10 episodes

Narrated by Elle Fanning, One Click explores how a single click on the internet can change your life forever. Season 1 tells the story of DNP (2,4-dinitrophenol), an explosive chemical originally used in WWI-era munitions factories that is now being sold on the internet as a diet pill leaving hundreds dead in its wake. Together with journalist Jessica Wapnes, Elle Fanning traces the history of DNP and asks, why (despite the perils) have so many turned to DNP and what does it say about the health of our society?
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One Click Vespucci

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.7 • 575 Ratings

Narrated by Elle Fanning, One Click explores how a single click on the internet can change your life forever. Season 1 tells the story of DNP (2,4-dinitrophenol), an explosive chemical originally used in WWI-era munitions factories that is now being sold on the internet as a diet pill leaving hundreds dead in its wake. Together with journalist Jessica Wapnes, Elle Fanning traces the history of DNP and asks, why (despite the perils) have so many turned to DNP and what does it say about the health of our society?
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    What Did You Take?

    What Did You Take?

    Two similar yet unrelated deaths in different parts of the country lead to the same agonizing conclusion -- cause of death unknown. Eventually, both cases reveal a gruesome truth: an obsession with weight loss led them, and many others, to be cooked alive from the inside.
    For eating disorder stats and general help, check out NEDA at www.nationaleatingdisorders.org.
    If you need treatment for an eating disorder but don't know where to start or can't afford it, get support from Project HEAL at www.theprojectheal.org.
    If you are a parent or loved one of someone with an eating disorder, resources are available from F.E.A.S.T. at www.feast-ed.org.


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    • 35 min
    Banned From Human Consumption

    Banned From Human Consumption

    After a World War I explosive causes plummeting weight loss among factory workers, enterprising scientists try to create a miracle drug. By the time they realize their mistake, it’s too late.
    For eating disorder stats and general help, check out NEDA at www.nationaleatingdisorders.org.
    If you need treatment for an eating disorder but don't know where to start or can't afford it, get support from Project HEAL at www.theprojectheal.org.
    If you are a parent or loved one of someone with an eating disorder, resources are available from F.E.A.S.T. at www.feast-ed.org.


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    • 35 min
    Diehard Fanatic

    Diehard Fanatic

    More than fifty years after DNP was removed from pharmacy shelves, it makes a harrowing return. A chance encounter between a disgraced doctor and a steroid-obsessed trainer gives it the perfect reentry. 

    For eating disorder stats and general help, check out NEDA at www.nationaleatingdisorders.org.
    If you need treatment for an eating disorder but don't know where to start or can't afford it, get support from Project HEAL at www.theprojectheal.org.
    If you are a parent or loved one of someone with an eating disorder, resources are available from F.E.A.S.T. at www.feast-ed.org.


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    • 33 min
    A Thin Line

    A Thin Line

    From the first celebrity diet in the 1800s to the heroin chic models of the 1990s, women’s bodies have long been criticized and shamed. And when the internet arrives, DNP is there to exploit those vulnerabilities. 
    For eating disorder stats and general help, check out NEDA at www.nationaleatingdisorders.org.
    If you need treatment for an eating disorder but don't know where to start or can't afford it, get support from Project HEAL at www.theprojectheal.org.
    If you are a parent or loved one of someone with an eating disorder, resources are available from F.E.A.S.T. at www.feast-ed.org.


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    • 39 min
    The Takedown

    The Takedown

    A mother’s quest for justice spurs a global hunt for DNP sellers. And one dealer’s body count keeps climbing.
    For eating disorder stats and general help, check out NEDA at www.nationaleatingdisorders.org.
    If you need treatment for an eating disorder but don't know where to start or can't afford it, get support from Project HEAL at www.theprojectheal.org.
    If you are a parent or loved one of someone with an eating disorder, resources are available from F.E.A.S.T. at www.feast-ed.org.


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    • 33 min
    Warrant for His Arrest

    Warrant for His Arrest

    As undercover agents set out to catch a seller whose DNP killed three people, a criminal case faces a disturbing question: what crime did he actually commit? For eating disorder stats and general help, check out NEDA at www.nationaleatingdisorders.org. If you need treatment for an eating disorder but don't know where to start or can't afford it, get support from Project HEAL at www.theprojectheal.org. If you are a parent or loved one of someone with an eating disorder, resources are available from F.E.A.S.T. at www.feast-ed.org


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    • 38 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
575 Ratings

575 Ratings

JDZM3 ,

Wow! Well done.

I would love to hear more of this type of journalism. I hope there is some sort of a season 2.

Amom12 ,

Great podcast

Well done! I couldn’t stop listening. Very disturbing content. I have unfollowed for season 2 because I recently listened to another podcast with an in-depth look at the history of drug rehab facilities starting with Synanon. But I look forward to season 3

Jo from MO ,

How many unnecessary deaths from quacks have gone undetected?

Back in 1976 there was a weight loss clinic in St. Louis, Missouri called Millay Clinic. I remember reading the St. Louis Post Dispatch newspaper article—an exposé—warning the public. And to make it all the more real included yearbook style headshot photos of all the women who had died under their care. A few months later my mother was dead. She was 42.

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