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The Fat Doctor Podcast — 143 episodes

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1

Big Pharma's Playbook: How the Weight Loss Industry Bought the World

2

The Lesser Known GLP-1 Lies

3

Diab*sity: The Weight Loss Industry's Favourite Couple

4

This is Bad Medicine

5

Your Numbers Don't Mean What They Told You

6

"I Lost Weight And My Health Improved" (did it?)

7

Doctors Are Prescribing Eating Disorders

8

We've Known About the Harms of Dieting for 80 Years

9

Fat, cancer, and the 1 in 20 lie

10

Disease Mongering: Inventing Illness To Sell A Cure

11

Why Lifestyle Advice is BS: The Mediterranean Diet Edition

12

The Big Fat Lie: Why Your Weight Didn't Cause Your Health Condition

13

Wellness Influencers: A 400-Year History of the Same Old BS

14

It's Not Your Fault: The Real Factors That Control Your Weight

15

When Doctors Lie: The Guidelines That Recommend Diets They Know Don't Work

16

How Big Pharma Made Up a Disease

17

There is no such thing as a healthy weight

18

I Wrote A Book!

19

Seasons Greetings from the Fat Doctor

20

Destroying 10 Lies That Are Used to Justify Weight Based Discrimination

21

The Logical Fallacies That Season Your Holiday Fatphobia

22

When Healthcare Becomes Compliance Theater

23

Ignoring the Harm: Why We Justify Suffering for Weight Loss

24

Why It's So Hard To Just BE Fat

25

Taylor's story: What if everyone else is right and we're wrong?

26

The Weight Loss Lie: A History of Medical Mistakes

27

You Deserve Better: The Fat Doctor's Reassurance on Your Right To Healthcare

28

Casey's story: When good intentions aren't enough

29

Weight Loss Doesn't Improve Your Health

30

When 'nice' isn't enough: The search for truly safe care

31

Jordan's Story: When Endometriosis Gets Blamed on Being Fat

32

My Weight Says Nothing About Who I Am

33

Fat People Are Not Entitled to Autonomy

34

Riley's Story: The Bariatric Surgery Risks Nobody Talks About

35

Your Health Is Not Determined by Your Size

36

Why I Can't Move On: Staying Put When I Want to Run Away

37

Fat People Are Being Denied Surgery for Money (Say It Isn't So!)

38

Coming Out As Fat with Ross Anderson-Doherty

39

Cameron's Story

40

Challenging the Economics of Fat Bodies

41

How a Positive Consultation Changed Everything For Me

42

Healing Trauma with Elle Bower Johnston, Body Witch

43

Robin's Story

44

My Health Does Not Define My Worth

45

The Lose Weight or Die Narrative

46

Unmasking My Autistic Self

47

More Than Just Carrots with Dr Molly Moffat

48

Charlie's Story

49

Stop Blaming the Patient! (Why Healthcare Needs More Compassion And Less Judgment)

50

World Ob*sity Day: Selling Solutions to Problems We Invented

51

Rice, Beans, and Resistance with Dra. Mónica Peralta

52

Harper's Story

53

From Body Control to Body Trust

54

Yes, I'm Fat. Yes, I'm in Pain. No, They're Not Related.

55

Beyond Diet Culture: A Conversation with Leslie Jordan Garcia on Race, Bodies, and Liberation

56

Jay's Story

57

What Is Health, Really?

58

Putting Prediabetes Panic Into Perspective

59

Season 4 Finale

60

Raven's Story

61

Jude's story

62

Unwrap the holidays: Who's struggling this season?

63

There's no such thing as the Amercian Dream

64

Surgeons are lying liars who lie

65

(Re) Introducing the Fat Doctor

66

Fat justice, Diabetes and French Cheese with Lisa

67

Fat and AuDHD with Nicola Salmon

68

How I got my doctor to respect me with Cara Winsor Hehir

69

Phoenix's Story

70

Rowan's Story

71

Jamie's Story

72

Interrogating your doctor's statements

73

The 3 R's of weight inclusive healthcare

74

What's muscle mass got to do with it?

75

Ikigai

76

Take Your Power Back

77

Chronic stress causes brain damage (and loads of other stuff too)

78

How To Be a Doctor (Advanced Class)

79

How To Be a Doctor (Beginners Class)

80

Eat, Fast, and Live Longer?

81

The Fatphobic History of Medicine

82

Pathologizing Fat

83

Money, Money, Money

84

Un Update On The GMC

85

Why I'm breaking up with social media

86

Let's talk about AI

87

Let's talk about sex!

88

Who am I to judge

89

What do you mean you don't care whether people like you?!?!

90

Moral courage, dog whistles, and dealing with d1ckh3ads

91

Trauma Recovery with Anne Kinsey

92

Medical Trauma 101

93

The Good Doctor

94

UNSHRINKABLE

95

Asher Takes His Power Back Part 2

96

Asher Takes His Power Back Part 1

97

What does "success" look like with Bree-Danielle Wyatt

98

Does weight loss improve joint pain?

99

Perimenopause: Medical Misogyny Meets Weight Stimga

100

Weight inclusive nutrition anyone?

101

Channelling Anger into Activism

102

Episode 1: Why I'm Done With Professionalism and Respectability

103

Becoming the Fat Doctor

104

But wait, there's more: Wegovy Part 2

105

Silence or Violence: I wish there was a better way

106

The problem with Trans Fats? featuring Ross Anderson-Doherty

107

An homage to Jessica Wilson's new book "It's always been ours" featuring Kiesha

108

Unfiltered: The truth about Wegovy

109

Lies about breast cancer

110

Weight Stigma Kills: Meet Sarah-Jane

111

Why the American Academy of Pediatrics is WRONG (Part 3)

112

Why the American Academy of Pediatrics is WRONG (part 2)

113

Why the American Academy of Pediatrics is WRONG (part 1)

114

The Crazy Progressive Liberal Snowflake

115

Challenging the twelfth law: Is it OK to discriminate against fat people?

116

Challenging the eleventh law: is BMI fit for purpose?

117

Challenging the tenth law: can anyone lose weight if they try hard enough?

118

Challenging the ninth law: Can fatness be "cured" by eating less and exercising more?

119

Challenging the eighth law: Is fatness a sign of weakness and lack of self respect?

120

Challenging the seventh law: Can you be fat and healthy?

121

Challenging the sixth law: Should good health should be our number one priority?

122

Challenging the fifth law: Do we society a debt of health?

123

Challenging the fourth law: Is a person's worth determined by their health?

124

Challenging the third law: Are individuals responsible for improving their own health? (Part 2)

125

Challenging the third law: Are individuals responsible for improving their own health? (Part 1)

126

Challenging the second law: Can health be easily controlled?

127

Introducing the 12 laws of healthism

128

Challenging the first law: Can health be easily defined?

129

How to dance your way through weight stigma (with Arielle and Zoe)

130

Childhood trauma and weight stigma (with "Kate")

131

Weight Stigma and diet (with Jeanette Thompson-Wessen)

132

Why diets can't be trusted (with Natala)

133

Weight Stigma Kills (with Natala)

134

The One About Cancer

135

Fat and Fit (with Amy Snelling)

136

When Weight Stigma Meets Racism (with Ciekeisha)

137

Weight Stigma in Children (with Molly Forbes)

138

The Truth Behind Weight Loss and Big Pharma (with Mikey Mercedes)

139

Psychology and Weight Stigma (with Alexis Conason, PSY.D.)

140

What is so wrong with being fat? (with Vangeya M'hone)

141

Weight Stigma in Healthcare (With Dr Greg Dodell)

142

What Is Weight Stigma? (With Ragen Chastain)

143

Introducing the Fat Doctor (With Tanya Phoenix)