Rethinking Wellness

Rethinking Wellness Food-Sensitivity Tests, SIBO, Probiotics, and FODMAPs: Your Evidence-Based Guide 1× 0:00 Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -10:37 -10:37 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Food-Sensitivity Tests, SIBO, Probiotics, and FODMAPs: Your Evidence-Based Guide How to navigate digestive issues in disordered eating without falling into wellness traps It’s Q&A time! You can ask your own question here for a chance to have it answered in an upcoming edition.

Rethinking Wellness How to Heal Your Body Image and Feed Kids Without Fear 1× 0:00 Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -41:07 -41:07 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.

Rethinking Wellness offers critical thinking and compassionate skepticism about wellness and diet culture, and reflections on how to find true well-being.

Registered dietitian Aaron Flores joins us to discuss why Andrew Huberman and other biohacking wellness bros have such massive appeal, and how their rhetoric can lead to disordered eating and body shame. In a deeper dive for paid subscribers, we get into how to talk to male partners or loved ones who’ve come under the sway of bro-wellness culture—and how to set boundaries when their diet/fitness talk challenges our recovery from disordered eating.

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Tuesday found that only 76 percent of Americans believe vaccines against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) are safe for kids—a sharp decline from 84 percent in a May 2020 poll by the same group. As you might expect, political affiliation played a role here, with trust declining the most among Republicans (and, to a lesser but still significant extent, Independents). This comes as the U.S. grapples with its worst measles outbreak in 35 years.

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -3:41 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Photo by Gama. Films on Unsplash It’s Q&A time! You can ask your own question here for a chance to have it answered in an upcoming edition. This week’s question is from one of the participants in our first monthly Office Hours.

Photo by Dingzeyu Li on Unsplash In general, you could say I’m pro-meditation. I’ve gotten a lot out of the practice, which was a substantial ingredient in my path to eating-disorder recovery more than a decade ago. Since then, with a more skeptical eye, I’ve skimmed the science on the benefits of meditation and judged it to be compelling enough to continue, albeit imperfectly. It’s one of the very few wellness-y things I still do.

Nutritionist Abbie Attwood joins us to discuss how dealing with multiple autoimmune chronic illnesses led her down a path of dubious diagnoses and disordered eating, and how she ultimately found healing. We get into how disordered eating can trigger and aggravate chronic conditions, why she believed she had “adrenal fatigue” and “leaky gut,” and the role of obsession and OCD in orthorexia.

Hello and happy Thursday! I’m back in your inbox to share a few pieces I read recently that I thought you might enjoy / find relevant to this project of rethinking wellness. There’s some disturbing news about how the CDC is reporting measles deaths, a good primer on perimenopause influencers, a thoughtful take on the “botox binary,” and a piece on “reve…

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -3:54 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Photo by Curated Lifestyle on Unsplash It’s Q&A time! You can ask your own question here for a chance to have it answered in an upcoming edition. Hi Christy! Long time listener, first time caller here. I found your podcast and Substack to be one of the most helpful resources in my eating disorder recovery journey.