Maintenance Phase
Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
Journalists Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes debunking wellness fads and pseudoscience in the diet industry.
Why we picked this
We picked Maintenance Phase because it dismantles wellness and diet culture with the rigor of a fact-checker and the timing of a comedian. Hosts Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes treat every fad diet, supplement claim, and wellness guru as a primary-source research project, then explain why the underlying history or science is wrong. The show trades moral panic for archival evidence, and it favors structural explanations over individual blame. A feed worth keeping for anyone tired of grifters selling self-optimization.
Recent episodes
Salt
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Tim Ferriss’s "The 4-Hour Body" (feat. Peter Shamshiri)
Apr 16, 20261h 8m
Russell Brand Part 2
Apr 1, 20261h 7m
Russell Brand Part 1
Mar 17, 20261h 14m
The Diet Crimes of Metabolife
Feb 12, 202657 min
Raw Milk
Nov 13, 20251h 5m
The Food Babe
Sep 25, 202552 min
Seed Oils
Aug 26, 20251h 18m
Herbalife
Jul 10, 202556 min
Ultra-Processed Foods
Jun 3, 20251h 11m
BONUS: MAHA's First 90 Days
May 1, 202553 min
The Bulletproof Diet
Mar 26, 202553 min
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