Stanford Scientist Breaks Down Health Trends
Food, We Need To Talk
Juna Gjata
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode, we’re back with Dr. Rachele Pojednic for one of our favorite games: Overrated vs. Underrated — wellness edition. Rachele gives brutally honest takes on cold plunges, wearables like Oura and Whoop, continuous glucose monitors, greens powders, zone 2 training, and IV drips. You’ll hear what she thinks is genuinely useful, what’s wildly overhyped, and what the science still doesn’t know yet. (Yes, she straight-up says cold plunges are overrated and greens powders are a hard no.) If you love hot takes and you want to stop wasting money on wellness nonsense, you’re going to love this one.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the talk. |
| 0:04.1 | Today, we are continuing our conversation with Dr. Rachel Pajednik, |
| 0:07.6 | and we are going to be playing our favorite game, |
| 0:10.6 | overrated, underrated for health fads because actually, |
| 0:14.5 | Rachel studies these health fads and figures out which ones are fads and which ones are actually true. |
| 0:18.9 | Are you ready? Drum roll. |
| 0:20.2 | Ready. |
| 0:22.1 | Cold plunges. |
| 0:25.1 | Overrated. |
| 0:26.4 | Wow. |
| 0:27.3 | For everyone or for athletes or overall? |
| 0:30.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:30.4 | So athletes, it's a mixed bag. |
| 0:32.4 | So you've got to be really careful about timing on cold plunges. |
| 0:35.7 | There's a very interesting research coming out about sex differences |
| 0:39.5 | in cold plunges. Oh, wow. I will say cold plunges shine is probably mental health literature, |
| 0:44.6 | but not recovery from any kind of athletic endeavor. Wow. Okay, I'm shook by that. Wearable health |
| 0:51.6 | monitors like aura ring, Apple Watch, whoop, etc. |
| 0:56.5 | Overrated. |
| 0:57.1 | Oh, shoot. |
| 0:58.4 | I was just about the bad ORA ring. |
| 1:00.0 | Oops, there goes our ORA sponsorship. |
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