This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Q&A: A critical look at diet advice for period pain and endometriosis. This episode was originally published in 2023. Check out the transcript for links to all referenced studies. The full version of this episode is for paid subscribers. Listen to the first question here, and sign up for a paid subscription to hear the rest! Christy's second book, The Wellness Trap , is available wherever books are ...
Jul 14, 2025•11 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Christy answers an audience question about how much protein you really need—and explores why a certain piece of incorrect advice is so popular among influencers and “protein girlies.” The full version of this episode is for paid subscribers. Listen to the first question here, and sign up for a paid subscription to hear the rest! Get full show notes and references here . Ask a question of your own for a ...
Jul 07, 2025•5 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Christy discusses the carnivore diet, why it’s concerning from a disordered-eating perspective, and what the science really says about this fad diet that doesn’t want to die. This episode is for paid subscribers. Listen to a free preview here, and sign up for a paid subscription to hear the full episode! Get full show notes and references here . Christy's second book, The Wellness Trap , is available wh...
Jun 23, 2025•4 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Misinformation and media-literacy researcher Matthew Facciani joins us to discuss how he defines misinformation at a time when even the term itself is polarizing, why there’s so much misinformation about health and wellness in particular, how to navigate the current information landscape given the continued erosion of trust in institutions, and why people with certain ideologies are more likely to belie...
Jun 16, 2025•35 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Christy answers an audience question about the diets you don’t need to try in (peri)menopause—and ways to get your loved ones to stop talking about them. The full version of this episode is for paid subscribers. Listen to the first question here, and sign up for a paid subscription to hear the rest! Get full show notes and references here . Ask a question of your own for a chance to have it answered in ...
Jun 09, 2025•4 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Science and parenting journalist Melinda Wenner Moyer returns to discuss the importance of self-compassion and how to practice it, why conveying a growth mindset is much more helpful to kids than giving compliments about fixed qualities, misconceptions about resilience (and what the science really says), the difference between trauma and healthy distress, and her new book, HELLO, CRUEL WORLD: Science-Ba...
Jun 02, 2025•32 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Christy discusses what she’s been going through with IVF and how it’s affected her body image, plus 5 things she’s trying to keep in mind as she navigates a changing body—especially as we enter the summer season, with all the diet- and wellness-culture pressures that go along with it. This episode is for paid subscribers. Listen to a free preview here, and sign up for a paid subscription to hear the ful...
May 26, 2025•6 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Journalist Virginia Sole-Smith joins us to discuss how GLP-1 hype has changed the conversation about diet culture, the importance of body autonomy, how “bro” diet culture became public policy, how she handles haters, the “fed is best” approach to parenting, and lots more. Behind the paywall, she shares her experience of weighing herself for the first time in years, what it’s been like to date for the fi...
May 19, 2025•38 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Christy answers an audience question about whether fasting can help with chronic fatigue related to Long Covid—and what to do if your doctor recommends fasting when you have a history of disordered eating. The full version of this episode is for paid subscribers. Listen to the first question here, and sign up for a paid subscription to hear the rest! Get full show notes and references here . Ask a quest...
May 12, 2025•4 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Health-misinformation researcher and science communicator Timothy Caulfield returns to discuss his new book THE CERTAINTY ILLUSION, why being too certain about anything makes us vulnerable to misinformation, how intellectual humility can help protect us, why science is sometimes “full of shit” and how to be a critical consumer of it, and more. Behind the paywall, we get into why it’s so hard for public ...
May 05, 2025•40 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Christy answers an audience question about the “adrenal body type” and unpacks the weight stigma, ageism, and pseudoscience embedded in this twist on the dubious diagnosis of “adrenal fatigue.” The full version of this episode is for paid subscribers. Listen to the first question here, and sign up for a paid subscription to hear the rest! Get full show notes and references here . Ask a question of your ...
Apr 28, 2025•9 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Parent coach Oona Hanson joins us to discuss how going to a physical therapist for back pain led her down a wellness-culture rabbit hole, why dietary restrictions to “fight inflammation” just ended up harming her relationship with food and her body, how she got the dubious diagnosis of “adrenal fatigue,” and more. Behind the paywall, we get into how she helped her child heal from an eating disorder (and...
Apr 21, 2025•43 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Christy discusses vitamin D for blood-sugar control and preventing diabetes (part of our series on commonly used supplements ). If you spend a lot of time in online wellness spaces, you’ve probably heard a lot about how supplementing with vitamin D can supposedly regulate blood sugar and prevent diabetes. Even some mainstream diabetes organizations promote this idea, based on a small number of studies t...
Apr 14, 2025•3 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Philosopher and medical ethics professor Arianne Shavisi joins us to discuss why alternative medicine isn’t the answer to a patriarchal healthcare system—and why in many ways it’s even worse. We get into the common misconception that alternative medicine is feminist, how alternative medicine differs from scientific medicine, the role of values in people’s attraction to alternative medicine, and more. Be...
Apr 07, 2025•42 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Christy discusses how to tell whether your symptoms are related to perimenopause or something else, what perimenopause has in common with dubious diagnoses (even though it’s a real condition), and what the best available evidence says about hormone therapy, weight gain, and more. This episode is for paid subscribers. Listen to a free preview here, and sign up for a paid subscription to hear the full epi...
Mar 31, 2025•8 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Author and activist Amanda Martinez Beck joins us to discuss her experience of taking Ozempic for diabetes while also working to accept her body and break down anti-fat bias in society. She shares her history of dieting and disordered eating, how chronic conditions including diabetes as well as fibromyalgia and post-Covid syndrome have impacted her relationship with food and her body, why she started ta...
Mar 24, 2025•34 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com In this bonus episode, Christy shares some personal thoughts on how anxiety impacts the gut, and how to handle digestive distress that’s triggered by stress without getting pulled down wellness-culture rabbit holes—particularly if you have a history of disordered eating. The full version of this episode (with 9 tips for coping) is for paid subscribers. Listen to a free preview here, and sign up for a pa...
Mar 17, 2025•8 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Returning guest Amelia Hruby—who is now our very own podcast producer, as well as a podcaster in her own right with a PhD in philosophy—co-hosts this special episode for the 2-year anniversary of Rethinking Wellness. We discuss how Amelia’s thinking about astrology and tarot has shifted since her first appearance on the pod, why the spirituality-to-QAnon/MAGA pipeline is still going strong, how editing ...
Mar 10, 2025•31 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Dietitian and diabetes educator Janice Dada joins us to discuss why there’s so much stigma and blame on people with diabetes, the wellness-culture belief that people can “reverse diabetes” by restricting foods and taking a bunch of supplements, why people don’t “give themselves diabetes” by eating too much sugar, the myth that people with diabetes can’t eat sugar or carbs, her new book on intuitive eati...
Mar 03, 2025•30 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Christy answers an audience question about the health effects of taking vitamin D supplements. The full version of this episode is for paid subscribers. Listen to the first question here, and sign up for a paid subscription to hear the rest! Get full show notes and references here . Ask a question of your own for a chance to have it answered in a future episode! Christy's second book, The Wellness Trap ...
Feb 24, 2025•3 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Registered dietitian and INTUITIVE EATING co-author Elyse Resch returns to help dispel myths about intuitive eating, including that it means only listening to instinct and not the rational brain, that it’s incompatible with eating-disorder recovery, that it’s impossible in an environment rife with “ultraprocessed” foods, and more. She also shares her definition of gentle nutrition, plus some behind-the-...
Feb 17, 2025•34 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com In this solo episode, Christy shares an essay about what her daughter’s experience with the flu taught her about intuitive eating and the importance of certain nutrients. The piece is also out today in written form on Substack . This episode is for paid subscribers. Listen to a free preview here, and sign up for a paid subscription to hear the full episode! Get full show notes and references here . Chri...
Feb 10, 2025•3 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com 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. In the free version, we get into how disordered eating can trigger and aggravate chronic conditions, why she believed she had “adrenal fatigue” and “leaky gut,” the role of obsession and OCD in orthorex...
Feb 03, 2025•31 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Christy answers an audience question about the health effects of taking vitamin D supplements. This will be the first in a multi-part series; today, we’re tackling claims about vitamin D for fertility, pregnancy, and PCOS. The full version of this episode is for paid subscribers. Listen to the first question here, and sign up for a paid subscription to hear the rest! Get full show notes and references h...
Jan 27, 2025•3 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Novelist, editor, and longtime friend of the pod Jonathan Vatner joins us to discuss his experience with a chronic autoimmune digestive condition, his ups and downs with diets and alternative medicine, nuances in the research on probiotics and acupuncture, the mind-body connection and how it’s helped in his healing, and more. Behind the paywall, we get into how he came to develop acceptance for his chro...
Jan 20, 2025•36 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Christy answers an audience question about whether magnesium is really the panacea it’s made out to be—or whether it’s just another example of wellness-culture hype. The full version of this episode is for paid subscribers. Listen to the first question here, and sign up for a paid subscription to hear the rest! Get full show notes and references here . Ask a question of your own for a chance to have it ...
Jan 13, 2025•4 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Dietitian and author Jenna Hollenstein joins us to discuss her experience with alcoholism and recovery, the intersection of disordered eating and disordered drinking, the sobriety trend in wellness culture, Dry January, mindful drinking, “food addiction,” and more. Paid subscribers can hear the full interview, and the first half is available to all listeners. To upgrade to paid, go to rethinkingwellness...
Jan 06, 2025•39 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com What if disagreements and differences are a matter of risk perception? Plus: Is weight loss really the only way to be well? The full version of this episode is for paid subscribers. Listen to the first part here, and sign up for a paid subscription to hear the rest (including the full answer about weight loss and wellness)! Get show notes and references here . Christy's second book, The Wellness Trap , ...
Dec 23, 2024•6 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Anti-diet personal stylist Dacy Gillespie joins us to discuss diet and wellness culture, her bad experience with functional medicine (and what attracted her to it in the first place), how she’s dealing with her chronic symptoms now, and why she doesn’t think clothes should be “flattering.” Behind the paywall, we get into how to shop for clothes after your body changes, how to start discovering your auth...
Dec 16, 2024•38 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com Christy answers an audience question about how to talk to people who swear by certain alternative-medicine treatments—especially when they push them on you. The full version of this episode is for paid subscribers. Listen to the first question here, and sign up for a paid subscription to hear the rest! Get full show notes and references here . Ask a question of your own for a chance to have it answered ...
Dec 09, 2024•6 min
