HeyJaredYour Diet Sucks
Diet culture, you've met your scientific match. Hosted by an elite ultrarunner/journalist and a registered dietitian, Your Diet Sucks dismantles the myths, trends, and pseudoscience that screw up how we think about food, health, and fitness.Subscribe to bonus episodes here:…
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 5
- Latest publication
- Sep 2, 2026
- Audience
- Apple #200 · US
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 8, 2026
Latest episodes
Is It Actually Your Cortisol? Cortisol Belly, Cortisol Face, and the Billion-Dollar Business of Blaming a Hormone (opens the original)
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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 stop scrolling? Cortisol. A hormone you would die without got recast as the thing wrecking your face, and a $4.8 billion supplement economy showed up to fix it. This episode asks how that happened, and whether any of it is new. It isn't. Zoë traces the lineage: Hans Selye, the self-described father of stress, who built the modern ide
Are You Addicted to Exercise? (opens the original)
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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 addiction. Whether it's real, whether "addiction" is even the right word, and why the whole concept was popularized by a psychiatrist who also thought clinical depression was a choice you could simply make differently. We trace it from a 1970 sleep study that fell apart because the researcher couldn't find enough people willing to stop
Why Is Everyone Scared of Microplastics? (opens the original)
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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 inform you that this does not mean everything is fine. Both of those numbers came from real studies, and both got mangled somewhere between the paper and your feed. Kylee walks through what actually survives scrutiny, where the fertility conversation outruns its evidence, and why the BPA-free sticker on your Nalgene is not the reassu
Why is Everyone Using Peptides? (opens the original)
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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 are the injectable wellness trend that jumped from bodybuilding forums to med spas to your feed, promoted for healing, muscle, fat loss, and living forever. But what does the science say, and what are peptides, actually? Some of them became legitimate blockbuster drugs: insulin is a peptide, and so are the GLP-1s. But the ones f
The Keto Diet (opens the original)
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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 loophole in human physiology. So does it actually work? This week we trace keto from a deaf Victorian undertaker who accidentally invented the first diet book, to a 1920s epilepsy clinic that turned fasting into medicine, to the bankrupt Atkins empire, to the shirtless guys on TikTok insisting grains ruined their lives. Then we get in
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