Your Diet Sucks

Zoë Rom

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: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/microcosm-coaching0/subscribe

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Your Diet Sucks

Episodes (52)

Wed Feb 18th Does Intermittent Fasting Actually Do Anything?
Wed Feb 4th Do Anti-Inflammatory Diets Actually Work?
Jan 21st The Vegetarian Diet

Your Diet Sucks

Feb 18, 2026
2¾ hours
113 MB

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 lifestyle. An optimization hack. Definitely, absolutely, under no circumstances a diet. You just don't eat for sixteen hours. Totally different. In this episode, we trace IF from ancient religious fasting traditions through its secularization and commodification, afrom Martin Berkhan's Leangains forum and its tagline ("fuck breakfast") to Michael Mosley's BBC documentary, Hugh Jackman's Wolverine physique, and Jack Dorsey describing his weekend-long fasts as "hallucinating"...

Your Diet Sucks

Does Intermittent Fasting Actually Do Anything?

Zoë Rom

00:00 -01:21:59