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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 154 episodesThe Ruling Class Wrote The Rules and I'm Done Following Them
Send us Fan Mail Should healthcare be a basic human right or a private enterprise? All my life, I worked for the National Health Service, th...
I'm The Child Of A Narcissist
Send us Fan Mail CW: Child abuse, death or a parent, emotional trauma Growing up with a narcissistic father has given me some insight in how...
Abandon All Hope Of Success
Send us Fan Mail Success is a loaded term. It comes with expectations and targets. It's measured and tracked and is closely tied with a pers...
How I've Been Making Myself Smaller
Send us Fan Mail I pride myself on being a fat person who isn't afraid to take up space. But the more you take up space, the more people wil...
There Is No Solution
Send us Fan Mail Everything you've been told about weight loss is a lie. We can sum up the driving force behind all of these lies in two sim...
I'm Done Being Nice
Send us Fan Mail Asher's 10 rules for how to stop being nice: 1. Stop following the rules that were designed to make you smaller or disappea...
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....
My 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...