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Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson — 143 episodes

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Salt: From the Roman Legion to Your Electrolyte Packet

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Coffee Woke Civilization

3

The Benevolent Bean: Civilization's Forgotten Protein

4

Olive Oil: One of the First Medicines

5

Cheese - Transforming Milk into Delicious

6

Bread Built Civilization

7

Soup: The Mediterranean Diet in a Bowl

8

How Cooking Made Us Human

9

The Bank of Muscle: Your Retirement Account Isn't Your 401(k)

10

Did the Food Pyramid Make America Fat?

11

The Scientists Who Built the Modern Snack

12

Taste Buds Everywhere: Your Body's Hidden Food Sensors

13

Diabetes, Weight Loss, Remission or Cure

14

The Science of Hangovers: Why Most “Cures” Fail

15

Why Food Became Engineered to Defeat You

16

What I Eat on a GLP-1 And Why It Changes

17

GLP-1 The First Month: Tips for the new user

18

Being a Foodie on a GLP-1

19

The Peptide Bazaar: Real Medicine vs. Vials from the Internet

20

Fat Shaming and GLP-1 - It's Biology

21

Menopause: Estrogen Effects Satiety

22

Henry VIII, the Brain, and the Obesity

23

The Carnivore Priesthood

24

Minnesota Starvation Experiment: Food Noise, Science

25

From Gila Monster to GLP-1 Revolution

26

Protein Panic: How Much Do You Really Need?

27

Mexican Food Is Healthy. The Taco Took the Blame.

28

Keep Your Poop in a Group

29

How GLP-1 Quiets Food Noise

30

Whole Milk Isn’t the Fix—Feeding Kids Is

31

Food Pyramid Blues: Influencers are not Scientists

32

Ultra-Processed Food The Enemy

33

Willpower Is B.S.: A Surgeon on Zepbound

34

Is Whoop Predicting My Death?

35

GLP-1 Drugs, the Mediterranean Diet, and the Science of Living Longer

36

Alcohol Cuts Healthspan

37

Muscle, Mitochondria, and Healthspan

38

Telomeres and Time: Rewind Aging

39

Mitochondria Matter: The Story of Aging

40

Urolithin A - Mitochondrial Miracle in the Petri Dish

41

NAD The Molecule of Life — and the Hype

42

FORK U #100 — The Hall of Fame and Shame

43

The Global Thanksgiving Table

44

When Vitamin D Isn't Sunshine in a Bottle

45

Animal Protein and Cancer Risk

46

When Green Tea Isn’t Chemotherapy

47

Why Beans Aren’t Medicine

48

Salmon isn't a Stent Food and Medicine

49

Bananas Aren’t Beta Blockers

50

Tofu Isn't a Statin: Food as Medicine

51

Pasteurization Saves Lives: Milk Myths vs. Science

52

Protein Powders: Hype and Science

53

MAHA Myths: Why Nutrition Alone Won’t Save You

54

Liver Detox- Carter's to Dose

55

Edinburgh’s Surgical Revolution

56

Ancient Neurosurgery and Modern Brain Scams

57

Radium to Cleanses: Why We Still Fall for Bad Science

58

The Steak That Tried to Cure Everything

59

Smoothie Mornings Made Easy with Two Simple Appliances

60

Dr. Kellogg Cereal, Surgery, and Strange Ideas

61

How Ozempic Works and Why Diets Still Matter

62

Longevity That Actually Works

63

Sustainable Eating: Lab Grown Meat to Farmed Fish

64

The Fry Lie: McDonald's Fries for Better Or...

65

Superfood Myths: What Works, What Hurts, What’s Hype

66

Fruit Fearmongering: Is Fruit Bad For You?

67

On a GLP-1 - You Should be on the Mediterranean Diet Also

68

Banning Neon Cupcakes While Ignoring Real Public Health Threats: Welcome to America 2025

69

Mission FORK U

70

Butter, LDL, and the Myth of Plaque

71

Blue Zones: Beautiful Myth or Measured Truth?

72

Common Carnivore/Low-Carb Myths

73

Why Bitterness is Good for You

74

The Egg: From Villain to Victory

75

Apple Watch vs. Oura, Whoop, and Withings

76

Ultra-Processed Food Myths

77

Update: Flu and More Bird Flu

78

Fuel, Don't Fad. Eat for Health, not Hype.

79

Number One Diet 2025: Mediterranean

80

Bird Flu: Risks, Realities, Readiness

81

GLP-1 Guide to Healthy Habits and Success

82

GLP-1: Eating for Long-term Health

83

Obesity is not about Forks and Willpower

84

Diets are Dead. Long Live Diets.

85

From Starving to Stuffed

86

Food Noise, Addictions, and Ozempic

87

Cholesterol and Heart Disease

88

Autoimmune Diseases and Charlatans

89

Bread: The Evil Staff of Life

90

Seed Oils: Toxic or Not?

91

Ancestral Diets and Logical Fallacies

92

Rice and Fruit or Carnivore

93

Grains on the Mediterranean Diet

94

Secrets to Cooking Fish

95

Health Benefits of Fish Consumption

96

Reducing Dementia with Diet

97

DASH, The Best Diet You've Never Heard Of

98

Health Benefits of Limiting Red Meat

99

Diet Disappointment 2024 Version

100

Salesmen of Supplements and Scams

101

Canola Oil is Healthy and Inexpensive

102

Nuts and Seeds, or Supplements

103

The Beautiful Bean

104

Turmeric: It Can Kill You

105

Weight Loss Meds: Making Sense of Madness

106

Peanut Butter - Don't Feel Guilty

107

Vegetables in the Mediterranean Diet

108

Do You Need A Liver Cleanse?

109

Erythritol and Heart Attacks: Is It Hype?

110

Don't Fear the Fruit, Enjoy It

111

Salt: Toxicity is in the Dose

112

Why You Should Ditch Your Gas Stove

113

Whole Grains Reduce Obesity

114

Are Vegetables just BS?

115

The First Vitamin

116

The Green Mediterranean Diet

117

LiverKing Falls From Grace

118

Leaky Gut: Facts and Fads

119

The Beer and Sausage Diet

120

Losing Weight with Apps

121

Decreasing Cholesterol drugs and diet

122

Alcohol and the Mediterranean Diet

123

Mediterranean Diet After Weight Loss Surgery

124

Implementing the Med Diet - Part One

125

Mediterranean Diet - Fats

126

Inflammation and the Mediterranean Diet

127

Cancer and The Mediterranean Diet

128

Ancel Keys and Revisionist History

129

The Modern Mediterranean Diet

130

Continuous Blood Glucose Monitors for Non-Diabetics

131

Bioidentical Hormones Cause Weight Gain

132

Vitamins and Supplements for Prevention of Heart Disease and Cancer

133

Can You Beet Hypertension?

134

Collagen Supplements: Powders, Liquids, Potions, & Scams

135

Bill Lagakos and The Trouble With Diets

136

Is It The Mediterranean Diet Or The Mediterranean Lifestyle?

137

Wine: Terroir Tales and Fables, You Can't Taste the Soil

138

Microplastics in Fish, in Fruit, in Water

139

Fructose: Evil or Misunderstood?

140

Red Meat: Is it good or bad? The answer is... sometimes

141

The Carnivore Diet and Myths

142

Fish Oil and Atrial Fibrillation

143

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