The wellness-to-alt-right pipeline has led many Americans to a diet that we didn't even know we were on. Find out what's true, half-true and completely false in a sea of claims about beef liver, regenerative agriculture, raw milk, raw carrot salad, cow colostrum, bioavailability, seed oils, HTMA tests, nutritional therapy practitioners, Weston A Price, collagen, adrenal cocktails, ancestral eating, tallow skincare, the big-money vegan agenda, hormones, sourdough, fertility, cholesterol, remineralization, naked carbs, blood sugar, antinutrients, DIY baby formula, supplements, and tradwives.

Despite what most coaches would have you to believe, many of them are struggling to make the kind of money and bring in the kind of engagement, attention and enrollment they used to. Why is the coaching industry crumbling? To answer that question, we delve into several more: Why do people say the coaching industry is a giant pyramid scheme? What should people do if they feel that they've been scammed by their coach? And what's about ethical coaches?

Clinical input and research courtesy of Mary Claire Ferachi (MA, LPC, LAC) and Katie Smith (MA, LPC, MFT-C) Theme music by Will Shishmanian

What happens when spirituality and wellness-related tools end up giving us material for obsessive and unhealthy fixations?

How exactly do new-age and wellness influencers successfully convince people to give them so much money? This episode explores nine specific sales tactics, from love-bombing to prosperity gospel

Guess what- most of those divine femininity influencer ladies? sleep with each other. all the time. While simultaneously building brands off of content that only acknowledges the validity of heterosexual relationships.

wtf is homeopathy? Does it refer to all holistic health practices, or one modality in particular? How is it different from herbalism? And most importantly, does it have any credibility? 

What drives someone to do vigorous exercise in a hot room packed with smelly, stinky people? Is sweating actually an effective form of detox, and does hot yoga really deliver the workout you think it does? This episode investigates three specific hot yoga brands- Bikram Yoga, Forrest Yoga and Baptiste Yoga- and explores the question of whether or not it's ethical to create your own trademarked yoga name brand in the first place.

CW: sexual abuse

Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to 'Cornucopia' by Jose Calarco

This episode does two things: