Eat Or Die: Stories From The Human Table

Renegade Health Group

Food contains more intelligence than the label communicates. Eat or Die goes inside the science, the history, and the cultures behind what we eat — from the compounds that activate your body's own defenses to the civilizations that figured out nutrition before biochemistry had words for it. Hosted by Zach Sykes, Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and 20-year fitness industry veteran. No supplements to sell. No agenda beyond the evidence. Just the most interesting thing about whatever's on the table.

Episodes

  1. 3d ago

    Vitamin D: What The Sun Used To Do

    Vitamin D. Technically a hormone more than a vitamin — we'll get to that — deficient or insufficient in an estimated one billion people worldwide. In the United States alone, roughly 42 percent of adults are deficient. The number climbs higher in northern latitudes, higher still in winter months, higher still in people with darker skin, people who spend most of their time indoors, and people over 65 whose skin synthesizes Vitamin D less efficiently. One billion people. Quietly deficient in something their bodies were designed to get from the sky. Let's fix that

  2. Jul 14

    Potatoes: The Wrongly Convicted

    The potato is one of the most nutritionally complete foods on the planet. It fed empires. It saved populations from starvation. It is the only food a human being has been documented to survive on, almost exclusively, for extended periods — with full health maintained. Today, we are giving the potato its day in court. Evidence will be presented. Witnesses will be called. And by the end of this episode, I am confident you will never look at a potato the same way again.

  3. Jul 7

    Sugar: The Sweetest Lie

    We've done protein. Grains. Magnesium. Beer. All of them fascinating, all of them important, none of them quite like this. Sugar is the episode where everything we've discussed so far converges. The blood sugar spikes we talked about in the grains episode. The insulin resistance. The metabolic dysfunction. The way the food industry operates. The gap between what official guidelines say and what the research actually shows. It's all here. And it's been here, hiding in plain sight, for a long time.

  4. Jun 29

    Beer: Civilization In A Cup

    This is Eat or Die: Stories from the Human Table, from Renegade Health Group. Today we're talking about beer. Which your doctor will probably tell you to drink less of. And by the end of this episode, you'll understand exactly why — and also why ten thousand years of human beings disagreed, and why they weren't entirely wrong. This is a long one. Get comfortable. Maybe grab something to drink.

  5. Jun 22

    Magnesium: The Mineral You Forgot To Miss

    This is Eat or Die: Stories from the Human Table, from Renegade Health Group. Each episode, we take one ingredient — a nutrient, a food, a molecule — and we follow it. Through history. Through biology. Through your daily life. Three episodes in, and we've covered the molecule that built your body and the seed that built civilization. Today we're going smaller — down to a single mineral, invisible to the naked eye, tasteless, odorless, and almost certainly present in your body in quantities lower than they should be.

  6. Jun 14

    Grains: The Seed That Built The World

    This is Eat or Die: Stories from the Human Table — a show from Renegade Health Group about the things we eat, the history behind them, and what the science actually says when the marketing gets out of the way. Each episode, we take one ingredient — a nutrient, a food, a molecule — and we follow it. Through history. Through biology. Through your daily life.   Today we're talking about grains — the food that builthuman society. We're going to cover what grains actually are, how they remade the human world multiple times over across ten thousand years of history, what The Professor has to say about what happens inside your body when you eat them, and — perhaps most importantly — why the grain you're probablyeating most is the one you'd be better off eating least.

  7. Jun 14

    Protein: The Architecture of Life

    Welcome to Eat or Die: Stories from the Human Table — a show from Renegade Health Group about the things we eat, the history behind them, and what the science actually says when the marketing gets out of the way. Each episode, we take one ingredient — a nutrient, a food, a molecule — and we follow it. Through history. Through biology. Through your daily life. Today: Protein. The most talked-about macronutrient in the gym, the most misunderstood one at the dinner table, and arguably the most important molecule in your body.

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Food contains more intelligence than the label communicates. Eat or Die goes inside the science, the history, and the cultures behind what we eat — from the compounds that activate your body's own defenses to the civilizations that figured out nutrition before biochemistry had words for it. Hosted by Zach Sykes, Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and 20-year fitness industry veteran. No supplements to sell. No agenda beyond the evidence. Just the most interesting thing about whatever's on the table.

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