Sep 11, 2026 · 30 min · 10 segments
Weight loss and longevity don’t always point in the same direction—especially after menopause. You can make the scale go down, but what if the strategy getting you there is costing you muscle…
And today it's clean eating, wellness, longevity, autophagy, anti-aging, optimization, biohacking, and sometimes those are just legitimate health goals, and others, they're simply thinness wearing a lab coat.
And some of you may have landed here because you wanna be skinny and you wanna lose weight and thought m- mistakenly that this podcast title was all about it.
I still, you know, right, walk into my closet and I want the waistline to just be cinched a little bit tighter.
And I think internally you and I both have to deal with our own demons, and then externally we have to catch each other not giving a compliment for the wrong reason, and being able to accept a compliment for the right reasons.
[laughs] It's complicated, and it's something that we've been conditioned into our entire lives, and I think we are going to have to support each other through this one.
But what I wanna do is just kind of splash open the papers and the books and let's call it what it is today, because I think the more we call attention to this and we talk about the actual thing in the room, and we don't just talk around it.
You're here, my hope is, that you're here at this podcast and you're listening because we cover good science, and it is certainly not because I'm concise and articulate all the time.
But I do think that we all have to call out the things that we're not saying, because in the name of fitness, we're looking for science, and we will say things, women will say things to me like, "That's what I want.
I want the science." But that's even said when we don't actually understand what is good science.
What, what are you looking for in good science, and do you know? I think these things are really important, and so is this one.
Social media wasn't built to make you feel good, and yet many of you tell me that you're getting your news, your information, your advice from social media.
Maybe that's how some of you found me, so I can't knock that completely over or down.
But I do want you to be careful and cautious and vet and, and step outside if you can and watch yourself and what you're doing and be sure it's motivated by the right thing.
And today it's clean eating, wellness, longevity, autophagy, anti-aging, optimization, biohacking, and sometimes those are just legitimate health goals, and others, they're simply thinness wearing a lab coat.
And some of you may have landed here because you wanna be skinny and you wanna lose weight and thought m- mistakenly that this podcast title was all about it.
I still, you know, right, walk into my closet and I want the waistline to just be cinched a little bit tighter.
And I think internally you and I both have to deal with our own demons, and then externally we have to catch each other not giving a compliment for the wrong reason, and being able to accept a compliment for the right reasons.
[laughs] It's complicated, and it's something that we've been conditioned into our entire lives, and I think we are going to have to support each other through this one.
But what I wanna do is just kind of splash open the papers and the books and let's call it what it is today, because I think the more we call attention to this and we talk about the actual thing in the room, and we don't just talk around it.
You're here, my hope is, that you're here at this podcast and you're listening because we cover good science, and it is certainly not because I'm concise and articulate all the time.
But I do think that we all have to call out the things that we're not saying, because in the name of fitness, we're looking for science, and we will say things, women will say things to me like, "That's what I want.
I want the science." But that's even said when we don't actually understand what is good science.
What, what are you looking for in good science, and do you know? I think these things are really important, and so is this one.
Social media wasn't built to make you feel good, and yet many of you tell me that you're getting your news, your information, your advice from social media.
Maybe that's how some of you found me, so I can't knock that completely over or down.
But I do want you to be careful and cautious and vet and, and step outside if you can and watch yourself and what you're doing and be sure it's motivated by the right thing.
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