Zoë Rom 8/19/26 Zoë Rom 8/19/26

Are You Addicted to Exercise?

"No days off" is a slogan, a t-shirt, and a diagnostic criterion, depending on who's reading it. Exercise addiction isn't an official diagnosis. That hasn't stopped the culture from deciding it's aspirational.

Zoë Rom 8/6/26 Zoë Rom 8/6/26

Why Is Everyone Scared of Microplastics?

There is no plastic spoon in your brain. There is no credit card in your diet. We regret to inform you that this does not mean everything is fine. Microplastics are the rare wellness panic where the underlying science is real and the numbers everyone repeats are garbage, so we spent an hour separating the two. What the headlines got wrong, what BPA-free doesn't mean, and how much you should actually be thinking about this.

Zoë Rom 7/30/26 Zoë Rom 7/30/26

Why Is Everyone Using Peptides?

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 went from bodybuilding forums to med spas to your feed, and the human evidence never caught up.

Zoë Rom 7/8/26 Zoë Rom 7/8/26

The Keto Diet: How Does Ketosis Work?

We follow ketosis from a Victorian undertaker's diet pamphlet to Kevin Hall's metabolic ward, then get into what actually happens when you cut carbs: why beta-oxidation has a hard ceiling, why the carbohydrate-insulin hypothesis fell apart the moment anyone controlled the food, and why the harms show up fastest in menstruating athletes.

Zoë Rom 6/25/26 Zoë Rom 6/25/26

Are Seed Oils Actually Bad for You?

Are seed oils bad for you? We break down the science, the unhinged history, and the beef tallow hype, minus the grocery-store panic and the meat sticks.

Zoë Rom 6/10/26 Zoë Rom 6/10/26

Why Am I So Hungry? The Science and Psychology of Hunger

Why am I so hungry? It's not willpower. We trace the real science of hunger, from ghrelin and leptin to the Minnesota starvation experiment and GLP-1s.

Zoë Rom 5/27/26 Zoë Rom 5/27/26

Are Artificial Sweeteners Bad for You?

Do artificial sweeteners cause cancer or wreck your gut? We break down the real science on aspartame, sucralose, stevia, and your beloved Diet Coke.

Zoë Rom 5/13/26 Zoë Rom 5/13/26

Should You Count Calories?

Should you count calories? New episode of Your Diet Sucks traces the framework from a 19th-century factory science lab through a 1918 diet book that taught American women to count as a patriotic duty, through the low-fat catastrophe of the 80s, to the FDA decision in 1990 that gave us the 2,000-calorie label. The math is messier than you've been told. Link in bio to listen.

Zoë Rom 5/4/26 Zoë Rom 5/4/26

Food Allergies, Intolerances, and Sensitivities Explained

Food allergy, food intolerance, food sensitivity: three different things. We break down what's diagnosable, what's a grift, and how to tell the difference.