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| Diabetes distress (it's a real thing) | 04 Nov 2026 | 00:24:25 | |
Diabetes distress is “the emotional distress resulting from living with diabetes and the burden of relentless daily self-management.” It affects at least 1 in 6 people with type 2 diabetes. In this week's episode I explore the reality of living with a chronic condition. How the scaremongering and stigma leads to healthcare avoidance, which is incorrectly labelled as non-compliance. How shame, judgement, and food policing all cause harm. And finally, I ask how exactly we're supposed to manage the burnout when healthcare professionals are working against us? If you're looking for a way to manage your blood sugar without the weight stigma and the lifestyle BS, check out my new book My Blood Sugar is High. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| How not to treat diabetes | 28 Oct 2026 | 00:24:39 | |
If you're a fat person recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, chances are you'll be told to try extreme weight loss, cut out carbs, start a GLP-1, and consider bariatric surgery. According to the people in charge, these have all been shown to improve your long term health. Except they haven't. At best, they reduce your HbA1c for a spell. In this episode, we look at what the evidence says about how NOT to treat diabetes. If you're looking for a way to manage your blood sugar without the weight stigma and the lifestyle BS, check out my new book My Blood Sugar is High Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Why you should stop chasing numbers | 21 Oct 2026 | 00:25:54 | |
We're a society that has become obsessed with our numbers. Blood pressure, cholesterol, A1c – it's not just about weight anymore. It's about the perfect metabolic profile. But just how useful is having a well controlled HbA1c in type 2 diabetes? Does it actually serve a purpose beyond bragging rights? The wellness influencers will tell you that it does (that's how they earn money). Your doctors will tell you that it does (because the guidelines say so). But the evidence says otherwise. If you're looking for a way to manage your blood sugar without the weight stigma and the lifestyle BS, check out my new book My Blood Sugar is High. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| How wellness culture influences diabetes management | 14 Oct 2026 | 00:24:11 | |
Wellness culture has a lot to answer for when it comes to diabetes management. In this episode I explore what it means to be a "bad diabetic", how society ignore systemic factors that influence blood sugar, and how doctors use toxic positivity to bypass concerns about medication. Then there's all the money that the wellness influencers and the weight loss industry makes from pushing their lies. CW for disordered eating and eating disorders. If you're looking for a way to manage your blood sugar without the weight stigma and the lifestyle BS, check out my new book My Blood Sugar is High Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| The Observational Interpretation Fallacy | 07 Oct 2026 | 00:27:03 | |
During the research I was conducting for my latest book My Blood Sugar is High, I came across the observational interpretation fallacy. First coined in December 2024, it describes how medical researchers and policymakers incorrectly infer causation from observational studies and use this to write guidelines that end up harming patients. These observations are later disproved through rigorous randomised controlled trials, but the damage is done. In this week's episode I demonstrate how the medical profession incorrectly decided that diabetes was caused by being fat and used that as an excuse to push weight loss onto type 2 diabetics in spite of the fact that a 2012 study showed NO improvement in diabetic outcomes after weight loss. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Diabetes is NOT a punishment for being fat | 30 Sep 2026 | 00:18:07 | |
Contrary to popular belief, you don't develop diabetes because you failed to watch what you ate. Steering clear of carbohydrates and staying thin won't prevent you from developing insulin resistance. In this episode, we explore the just world fallacy and why society is so hell bent on blaming fat people for developing a medical condition. If you're looking for a way to manage your blood sugar without the weight stigma and the lifestyle BS, check out my new book My Blood Sugar is High. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| I Know I'm Not Supposed to, But... | 26 Aug 2026 | 00:18:44 | |
Do you ever find yourself apologising for what you say before you say it? We've been conditioned not to get upset or rock the boat or challenge authority so that the people in power can stay in power. They feed us a kernel of truth hidden in a bucket of sh*t and expect us to swallow it. I, for one, am done eating sh*t. Join me this week as I challenge seven widely held beliefs that are designed to keep us from learning and sharing the truth about weight and healthcare. 📖Buy my book: https://mybook.to/noweigh 💫Join The No Weigh Movement: https://www.noweigh.org/ 🫂Join a community where authenticity thrives and every voice matters: https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/the-weighting-room/ 💪For the ultimate transformation in your healthcare journey, book a consultation: https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/consultations/ 📜Let me do all the work for you with the complete package for people being denied surgery because of their weight: https://www.fatdoctor.co.uk/accessing-surgery/ Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know in the comments 👇 Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| The Ruling Class Wrote The Rules and I'm Done Following Them | 19 Aug 2026 | 00:18:48 | |
Should healthcare be a basic human right or a private enterprise? All my life, I worked for the National Health Service, the so-called beacon of socialist medicine. Make no mistake, the NHS is a capitalist employer that could give Amazon a run for its money. It is controlled by the private sector and big pharma, and it is rotten at its very core. The ruling class wrote the rules that operates under long before it was formed and the ruling class will be the cause of its downfall. In these week's episode, we examine what it would take for healthcare to deliver on its promise, and whether it's all just wishful thinking. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| I'm The Child Of A Narcissist | 12 Aug 2026 | 00:29:19 | |
CW: Child abuse, death or a parent, emotional trauma Growing up with a narcissistic father has given me some insight in how to manage people in power who have a heightened sense of self importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a profound lack of empathy. I've become an expert in managing men who are entitled and expect everyone to agree with them. If you think that sounds familiar, then maybe you grew up with a narcissistic parent. Either that, or you've been to see the doctor. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Abandon All Hope Of Success | 05 Aug 2026 | 00:20:41 | |
Success is a loaded term. It comes with expectations and targets. It's measured and tracked and is closely tied with a person's worth. Not just their self worth, either. Society isn't interested in the film that doesn't get watched or the book that doesn't get read. They get tossed to one side, relegated to the bottom of the pile, and ignored for the most part. It's easy to get caught up in the benchmarks of success, but what happens when we start creating for the sake of creating? What happens when we make art or create content because we feel inspired to and not worry so much about what comes after? Abandoning all hope of success doesn't mean giving up. It means letting go of the standards set by other people and finding value in yourself and what you produce. My Joints Hurt: A Practical Guide to Navigating Healthcare in a Fat Body is available to purchase on Amazon or read on Kindle Unlimited. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| How I've Been Making Myself Smaller | 29 Jul 2026 | 00:26:00 | |
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 will take issue with it. Especially if you're visibly different — Fat, Trans, Queer, Neurodivergent. So I suffered a few setbacks over the past few years and I learned that if I don't censor or filter myself, chances are I would be punished and my words would be used against me. I learned there is a "right way" to do social justice, and if that means hiding parts of myself, then it's worth it for the greater good. Turns out that faking it doesn't work out much better, and liberation can only come when people are free to be themselves. Sounds pretty obvious when you say it out loud, but this wasn't an easy lesson for me to learn. Join me this week as I start taking up space my way, in spite of the potential future backlash. Don't forget that My Joints Hurt: A Practical Guide to Navigating Healthcare in a Fat Body is available to purchase on Amazon or read on Kindle Unlimited.
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| There Is No Solution | 22 Jul 2026 | 00:26:00 | |
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 simple words: racial capitalism. It is the reason fat people are both hated and exploited in equal measure. In this episode, I argue that putting an end to medical weight stigma requires us to do away with racial capitalism, and the people in power will never allow that to happen. That doesn't mean we should give up – it means it's time to start getting creative. Once you stop hoping for the impossible, you can start dreaming about what's actually possible. Get your copy of My Joints Hurt: A Practical Guide To Navigating Healthcare In a Fat Body Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| I'm Done Being Nice | 15 Jul 2026 | 00:23:25 | |
Asher's 10 rules for how to stop being nice: Get your copy of My Joints Hurt: A Practical Guide To Navigating Healthcare In a Fat Body Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| When "Everything's Normal" Isn't Good Enough | 10 Jun 2026 | 00:28:06 | |
When your blood tests come back normal and your doctor sends you on your way, that's not a diagnosis – that's a dismissal. In this episode, I follow Priya, a self-employed autistic woman in her late 30s whose 18 months of worsening fatigue, hair loss, skin changes, and irregular periods have been met with advice to exercise more and download a mindfulness app. I walk you through why "normal bloods" and "everything's fine" are not the same thing, which conditions are routinely missed in fat patients, and what it actually looks like when a doctor does their job properly. Because basic care isn't heroics. It's just medicine. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| My Pain Keeps Getting Dismissed! | 03 Jun 2026 | 00:28:58 | |
Fat patients with chronic pain are routinely sent away with a weight loss lecture. No examination, no blood tests, no referrals. In this episode, I introduce Suki, a teacher and mother whose two years of worsening hip and back pain have been dismissed at every turn, while her thinner colleagues walk away with physiotherapy and x-rays. I break down exactly what conditions get missed, why weight stigma is a clinical shortcut that the system is designed to profit from, and (most importantly) what to say in the room to finally get the care you deserve. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Why avoiding your doctor makes complete sense | 27 May 2026 | 00:35:38 | |
Weight stigma doesn't just happen inside the consultation room: it keeps fat people out of it entirely. In this episode, you'll meet Ren. Ren hasn't seen their GP in eighteen months, not out of laziness or neglect, but because the last appointment cost far more than it was worth. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| No Weigh! The Live Book Launch | 20 May 2026 | 00:47:20 | |
For 20 years, I prescribed weight loss without question at the same time as I was experiencing weight stigma myself as a fat doctor in a fatphobic system. In this special live episode, I'm launching my book No Weigh! Everything You've Been Told About Weight Loss Is A Lie, and sharing exactly what's in it: the lies, the money, the harm, and the tools fat people need to fight back. This isn't a book about fixing yourself. It's a book about reclaiming your power. Don't forget to order your copy today and make No Weigh! a bestselling diet book. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Big Pharma's Playbook: How the Weight Loss Industry Bought the World | 13 May 2026 | 00:39:00 | |
The pharmaceutical industry didn't just create a weight loss drug — it created a world in which you cannot escape it. In this episode, I trace Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly's systematic strategy to buy the guidelines, bribe the charities, train the doctors, and lobby the politicians — and I show you exactly how they copied it from the people who gave us the opioid crisis. This isn't conspiracy theory. It's a paper trail. And once you see it, you cannot unsee it. Pre-order your copy of No Weigh! here Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| The Lesser Known GLP-1 Lies | 06 May 2026 | 00:40:25 | |
GLP-1s are being prescribed for everything from arthritis to sleep apnea to low testosterone — with almost no evidence they treat any of it. In this episode, I expose the industry-funded research underpinning the semaglutide gold rush, the risks nobody's talking about (including one that affected a quarter of participants in the study used to license the highest dose), and the logical fallacy that's driving doctors to reach for Ozempic no matter what's wrong with you. You deserve to know the truth before you pick up that pen. Pre-order your copy of No Weigh! here Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Diab*sity: The Weight Loss Industry's Favourite Couple | 29 Apr 2026 | 00:32:43 | |
The marriage between diabetes and ob*sity is nothing more than a PR stunt dressed up as medicine — and it's been running for 25 years. In this episode, I expose how the pharmaceutical industry invented a fictional condition called prediabetes to create a market of 115 million Americans, and then quietly funded the guidelines that put weight loss at the top of the treatment agenda. This one's personal: I have diabetes and I'm done carrying the shame they built for us. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| This is Bad Medicine | 22 Apr 2026 | 00:31:02 | |
CW: Fertility treatment, organ donation, BMI based surgical denial Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Your Numbers Don't Mean What They Told You | 15 Apr 2026 | 00:36:36 | |
Your doctors told you that losing weight would help you live longer, improve your numbers, and protect you from serious illness. It was a lie, and it goes deeper than weight loss. In this episode, I break down why the "ob*sity reduces life expectancy" claim is built on bad maths, why fat may actually protect your health, and why the blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol targets your doctor is chasing have never been shown to prevent the outcomes they're supposed to prevent. Drug companies set the targets. You pay the price. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| "I Lost Weight And My Health Improved" (did it?) | 08 Apr 2026 | 00:38:07 | |
Your lived experience is real. You lost weight, your health improved, and I'm not calling you a liar. But I'm still going to tell you that weight loss didn't cause it. In this episode, I get into the post-hoc fallacy, the neuroscience of the placebo effect, and why weight loss is the perfect storm for a powerful — but ultimately unsustainable — placebo response. The benefits are slim to nil. The risks are well documented. And there are always other options. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Doctors Are Prescribing Eating Disorders | 01 Apr 2026 | 00:27:54 | |
Doctors are prescribing eating disorders to fat patients — not by accident, not in spite of the guidelines, but because of them. In this episode, I bring the clinical evidence to back up what the fat community has known for years: that severe dieting causes eating disorders, that eating disorders look nothing like the stereotype, and that fat people with eating disorders are being failed at every stage — dismissed, gaslit, and denied treatment. If you've been told to lose weight by a healthcare professional, you have the right to ask them why they're willing to put you at risk. This is the data. These are the receipts. A selection of studies to start you off:
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| We've Known About the Harms of Dieting for 80 Years | 25 Mar 2026 | 00:31:11 | |
In 1944, a group of healthy young men volunteered to be starved in the name of science. What happened to them — physically, psychologically, and socially — is one of the most important pieces of evidence we have about what dieting actually does to the human body. Evidence that has been ignored for 80 years. This week, I break down the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, asks why medicine continues to prescribe a treatment it knows causes harm, and make the case that forcing fat people to diet isn't medical care — it's cruel and unusual punishment. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Fat, cancer, and the 1 in 20 lie | 18 Mar 2026 | 00:35:27 | |
Cancer Research UK calls being fat the second biggest cause of cancer in the UK. It's a claim built on manipulated statistics, false assumptions, and funding from the weight loss industry - and it's actively killing people. In this episode, I show why the evidence for weight and cancer doesn't come close to the evidence for smoking, why population attributable fractions are a chocolate teapot, and why the breast cancer data is far more complicated than anyone is letting on. If you've ever been told your cancer risk is your own fault, this one's for you. The study on weight stigma as a barrier to cancer screening: Amy NK, Aalborg A, Lyons P, Keranen L. Barriers to routine gynecological cancer screening for White and African-American obese women. Int J Obes. 2006;30(1):147-155. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Disease Mongering: Inventing Illness To Sell A Cure | 11 Mar 2026 | 00:34:24 | |
Disease mongering has transformed human body diversity into a medical crisis requiring pharmaceutical intervention. When Ray Moynihan wrote that "there's a lot of money to be made from telling healthy people they're sick," he exposed a corporate strategy that reaches its most devastating form in the creation of "ob*sity" as a disease. This wasn't accidental harm caused while trying to help people - this was intentional pathologization of natural human variation, funded by pharmaceutical companies and legitimized through corrupt alliances between industry, doctors, and supposed patient advocacy groups. In this episode, I expose how the disease creation itself causes harm separate from any treatment: social exclusion, healthcare denial, psychological trauma, economic exploitation, and the erosion of bodily autonomy. We created a disease whose only "treatment" doesn't work and causes the very harms we attribute to the disease. They didn't just gnaw away at our self-confidence—they gnawed away at our right to exist. Moynihan, Ray, Iona Heath, and David Henry. ‘Selling Sickness: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Disease Mongering’. BMJ : British Medical Journal 324, no. 7342 (2002): 886–91. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.324.7342.886. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Why Lifestyle Advice is BS: The Mediterranean Diet Edition | 04 Mar 2026 | 00:37:42 | |
The Mediterranean diet has become medical gospel—promoted by diabetes organizations, heart health foundations, and doctors worldwide. But when I looked at the actual evidence, I found something shocking: the one major study proving its benefits was so flawed it had to be retracted. And when NICE updated their cardiovascular disease guidelines in 2023, they admitted there was "no available evidence" comparing dietary interventions to normal diets, so they made recommendations based on "clinical experience and expert opinion" instead. Ge, Long, Behnam Sadeghirad, Geoff D. C. Ball, et al. ‘Comparison of Dietary Macronutrient Patterns of 14 Popular Named Dietary Programmes for Weight and Cardiovascular Risk Factor Reduction in Adults: Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis of Randomised Trials’. The BMJ 369 (April 2020): m696. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m696. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| The Big Fat Lie: Why Your Weight Didn't Cause Your Health Condition | 25 Feb 2026 | 00:43:20 | |
Medicine has built an entire mythology around weight as the root cause of disease, including diabetes, sleep apnea, and arthritis. In this episode, I introduce you to three fictional patients whose stories expose the fatal flaws in this narrative. Through Madison's diabetes diagnosis, Mason's struggle with sleep apnea struggle, and Morgan's joint pain dismissal, I dismantle the logical fallacies that confuse association with causation. The truth is simple. Your weight didn't make you sick - but being blamed for it, denied treatment, and forced into weight cycling absolutely will. I challenge you to ask: if weight causes these conditions, why doesn't weight loss cure them? And more importantly, who profits when doctors prescribe weight loss instead of evidence-based care? Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Wellness Influencers: A 400-Year History of the Same Old BS | 18 Feb 2026 | 00:40:51 | |
Wellness culture didn't start with Instagram. From George Cheyne's 1724 bestseller to Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters redefining fat bodies as "the enemy within," the methods and ideology haven't changed in four centuries—even as the evidence proves they've never worked. In this episode, I trace wellness influencers back to the 17th century, exposing how former fat people turned their weight cycling into moral crusades, transforming fat bodies from "friendly jokes" into threats deserving punishment. These aren't just historical curiosities—they're the architects of today's war on ob*sity, and understanding their playbook helps us see modern wellness influencers for what they really are: unoriginal copycats parroting 400-year-old nonsense. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| It's Not Your Fault: The Real Factors That Control Your Weight | 11 Feb 2026 | 00:25:38 | |
The weight loss industry has convinced us that being fat is a personal failure—a consequence of eating too much and moving too little. But the truth is far more complex and liberating. Your weight is controlled by genetics, epigenetics, environmental factors, trauma, chronic stress, and systems of oppression that were intentionally designed to control marginalized bodies. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| When Doctors Lie: The Guidelines That Recommend Diets They Know Don't Work | 04 Feb 2026 | 00:47:57 | |
In 1992, a room full of weight loss experts admitted diets don't work and that weight regain is almost inevitable within five years. Then they recommended diets anyway. Fast forward to 2025, and the UK's NICE guidelines acknowledge weight cycling causes harm, that the evidence is overwhelmingly poor quality, and that people will likely regain the weight. Yet they still recommend 800-calorie diets, even for people with eating disorders. In this episode, I expose how medical guidelines have become a masterclass in institutional lying—where committees acknowledge the evidence shows diets fail, cause harm, and offer no long-term benefit, yet recommend them regardless. Because the industry's already doing it, the government's already funding it, and admitting the truth would be too expensive. This isn't medicine. This is willful harm dressed up in clinical language, and the people writing these guidelines need to be held accountable. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| How Big Pharma Made Up a Disease | 28 Jan 2026 | 00:27:59 | |
In 1995, the WHO published a report stating clearly: "There are no clearly established cutoff points for fat mass or fat percentage that can be translated into cut-offs for BMI." Just three short years later, they published a completely different report calling ob*sity a "disease". Not just a disease, but a "rapidly growing threat" and a "global epidemic" that needed managing. What changed? Professor Philip James established the International Ob*sity Task Force—funded by the pharmaceutical industry—specifically to persuade the WHO to create ob*sity policy. When asked how he determined BMI cut-offs of 25, 30, and 40, Professor James admitted it "just seemed to fit"—a "reasonable, pragmatic cut-off." In this episode, I prove that being fat doesn't meet the definition of a disease: there's no impaired function, no characteristic symptoms, no causative agent. But calling it a disease created a market worth billions for weight loss companies, drug manufacturers, and bariatric surgeons. You're not the one who benefits from being diagnosed with ob*sity—they are. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| There is no such thing as a healthy weight | 21 Jan 2026 | 00:39:09 | |
We've been told our entire lives that there's such a thing as a "healthy weight" - but the foundations of this belief are built on quicksand. In this episode, I trace the shocking history of how weight categories were created, exposing the corrupt origins of BMI and "ideal weight" tables invented by life insurance companies to maximize profits. I reveal how Louis Dublin, an employee of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company who literally wrote a book called "The Money Value of a Man," created arbitrary weight standards that had no basis in reality - and how these numbers kept dropping with no scientific justification. What would life be like if Dublin had got decided that "abnormally tall" people needed to shrink to be healthy? I use this thought experiment to demonstrate the absurdity of medicalizing body size, especially since we've no evidence that “excess weight” causes illness or that intentional weight loss improves health outcomes. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| I Wrote A Book! | 14 Jan 2026 | 00:32:44 | |
After three false starts and years of research, I've finally finished the first draft of No Weigh. This wasn't supposed to be just another book debunking weight science—it became something more fundamental. I realized I'd been centering myself as a doctor, performing credibility for my colleagues, when I should have been writing for fat patients. This book is for us, about us, written by one of us who happens to have a medical degree. I'm done performing humility and apologizing for the evidence. I'm done trying to convince resistant doctors who already see the truth in their own clinical practice but refuse to acknowledge it. Instead, I'm bringing receipts to validate what you already know: the treatment is the problem, the cure doesn't work, and it's all been by design. From the shocking corruption in UK guidelines with 31-page stakeholder lists, to what we're doing to children, to the fundamental lie that there's such a thing as a "healthy weight"—I'm exposing it all, not to convince doctors, but to arm fat people with the evidence we need to fight back. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Seasons Greetings from the Fat Doctor | 17 Dec 2025 | 00:27:36 | |
In this season finale, I'm stripping away the should-dos and reminding you of what truly matters: your rest is non-negotiable, your boundaries deserve enforcement, and joy isn't something you earn—it's your birthright. I share what I've learned about unmasking, choosing authenticity over performance, and grabbing those small moments of joy even when the world feels overwhelming. This isn't about toxic positivity—it's about protecting your peace in a world that constantly demands you put yourself last. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Destroying 10 Lies That Are Used to Justify Weight Based Discrimination | 10 Dec 2025 | 00:36:20 | |
After a year of exploring wellness culture and its discriminatory foundations, I've identified 10 arguments people use to justify discrimination against fat people—and I'm dismantling every single one. From the "health concern" disguise to the false claim that being fat is a choice, from economic justifications to the burden of proof fallacy, these arguments collapse under scrutiny. Download your copy of Fat, Festive and Fierce here Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| The Logical Fallacies That Season Your Holiday Fatphobia | 03 Dec 2025 | 00:37:27 | |
This holiday season, you'll hear countless claims about weight and health dressed up as concern or common sense. But beneath every "everybody knows" and "the experts say" lies a logical fallacy waiting to be dismantled. In this episode, I arm you with the tools to recognize and challenge the flawed reasoning behind anti-fat rhetoric from ad hominem attacks to deliberately vague language designed to make illogical arguments sound scientific." Whether you're facing concern trolling from relatives or rage-watching haters online, understanding these patterns of illogic reveals what's really happening: weak arguments from people who have nothing substantive to offer, desperately trying to justify discrimination while you're armed with evidence, reason, and the power to walk away. Download your copy of Fat, Festive and Fierce here. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| When Healthcare Becomes Compliance Theater | 19 Nov 2025 | 00:48:15 | |
Healthcare's approach to diabetes has become less about treating a disease and more about fixing the person. In this episode, I walk through Cosmo's fictional-but-familiar journey from diagnosis through multiple medications to a specialist referral that came with a homework assignment. When we receive forms asking us to set goals, rate our confidence, and think about what our blood sugar levels "mean to us" before we've even met a clinician, we're being set up to fail. I examine how medical professionals have shifted responsibility for treatment outcomes onto patients, turning a manageable chronic condition into a moral failure requiring correction—and why this approach drives people away from the care they desperately need. If you're dreading your next diabetic review, my online course gives you everything the diabetes clinic should have given you: understanding, empowerment, and practical tools—without the shame. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Ignoring the Harm: Why We Justify Suffering for Weight Loss | 12 Nov 2025 | 00:32:10 | |
When doctors recommend weight loss, they describe the supposed benefits but remain silent about the harms—reduced metabolism, increased appetite, hormonal disruption, eating disorders, and profound mental health impacts. This ethical failure extends beyond outdated diet advice to newer interventions like GLP-1 medications, where we celebrate short-term metabolic improvements while ignoring gastrointestinal distress, financial burden, social isolation, and unknown long-term consequences. In this episode, Asher challenges the dangerous assumption that fat people should suffer to become thinner, exposing how this narrative serves the weight loss industry's profits while treating fat bodies as unworthy of basic ethical consideration in healthcare. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Why It's So Hard To Just BE Fat | 05 Nov 2025 | 00:27:41 | |
We've been taught to hate and fear fat bodies in equal measure—for social reasons, moral reasons, and medicalized health reasons that justify the first two. Society tells us fat people don't belong, that we're unacceptable, abnormal, and undesirable. We're judged as lazy, undisciplined moral failures who are stealing resources from those who deserve them. And when these prejudices become too uncomfortable to defend, health concern provides the perfect cover. In this episode, I break down exactly why it's so hard to accept that it's okay to be fat, even for rational, critical-thinking people who should know better. Because when you understand why society has framed fat bodies as a problem, you can begin to resist internalizing that message. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Taylor's story: What if everyone else is right and we're wrong? | 15 Oct 2025 | 00:38:25 | |
Taylor was diagnosed with sleep apnea six months ago and told the only real solution was weight loss. Like so many fat people, they've tried every diet imaginable—keto, Weight Watchers, calorie counting—and watched their weight cycle up and down for years. When a friend introduced them to intuitive eating and the anti-diet movement, it felt revolutionary. But the what-ifs started creeping in. What if I just keep eating and never stop? What if this damages my health? What if everyone saying "just lose weight" is actually right, and I'm the one who's wrong? In this episode, I walk through Taylor's very real, very valid fears about ditching diets for good—because when you're fat, choosing to stop pursuing weight loss isn't just giving up dieting. It's accepting you may never access the privileges thin people get automatically, from medical care to airplane seats to basic dignity. I talk about why these fears are legitimate, what the evidence actually says, and why fat people need other fat people—not thin allies—to navigate this journey. Don't forget to order your copy of the Stop Dreading Doctor's Appointments toolkit here. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| The Weight Loss Lie: A History of Medical Mistakes | 08 Oct 2025 | 00:36:02 | |
We've been told our entire lives that losing weight will prevent health problems. But where did this belief come from? In this episode, I trace the shocking history of how insurance companies, pharmaceutical funding, and arbitrary statistical cut-offs created the mythical illness we now know as "ob*sity" crisis. From Quetelet's obsession with the "average man" to the International Ob*sity Task Force's pharmaceutical funding, I expose how we've been working off logical fallacies for over a century. There's no evidence that being fat causes health conditions, no evidence of a "healthy weight for height," and no evidence that weight loss improves health outcomes. It's time we stopped treating statistical artifacts as medical truth. Don't forget to order your copy of the Stop Dreading Doctor's Appointments toolkit. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| You Deserve Better: The Fat Doctor's Reassurance on Your Right To Healthcare | 01 Oct 2025 | 00:40:51 | |
In a healthcare system that routinely dismisses, blames, and denies treatment to fat patients, it's easy to doubt whether choosing to stay fat is the right decision. But here's the truth: you deserve a doctor who listens, believes, and validates you—regardless of your size. You have the absolute right to refuse to be weighed, to refuse weight loss, and to demand treatment without prerequisites. The ethics are clear, even when the reality feels impossible. This episode is your reminder that you're making the right choice, and that the fight for dignified healthcare is both justified and winnable. Make sure to get your copy of the Stop Dreading Doctor's Appointments toolkit. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Casey's story: When good intentions aren't enough | 17 Sep 2025 | 00:32:02 | |
Casey is a passionate, well-meaning therapist who believes in weight-inclusive care but freezes when clients bring up medical concerns. They've learned about anti-diet principles through Instagram and podcasts, but lack the medical knowledge to counter doctors' weight-focused advice. When a client receives a devastating diabetes diagnosis with the usual "lose weight" lecture, Casey wants to help but secretly wonders if the doctor might be right. Add in family pressure about their own weight, hostile colleagues questioning their approach, and the constant fear of professional consequences - and you have a dedicated professional caught between their values and their limitations. In this episode, I explore why therapists like Casey deserve support, not judgment, and how we can bridge the gap between good intentions and confident, evidence-based practice in the fight for weight-inclusive healthcare. For anti-diet and healthcare professionals, it's time to stop second-guessing your weight-inclusive approach, and get the research, tools, and professional certification to confidently counter medical weight bias: Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Weight Loss Doesn't Improve Your Health | 10 Sep 2025 | 00:30:24 | |
Weight loss doesn't improve your health—and I'm tired of having to prove it. While doctors continue pushing weight loss as a cure-all, the evidence tells a different story. The Look AHEAD Study followed 5,000 diabetics for 10 years and found that weight loss didn't prevent heart attacks or strokes. Similar studies show no long-term benefits for diabetes, arthritis, blood pressure, or fatty liver disease. Yet fat patients are still forced to advocate for basic medical care while being blamed for conditions that have nothing to do with their weight. It's time for healthcare professionals to stop putting the burden on patients and start practicing evidence-based, weight-inclusive care. For anti-diet and healthcare professionals, it's time to stop second-guessing your weight-inclusive approach, and get the research, tools, and professional certification to confidently counter medical weight bias: Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| When 'nice' isn't enough: The search for truly safe care | 03 Sep 2025 | 00:38:41 | |
Some healthcare professionals are nice. Some would go so far as to call themselves “body positive" or “HAES aligned”. But being pleasant doesn't make you safe for fat patients. There's a crucial difference between practitioners who are steadfastly kind while perpetuating harm, and those who actively work to counter medical weight bias. In this episode, I expose why often times anti-diet isn't enough, how well-meaning professionals can cause more damage than obvious bigots, and why fat people are trapped in an endless cycle of seeking help, getting weight loss advice, and avoiding care until they're desperate. I challenge anti-diet practitioners to move beyond good intentions and actually do the work to become weight-inclusive. Plus, I debunk the dangerous myths about anaesthesia safety that are used to deny fat people surgery. Want to learn more about anaesthesia? Then check out my masterclass today! Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Jordan's Story: When Endometriosis Gets Blamed on Being Fat | 20 Aug 2025 | 00:37:40 | |
Jordan's seven GP visits for debilitating period pain, fatigue, and pelvic symptoms should have led to an endometriosis diagnosis within the first appointment. Instead, every symptom was blamed on weight, leaving them dismissed, traumatized, and untreated. In this episode, I expose how medical fatphobia intersects with misogyny to deny fat people proper gynecological care, and why being fat makes you fundamentally unsafe with most doctors. Through Jordan's story, I reveal the devastating reality that fat patients face when seeking help for legitimate medical conditions. Like the sound of the Consulting Room? DOORS OPEN TODAY AND CLOSE ON THE 29th AUGUST. Find out more here. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| My Weight Says Nothing About Who I Am | 13 Aug 2025 | 00:29:47 | |
Society has conditioned us to believe that our weight reveals everything about our character, intelligence, willpower, and worth as human beings. From childhood, we're taught that fat bodies represent moral failure, laziness, and unworthiness of love or respect. In this raw and powerful episode, I dismantle the extensive list of harmful stereotypes we've internalized about ourselves and call out healthcare professionals who perpetuate discrimination. I explore how these beliefs shape our relationships, our sense of self-worth, and our right to exist fully in the world—and why it's time to reject these lies completely. Find out more about the weighting room and become part of a one-of-a-kind community Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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| Fat People Are Not Entitled to Autonomy | 06 Aug 2025 | 00:32:09 | |
Medical autonomy is supposedly a fundamental pillar of healthcare - the right to make informed decisions about your own body without coercion. But as I discovered in a conversation with my husband Junior, a fat dentist, this principle simply doesn't apply when you're fat. In this episode, I expose how the medical profession systematically denies autonomy to fat patients, exploring the difference between theoretical rights and practical agency, and why doctors can get away with withholding treatment until you lose weight. I also introduce The Weigh Forward - my new service to help fat patients fight back against medical discrimination through formal complaints and advocacy. Got a question for the next podcast? Let me know! Connect With Me
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