainty isn’t just common—it’s expected. Science evolves, studies conflict, ...
How To Think About Intermittent Fasting (Summer Re-Release)
20 Aug 2025
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Dietitians React: Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead [SAMPLE]
13 Aug 2025
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No Seriously, Are You Dehydrated? (Summer Re-Release)
06 Aug 2025
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Let's Talk About The Glucose Goddess... (Summer Re-Release)
23 Jul 2025
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Nutrition In The News! [SAMPLE]
17 Jul 2025
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100 Years of Diet Food (Summer Re-Release)
09 Jul 2025
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Let’s Talk About Food Dyes…
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Synthetic food dyes have recently made headlines—again. From bold health assertions to whispers of...
The Weight Loss Cure "They" Don’t Want You To Know About [SAMPLE]
18 Jun 2025
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A Tale of Two Ketos (Diet Culture Keto)
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Keto became a popular weight loss diet in the 1990s and has been a mainstay of diet culture ever sin...
A Tale of Two Ketos (Miracle Keto)
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us, two Registered Dietitians (and friends!), as we explore the history and science of the keto...
What We Get Wrong About Organic Foods
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Organic food dominates grocery store aisles and farmers markets—but what does “organic” actual...
The Ultimate Nutrition Hack: Brian Wansink (SAMPLE)
07 May 2025
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Make America Healthy Again…Like, When Exactly?
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement has garnered tremendous attention and amassed a huge ...
The Rise of The U.S. Supplement Industry (Part 2)
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More adults in the U.S. are using dietary supplements than ever before. For decades, however, tensio...
Terrible Moments in Diet Culture History (Part 2) [SAMPLE]
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The Rise of The U.S. Supplement Industry (Part 1)
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More adults in the U.S. are using dietary supplements than ever before. For decades, however, tensio...
Can Hypnosis Trance-Form Your Eating?
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hypnotherapy has been used for decades to effectively help people reduce stress, manage pain and imp...
Terrible Moments in Diet Culture History (Part 1) [TEASER]
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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What Is “Food Noise” Really?
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Food Noise” was a relatively unused term until the recent rise of GLP-1RA medications. Now, soc...
No Seriously, Are You Dehydrated?
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hydration recommendations abound. Some claim we should all be drinking 8 glasses of water daily, whi...
The Wellness Grifter Super Bowl! [TEASER]
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Let’s Talk About The Glucose Goddess...
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jessie Inchauspé, also known as The Glucose Goddess, burst onto the Instagram scene in 2018, where ...
Can We Trust Our Dietary Guidelines? (Part 3: Beyond The Pyramid)
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. government has been making nutrition recommendations for well over 100 years. More recently...
Can We Trust Our Dietary Guidelines? (Part 2: The Great Pyramid)
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. government has been making nutrition recommendations for well over 100 years. More recently...
New Years Resets and Wellness Challenges [TEASER]
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Nutrition For Mortals Trailer!
01 Jan 2025
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30 Bananas A Day (Holiday Release!)
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a re-release of one of our bonus episodes from earlier this year. To catch all of our bonus ...
Unfortunate Nutrition Trends of 2024 and Predictions for 2025! [TEASER]
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Can We Trust Our Dietary Guidelines? (Part 1: Before the Pyramid)
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. government has been making nutrition recommendations for well over 100 years. More recently...
Sugar and Hyperactivity
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a common trope: a bunch of kids go to a birthday party, eat some cake, and suddenly they all ...
How To Think About Intermittent Fasting
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
16:8 or is it 14:10? Intermittent fasting has quickly become a popular way to try and improve health...
The Problems With The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics [TEASER]
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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The Truth About Body Weight "Set Point Theory"
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Set Point Theory. It’s a term that gets thrown around a lot in both diet and wellness culture and ...
On Healthism and Social Determinants (with Shana Minei Spence)
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode, we are joined by a titan in the anti-diet social media space, Shana Minei Spen...
We Take The Bright Line Eating Masterclass [TEASER]
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Let's Talk About The Whole30...
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not a diet! Or is it? The Whole30 burst onto the wellness scene in the late aughts and became...
The Ancestral Diet Trend [TEASER]
19 Sep 2024
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The Raw Milk Movement
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last few years sales of raw, unpasteurized milk have skyrocketed. Raw milk advocates claim ...
No Seriously, How Dangerous Are Ultra-Processed Foods?
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ultra-processed foods are an ultra-hot topic currently in the world of nutrition. Headlines abound s...
N4M Best Of: Can You Hack Your Metabolism?
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a re-release of an episode originally shared 11/01/2023 Jen and Matt are on summer break dri...
Jordan Rubin & His Biblical Diets [TEASER]
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What a rollercoaster! To hear the rest of the episode head on over to our Patreon! https://www.patr...
N4M Best Of: Plant Panic!! (Anti-Nutrients & Seeds Oils)
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a re-release of an episode originally shared 7/26/2023 Jen and Matt are on summer break drin...
N4M Best Of: Let's Talk About Optavia...
24 Jul 2024
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This is a re-release of an episode originally shared 11/15/2023 Jen and Matt are on summer break dri...
William Davis’ "Wheat Belly” [TEASER]
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do ya’ll remember Wheat Belly?! To hear the rest of the episode head on over to our Patreon! https...
N4M Best Of: Nutrition on Social Media (Navigating the Chaos)
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a re-release of an episode originally shared 09/20/2023 Jen and Matt are on summer break dri...
Nutrition in Space!
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Space, the final frontier! Have you ever wondered how the nutrition needs of an astronaut change whe...
Are We Food Industry Stooges?! [TEASER]
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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100 Years of Diet Food
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Diet foods have been around in some shape or form for well over a hundred years. Whether they are lo...
Personalized Nutrition Part 3: Zoe and Metabolic Response Testing
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the final installment of this three-part series we’re digging into the world of metabolic respo...
Personalized Nutrition Part 2: Nutrigenetics (with Dr. Lara Hyde)
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the second of this three part series, we’re digging into the world of nutrigenetics. Over the...
30 Bananas a Day [TEASER]
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A trip to Banana Island, anyone? To hear the rest of the episode, support us on Patreon: https://www...
Personalized Nutrition Part 1: Viome and the Microbiome (With Dr. Lara Hyde)
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the first of this three part series, we dive into the world of personalized nutrition starting wi...
The Great Saturated Fat Debate
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For decades the advice around saturated fat seemed clear: lowering your intake of saturated fat woul...
Documentary Deep Dive on “You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment” [TEASER]
10 Apr 2024
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The Language of Weight Stigma (with Ragen Chastain)
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The words “overweight” and “obesity” are used both colloquially and throughout the healthcar...
Let’s Talk About Weight Watchers…
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Weight Watchers has been around for decades. Generations of individuals have attended meetings, logg...
The Dara-Lynn Weiss Story [TEASER]
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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No Seriously, How Much Protein Do We Need?
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How much protein do we need? Seems like a simple enough question, right? Well, in the world of nutri...
It’s Time to Get Rid of BMI
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Body mass index or BMI is a metric that most of us are familiar with. It’s recorded on our health ...
The Chocolate Weight Loss Hoax [TEASER]
14 Feb 2024
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A Frank Discussion About Functional Medicine
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Functional Medicine is becoming increasingly popular in the United States. More and more individuals...
The MSG Myth
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us have heard about MSG, that amazing flavor enhancer often used in a variety of Asian cuisi...
A Conversation with Intuitive Eating Creator Evelyn Tribole!
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We had the immense honor of being joined by Intuitive Eating co-creator, Evelyn Tribole. We covered ...
One Year Celebration! (Unfortunate Nutrition Trends of 2023 & Calorie Labeling at Restaurants) [TEASER]
03 Jan 2024
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Are We Full Of Heavy Metals?
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Heavy metal detoxes, mercury in seafood, colloidal silver. There is a ton of buzz about heavy metals...
Coffee Wars: Part Two
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 24: Coffee Wars: Part Two In the second episode of this two part series, we dig into the cou...
Documentary Deep Dive on "How Ultra-Processed Food is Slowly Killing Us" [TEASER]
06 Dec 2023
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Coffee Wars: Part One
29 Nov 2023
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Let's Talk About Optavia...
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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The Man Who Wants to Live Forever [TEASER]
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us, two registered dietitians (and friends!) as we ask the question: do you really want to live...
Can You Hack Your Metabolism?
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Increasing metabolism is often a central focus of diet and wellness programs. But do the foods we ea...
Guts! (Cleanses, Detoxes & “Resets”)
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our modern world of wellness, it feels impossible to avoid the barrage of content focused on achi...
A History of Diet Drugs
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Diet drugs have been marketed and sold in some shape or form for well over a hundred years. Some of ...
Nutrition On Social Media (Navigating The Chaos)
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Social media influencers disseminate massive amounts of nutrition and health related content daily. ...
The Hormone Balancing Hoax
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The phrase "balance your hormones" is popping up everywhere. Social media influencers are ...
Counting Down Toxic Fitness Trends (with Michael Ulloa)
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Just like in the world of nutrition, the fitness industry is rife with misinformation and toxic mess...
Let's Talk About Noom...
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Noom! The app that has revolutionized weight loss by using psychology! But has it? Most of us have s...
Plant Panic!! (Anti-Nutrients & Seed Oils)
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The carnivore diet has recently been gaining popularity... But why? Are there truly aspects of plant...
Vitamin C (Friends Forever)
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vitamin C and the common cold have been inexorably linked for decades. Because of this, many of us t...
Is Diet Soda Bad For You?
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cancer! Alzheimer’s! Heart Disease! Diet soda has A LOT of health risk claims swirling around it. ...
Food is NOT Thy Medicine
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve all heard the phrase ‘Let Food Be Thy Medicine’. Besides being a classic opening for man...
Ingredient Households, Almond Moms, & The Clean Plate Club
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ingredient Households. Almond Moms. The Clean Plate Club. Most of us have seen these buzzwords float...
Alkaline Water & pHony Diets
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alkaline water is lining shelves. Celebrities like Tom Brady, Kate Hudson and Gwyneth Paltrow have a...
The Minnesota Starvation Experiment
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Minnesota Starvation Experiment is a truly remarkable piece of nutrition research conducted duri...
Intuitive Eating in a Nutshell
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Intuitive Eating is a non-diet framework that can drastically improve how people relate to food, how...
Sugar is NOT a Drug
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us have heard the claim that sugar is more addictive than cocaine. We’re tired of this unh...
"Dishing" About Serving Sizes
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Serving sizes have been a central part of the nutrition label for years, but there continues to be a...
The Insane World of Food Sensitivity Tests
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve all seen the ads. The ones telling us that with one. simple. test. we can finally know exact...
WTF are: Adaptogens?
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode in the WTF series! WTFisode? In this series we’ll define and explore ...
Are There Actually Good and Bad Foods?
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us tend to automatically label foods as “good” or “bad,” but are these labels helpfu...