Fen Phen & Redux

Maintenance Phase

Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes

Wellness, Health & Fitness, History, Education, Science, Health

4.8 • 16.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Fen-Phen & Redux were "the next miracle drugs" in the '90s, claiming to help people lose dramatic amounts of weight in just three months. But within a few short years, they'd been pulled from the market. They were just too effective! (Just kidding, they killed some people.)

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Dispensing with the Truth by Alicia Mundy
The New Miracle Drug (Time Magazine)
How Fen-Phen, A Diet 'Miracle,' Rose and Fell (the New York Times)
Blowing the Whistle on Fen-Phen (Journal of Business Communication)
Purdue OxyContin settlement would rank among largest in pharma history (Reuters)
National Trends in Antiobesity Medication Use (JAMA Network)
The Fen-Phen Finale: A Study of Weight Loss and Valvular Heart Disease (Obesity Research)

Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Maintenance Phase.
0:13.7	I'm a-oh shit.
0:16.2	I'm like goddammit.
0:18.2	I was trying to decide in the moment whether to say description first or name first.
0:24.2	Anyway, hi everybody, welcome to Maintenance Phase.
0:27.1	We're going to explore the many rabbit holes passed in present around health, wellness,
0:31.6	bodies and weight loss.
0:33.6	My name is your fat friend.
0:34.6	I'm a writer and columnist for Self Magazine and I am a fat lady.
0:39.2	And my name is Michael Hobbs.
0:40.2	I'm a reporter for The Having You Post and the co-host of another podcast called You Are
0:44.2	Wrong About.
0:45.2	Yay, welcome.
0:46.2	And today we are talking about...
0:49.6	Fen Fen!
0:50.6	Fen Fen!
0:51.6	Fen Fen!
0:52.6	Which sounds like the name of a zoo animal or something.
0:56.1	I don't have told about this, has no idea what it is.
0:58.3	Really?
0:59.3	Oh my gosh, it was a huge force in my life.
1:02.4	Yeah.
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