The Truth About Modern Health (Nobody Wants to Hear)

Modern food, modern medicine, and the way we work were built for productivity. Your biology paid the bill. The data has been sitting in plain view the whole time.The opening episode of Built Human. Andrew Coca and Jon Marchetti get into the conversation most health shows quietly avoid: why standard advice keeps failing the people following it most carefully. Then they get into the bigger stories shaping the modern food fight, from the protein-bar question to the food dye bans rolling out state by state, and what the policy shift looks like at the grocery store.If you've spent years following the rules on food, fitness, sleep, and stress and still feel worse than you did ten years ago, start here.What we cover:Why standard health advice keeps failing the people following it most carefullyWhat Animal Base is, and how it organizes a real-food life around what you eat, how you live, and how you restThe protein-bar question and what it actually revealsThe food dye bans and how they're showing up at the grocery storeFollow Built Human at @builthuman for the most thought-provoking moments from the show and the small reminders worth carrying into your week.Your hosts: Andrew Coca is the founder of Animal Base and President of Modern.tech, sharing his pursuit as a pro-human technologist at @andrew.j.coca. Jon Marchetti is the Director of Animal Base, documenting his own journey at @marchy495.For more on Animal Base, the curated marketplace Andrew and Jon are building around what you eat, how you live, and how you rest, visit animalbase.com.