When "Everything's Normal" Isn't Good Enough
Send us Fan Mail When your blood tests come back normal and your doctor sends you on your way, that's not a diagnosis – that's a dismissal....
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The Fat Doctor Podcast
How would you react if someone told you that most of what we are taught to believe about healthy bodies is a lie? How would you feel if that person was a medical doctor with over 20 years ex...
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20 of 147 episodesMy Pain Keeps Getting Dismissed!
Send us Fan Mail Fat patients with chronic pain are routinely sent away with a weight loss lecture. No examination, no blood tests, no refer...
Why avoiding your doctor makes complete sense
Send us Fan Mail Weight stigma doesn't just happen inside the consultation room: it keeps fat people out of it entirely. In this episode, yo...
No Weigh! The Live Book Launch
Send us Fan Mail For 20 years, I prescribed weight loss without question at the same time as I was experiencing weight stigma myself as a fa...
Big Pharma's Playbook: How the Weight Loss Industry Bought the World
Send us Fan Mail The pharmaceutical industry didn't just create a weight loss drug — it created a world in which you cannot escape it. In th...
The Lesser Known GLP-1 Lies
Send us Fan Mail GLP-1s are being prescribed for everything from arthritis to sleep apnea to low testosterone — with almost no evidence they...
Diab*sity: The Weight Loss Industry's Favourite Couple
Send us Fan Mail The marriage between diabetes and ob*sity is nothing more than a PR stunt dressed up as medicine — and it's been runni...
This is Bad Medicine
Send us Fan Mail CW: Fertility treatment, organ donation, BMI based surgical denial Fat people are being denied fertility treatment without...
Your Numbers Don't Mean What They Told You
Send us Fan Mail Your doctors told you that losing weight would help you live longer, improve your numbers, and protect you from serious ill...
"I Lost Weight And My Health Improved" (did it?)
Send us Fan Mail Your lived experience is real. You lost weight, your health improved, and I'm not calling you a liar. But I'm sti...
Doctors Are Prescribing Eating Disorders
Send us Fan Mail Doctors are prescribing eating disorders to fat patients — not by accident, not in spite of the guidelines, but because of...
We've Known About the Harms of Dieting for 80 Years
Send us Fan Mail In 1944, a group of healthy young men volunteered to be starved in the name of science. What happened to them — physically,...
Fat, cancer, and the 1 in 20 lie
Send us Fan Mail Cancer Research UK calls being fat the second biggest cause of cancer in the UK. It's a claim built on manipulated sta...
Disease Mongering: Inventing Illness To Sell A Cure
Send us Fan Mail Disease mongering has transformed human body diversity into a medical crisis requiring pharmaceutical intervention. When Ra...
Why Lifestyle Advice is BS: The Mediterranean Diet Edition
Send us Fan Mail The Mediterranean diet has become medical gospel—promoted by diabetes organizations, heart health foundations, and doctors...
The Big Fat Lie: Why Your Weight Didn't Cause Your Health Condition
Send us Fan Mail Medicine has built an entire mythology around weight as the root cause of disease, including diabetes, sleep apnea, and art...
Wellness Influencers: A 400-Year History of the Same Old BS
Send us Fan Mail Wellness culture didn't start with Instagram. From George Cheyne's 1724 bestseller to Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters redefi...
It's Not Your Fault: The Real Factors That Control Your Weight
Send us Fan Mail The weight loss industry has convinced us that being fat is a personal failure—a consequence of eating too much and moving...
When Doctors Lie: The Guidelines That Recommend Diets They Know Don't Work
Send us Fan Mail In 1992, a room full of weight loss experts admitted diets don't work and that weight regain is almost inevitable with...
How Big Pharma Made Up a Disease
Send us Fan Mail In 1995, the WHO published a report stating clearly: "There are no clearly established cutoff points for fat mass or fat pe...