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The Claims Department
by UltraSignup
The Claims Department is a science podcast about health, fitness, and nutrition, hosted by journalist Zoë Rom and exercise physiologist Dr. Nick Tiller. Zoë and Nick dig into the studies, headlines, trends, and extremely confident internet takes telling you how to train, eat, recover, and live. They figure out what holds up, what falls apart, and what any of it can teach us about getting fitter, feeling better, and thinking critically. Skeptical, not cynical. An UltraSignup podcast.
Episodes
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The Enhanced Games: What Happened at the Steroid Olympics and When You Juice to the Gills?
In May 2026, the Enhanced Games (aka the "Steroid Olympics") promised to show what humans could do once you stripped away anti-doping rules: medically supervised PEDs, million-dollar bonuses for world records, and a new frontier in human performance. The result was one world record, a swimmer who...
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Should You Trust AI With Your Training, Diet, or Health?
Hundreds of millions of people now ask AI chatbots about their training, diet, and health. Some are uploading their entire medical records. But what is a chatbot actually doing when it answers, and how often does it get it wrong? Zoë and Nick explain how large language models work and why they're...
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Peptides: Peps, Injections, and the Wolverine Stack
In our first episode, Zoë and Nick explain why they started a show about putting health and fitness claims under the microscope. Then they take on one of the biggest trends in gyms, longevity circles, and endurance sport: experimental peptides. "Peptide" describes a chemical structure, not a...
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Introducing The Claims Department
Supplements that promise everything. Recovery gadgets with a price tag to match. Wellness trends that go viral before anyone checks the science. The Claims Department, a podcast from UltraSignup, doesn't tell you what to think. It helps you put health and fitness claims under the microscope so…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Claims Department is a science podcast about health, fitness, and nutrition, hosted by journalist Zoë Rom and exercise physiologist Dr. Nick Tiller. Zoë and Nick dig into the studies, headlines, trends, and extremely confident internet takes telling you how to train, eat, recover, and live. They figure out what holds up, what falls apart, and what any of it can teach us about getting fitter, feeling better, and thinking critically. Skeptical, not cynical. An UltraSignup podcast.
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