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Run, Selfie, Repeat

Athletic Greens: Poison Punch or Healthy Super Drink?

Run, Selfie, Repeat

Kelly Roberts

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only, and is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Oh, and while we’re here to give you the answers google won’t, self-worth is sold separately, and happiness not included.

Poison punch. It’s toxic. It’s everywhere. And it’s making us all sick. It’s the diets, the weight loss teas and programs, workouts, and superfood powders that say they’re selling health. Or the supplements, creams, prescriptions, makeups, treatments, and procedures that promise to make you look younger and yield you unconditional love. And it’s all the apps, pop-ups, fads, people, retreats, and goop that cost a fortune but guarantee a better version of you. Poison punch is the 70+ billion dollar industry that profits off you looking in the mirror and thinking, “I’m fat, old, tired, and ugly”.

Poison punch is everything you're being told and sold to fix problems that (spoiler alert!) don’t actually exist.

There’s no way in hell the diet and beauty industries are going anywhere. Poison punch is here to stay. And while we might not be able to rid the world of poison punch, we can change our relationship to it. Join hosts Kelly Roberts and Kayla Reynolds M.S. every week as they figure out what’s poison punch, what punch has traces of poison in it, and what’s actually true.

If there’s one supplement that’s blown up over the past year, it’s Athletic Greens. It seems like every influencer -- from triathlete or wellness blogger to fashion influencer and mom -- is promoting it.

So one of the most common questions we get is: Why is Athletic Greens everywhere these days?

Will it improve my performance? Should I take it? Is it poison punch?

This week we’re breaking down Athletic Greens and demystifying this product that claims to do just about everything to supercharge your life.

We deep dive:

What Athletic Greens and how much it costs The toxic (and unrealistic) image that they are selling Claims that Athletic Greens are making -- everything from improving liver and hormone function, to supporting gut health and digestion How the claims they make are not proven but are instead based on the “mechanism of action” of the nutrients rather than studies proving the claims Why they’re targeting the already “healthy” and why most people who use it probably won’t benefit from it Reasons why some people feel so good taking it How superdosing nutrients just makes for really expensive urine and makes your body work so much harder Some recommendations that they make that are flat out wrong

We recognize that behind every single diet, program, product, or anything else there are people — people who are trying to feel good, get answers, find love, and feel happy. People who are targeted, or rather preyed on, by the industry.

Our goal is not to tell you what to do. Our goal is to help you put your curiosity goggles on and make choices that are informed and empowered.

Tune in as we break it down!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey gang, welcome to the Run Selfie Repeat Podcast.

0:06.1

Today is a special day, it's time for Poison Punch.

0:08.9

Poison Punch is a segment of this podcast now where my co-host Kayla Reynolds, she has

0:15.7

her masters in science and I, deep dive, all sorts of different fad diets, trends, thought

0:24.5

processes, products, everything in anything, services that prey on anything from this

0:34.8

desire to be as clean and healthy as possible to truly just like the, just raw, be smaller

0:47.2

at any cost, right, mindset, uh, weight loss at any cost, it just makes me, it makes my skin

0:52.9

crawl, just saying it out loud, but it's diet culture, it's everywhere, diet culture

0:56.5

is everywhere, it's a multi-billion dollar industry, it's not going anywhere and the point

1:00.5

of these segments is not to point a finger and say, how dare you, well, that kind of, it's

1:05.6

more to help you learn how to put curiosity on those on, think critically, look around

1:10.8

and say, oh, I understand what they're saying, their claims have no basis, right, it's not

1:17.7

about right or wrong, right, some of their claims might be true, it's just that they haven't

1:21.4

been studied, there's no peer review out there, it's just baseless claims.

1:27.6

And today, the episode that we're doing, I want it to have re-highlight here because

1:31.6

I am seeing it everywhere.

1:34.0

It is like every fifth video on TikTok and, and add about athletic greens, it's all over

1:39.3

Instagram, some of my friends, some of my really good friends, their podcasts are supported

1:44.2

by them, uh, some of my favorite athletes are supported by them.

1:47.8

So, like, even Steve O from Jackass is supported by them.

1:51.4

So it just cracks me up every time I see people talking about it and, uh, I wanted to

1:56.1

re- just re-push this episode here because it's a really good example of diet culture

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