Making It Awkward

Jessica Wilson is joined by medical historian Dr. Bethany Johnson of University of South Carolina* to talk everything measles: their history, what we should know, what won't treat them, and what happens after someone has them. Bethany gets deep into the medical history of measles and mumps outbreaks and the two talk about RFK's claim that everyone got measles when he was a kid and it all worked out fine. Bethany also deconstructs RFK's cocktail for treating the Texas outbreak. She invites RFK to put his immunity where his mouth is and will definitely be back on the show to talk more about medical history.

*Jessica said University of Southern California even though she read Bethany's bio word for word and listened to the intro like 5 times. Sorry Bethany!

Dr. Robert Lustig episode about eugenics

Bethany's book!

Links from Bethany:

Building the Worlds that Kill Us, by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz

Marketplace of the Marvelous, Erika Janik

Pale Rider by Laura Spinney

Good follows:

@sciencewhizliz [Who she mentioned]

@laurel_bristow

@raventhesciencemaven [A scientist who also had long COVID]

@epidemiologistkat

@unbiascedsciencepod

A quick look at the history of measles vaccine policy

Also, here's a great infographic series from @unbiascedsciencepod about how contracting measles is not, in fact, a good thing

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Jessica Wilson, MS RD is joined by Dr. Kelly Brownell, Director Emeritus of the World Food Policy Center at Duke University. The two talk about soda taxes, food systems, policy, and marketing. Jessica asks Dr. Brownell about the Duke World Food Policy Center's Identifying and Countering White Supremacy Culture in Food Systems report. And to wrap up, Dr. Brownell shares how he thinks we achieve healthy food as a human right.

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ShopRite in Philadelphia

Berkeley soda taxes

Taxes in other countries

World Food Policy Center's info on soda taxes

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Jessica Wilson is joined by author Tessa Rapaczynski for the next episode in the re-grifting series. Tessa's article for Medium titled "The Long Con and dirty dong of Andrew Huberman, PhD" immediately caught my eye. Today's episode is their conversation about the evolution of Huberman and his path from nerdy professor who didn't leave his lab to podcast bro with 7.3 million followers and multiple identities.

The two discuss Tessa's initial connection to Huberman and his work and the evolution of Wellness spaces to use words like "optimization."

The two also reference the Mar. 25, 2024,New Yorker article by Kerry Howley titled: "Andrew Huberman's Mechanisms of Control; The private and public seductions of the world's biggest pop neuroscientist."

Links mentioned:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DFVtQ3MSVgn/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGoFgqCPr85/?hl=en

McGill article

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Eating disorder awareness week is this week and it falls during Black History Month. Tigress Osborn, Dr. Whitney Trotter, Angela Goens and Elizabeth Ayiku return to the pod to talk about these intersections and Elizabeth's film Me Little Me. Elizabeth first talked about the film on the pod 11/7/24.

They chat about their thoughts on the film, how it's been received at festivals and by the eating disorder field at large. They end by discussing how folks can support this important film!

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Skittle-fed beef? Jessica joined recent guests Dr. Sarah Dougherty and Mackenzie Behrle at Harmon and Son Beef in Grants Pass, OR for a farm tour and chat with recent guest Trampus Harmon. Jessica went to the farmers market there and got to talk to folks about raw milk, RFK Jr and vaccines in a red county. She shares those conversations today.

Then the four of them gathered in Trampus's living room for a wide ranging conversation that includes skittle-fed cows, this administration's impact on farming and the safety of the food supply.

You heard from Corban at Nuna Farms in this episode

Natalie kicks off the episode with a voice memo.

Skittle-fed cows⁠?!

Fox News story

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This week registered dietitian Jessica Wilson chats with agricultural teacher, Mackenzie Berhle, about farm subsidies and cheese caves. Mackenzie talks about agricultural check off programs, and the dairy buyout (or buy back) program. They discuss got milk? and milk in school lunches.

The two get into Big Cheese, and cheese caves and Jessica is very confused about where and to whom the money, milk and cheese flow.

Also, Mackenzie shares her experience checking out farming in caves and her incredibly expensive cheese.

Links:

Check off programs

Dairy Management Inc. (DMI)

Government cheese

Cheese caves

McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and Wendy's to develop cheesier products

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Jessica's dad is back to read some podcast feedback and some brief thoughts on RFK Jr.

You'll hear

• ​Jen and Jessica were called mean girls
• ​Jessica can't disprove the "science" of Mark Hyman
• ​Proof that mercury doesn't cause autism
• ​How people don't realize two things can be true at the same time
• ​How her dad feels about getting his vitamins via IV therapy.

Then the rest of this episode is for the new folks, the seasoned listeners who want a refresher or were too afraid to listen to my interview with Jeff Hutt the first time. And it's for all of us to remember and understand the way that one passionate guy and a few of his friends can influence the course of history.

Original show notes about MAHA:

For the first episode about Make America Healthy Again, Jessica is joined by Mr Jeff Hutt, the spokesperson for the Super PAC. MAHA is "a powerful new political action committee dedicated to advancing the health-focused policies championed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. through the re-election of President Donald Trump." Mr. Hutt provides an overview of the PAC and its principles, and the two have a wide ranging conversation about food, sustainable farming, corporate capture, mama bears, medical freedom and the concept of "again."

Jessica is curious about the connections between MAHA, Wellness culture, and her own work; something that will be further explored in part 2.

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What's left to say? After episodes about vaccines and just general science. Jessica has been thinking about what she could add to the RFK Jr. conversation and realized there's something that hasn't been quite clear. As dangerous as Kennedy's anti-science stance is, he is also incredibly basic.

Today Jessica is joined by Dr. Natalie Ingraham to review both the Senate Finance Committee and Senate HELP Committee hearings and recent developments along the path to HHS Secretary. The two talk about how he was caught in his lies, his grilling by Senator Warren, and his quote about Black people needing a different vaccine schedule.

RFK Jr. was recommended Tuesday to the full Senate for a vote to become Secretary of HHS.

Discussed:

Onesies

Angela Alsobrooks

Denying he said what he said

Elizabeth Warren clip

Quote on abortion

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Jessica Wilson, MS RD is joined by pod editor Jen Jacobs to kick off the Re-Grifting series. Dr. Mark Hyman is the first to be featured having introduced himself to Jessica over instagram. He is a co-founder of health-tech start-up Function Health and a huge fan of supplements. Mark was part of the group of food-fluencers who influenced the FDA to ban red dye no. 3.

The NYT recently had a profile about the development of his wellness empire and his bromance and collaborations with RFK Jr.

A few of the articles mentioned:

The Daniel Plan

Call to Action from Mark

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/aafp-functional-medicine-lacks-supporting-evidence-includes-harmful-and-dangerous-treatments/

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Dr. Sarah Dougherty, DVM joins Jessica Wilson, MS RD to talk about everything from bird flu and raw milk, to bovine colostrum, Ivermectin, how to interpret research, probiotics for pets, influencers, and how to keep our pets safe and healthy when it comes to bird flu and pet food. Jessica asks her what she's most concerned about with the incoming administration.

Sarah also shares a bit about her upbringing which includes living down the road from last week's guest farmer Trampus Harmon!

Pet rescue resources

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