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.
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