Maintenance Phase

By: Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
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  • Debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams and nonsensical nutrition advice.
    © 2025 Maintenance Phase
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  • Blue Zones
    Jan 30 2025

    The places where humans live the longest are explained by traditional lifestyles, widespread incest or systematic fraud, there is no fourth option.

    Thanks to Catherine MacDonald for helping us research and fact-check this episode!

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    • The global pattern of centenarians highlights deep problems in demography
    • Late-life mortality is underestimated because of data errors
    • Supercentenarian and remarkable age records exhibit patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud
    • Do People in ‘Blue Zones’ Actually Live Longer?
    • They really are that old: a validation study of centenarian prevalence in Okinawa
    • The Real Facts Supporting Jeanne Calment as the Oldest Ever Human
    • A Population Where Men Live As Long As Women: Villagrande Strisaili, Sardinia
    • Typologies of Extreme Longevity Myths
    • Sardinian dietary analysis for longevity: a review of the literature
    • Identification of a geographic area characterized by extreme longevity in the Sardinia island
    • Specific features of the oldest old from the Longevity Blue Zones in Ikaria and Sardinia
    • Making the Blue Zones: Neoliberalism and nudges in public health promotion
    • Human longevity: Genetics or Lifestyle?
    • Familial transmission of human longevity

    Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • BONUS: What's New With RFK Jr.?
    Dec 20 2024

    Because we live in hell, here is last month's bonus episode about RFK Jr.'s presidential campaign with a new intro about what he could do at HHS.

    See you next year!

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Richard Simmons Isn't Missing
    Nov 21 2024

    The internet gets weird investigating the "disappearance" of America's gay best friend.

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    • Watch Aubrey’s documentary in AU & NZ, or watch it at home anywhere else!
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    • Richard Simmons Show
    • Richard Simmons, the Original Queer Eye
    • The Grand Duke of Diet and the Clown Prince of Fitness
    • The Sultan of Svelte
    • The Deregulation Of Commercial Television
    • Simmons Says Slapping Mesa Man Was Meant as Playful
    • Richard Simmons’ Life Was a ‘Never-Ending Work in Progress’
    • Richard Simmons ordered to pay $130,000 after transgender lawsuit
    • Richard Simmons' family asks Pauly Shore to please stop
    • Pauly Shore's Richard Simmons biopic might actually be dead
    • Richard Simmons' Death Was an 'Accident'
    • Richard Simmons' Housekeeper of 35 Years Breaks Her Silence
    • How eating disorders can damage the heart

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    1 hr and 6 mins

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my favourite podcast

loved it. love every episode. presenters are wonderful and hilarious and you learn something new every time

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Addictive, mind-blowing, intelligent: myth-busting at its best

Funny, smart, and important, the duo addresses bad science and social attitudes based on bias rather than facts. A refreshing take that keeps growing on you.

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Very entertaining - lots of fun facts

All kinds of interesting things you never knew about the founder of Pilates. Nothing controversial about the exercise method itself, just the interesting, amusing and sometimes strange history surrounding it. A great commute listen. Thank you.

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