The Great Protein Fiasco

Maintenance Phase

Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes

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

4.8 • 16.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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How Nestlé executives, global health institutions and a very racist white lady seeded a series of nutritional misconceptions we're still living with today. Special thanks to John Nott for helping us out with this episode! Here's his papers on the history of protein and the British Empire. “No one may starve in the British Empire”: Kwashiorkor, Protein and the Politics of Nutrition Between Britain and Africa“How Little Progress”? A Political Economy of Postcolonial NutritionSupport us: ...

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0:00.0	I'm doing it.
0:07.0	Alright, good to...it's your tagline time, ladies.
0:15.0	Oh shit!
0:16.0	This is absolutely the first time it's occurring.
0:18.0	I need to do a tagline.
0:20.0	This is your first time doing the show.
0:23.0	Okay, welcome to Maintenance Phase, the podcast that is all about Gaines, bro.
0:28.0	No, does that...
0:31.0	You truly have no idea.
0:32.0	I'm so excited.
0:33.0	I have no idea.
0:34.0	I just know that we're talking about Pro Team.
0:36.0	There's like a weird pocket of YouTube that I found a few years ago when I was researching
0:42.0	for the book that was like a bunch of like Jim Bro dudes focused on like building muscle
0:49.0	mass and whatever who are also super into fat lady.
0:52.0	Oh, and I was like, this is a really fascinating little pocket of the internet.
0:55.0	And that's how you met your husband.
0:58.0	I'm straight now and I'm married, surprise.
1:02.0	I am Icahops?
1:06.0	I'm Aubrey Gordon.
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