August Bonus: Listener Questions!

“Eggs are cheap! Can’t patent an egg.” aged like a cheap egg lol

Tom

This was very inspiring banter. I just love yall. So many answers yall have had me shaking my head and reflecting on how I am in the world and with the people I love. I laughed out loud so many times too. Thank you.

Adia Paulete

Hi friends! If you take listened questions again (or would consider an episode about this) I’d love to know how anti-fat bias plays into advice we get from veterinarians about our pets. You all have completely changed how I think of weight vs health, but the one question that always plagues me is “if it’s not physically unhealthy for people to be fat then why do we get that advice about pets”? I’ve always heard that weight leads to hip problems and higher rates of cancer in pets and it doesn’t seem like the same issues with access and bias would apply when we’re talking about animal medicine?

Janey Harper

You should do this more often. I really enjoyed this episode!!!

Ratty Ratty

I'm so happy to hear Michael's sweet potato recipe! The only pregnancy craving I had that carried through to after was/is a twice baked sweet potato that I mash up with garlic herb boursin and bacon crumbles and its sooooo good.

Kim

This episode made me laugh a lot. I also appreciate how thoughtfully you answered the questions. I got some really good advice from this episode on how to talk to my mom about her dieting. Thank you 💜

Julia

I am dying. Yes dream guest but they will probably just keep saying "celery juice" over and over which might be boring 😕

Nicola Horan

I just listened to this and I wonder why Mike andAubrey didn't think of Spirit from the celery juice episode as their dream guest LOL

NT

You don't know why your podcast is so popular...for REAL?! Maintenance Phase, you are the perfect balance of banter between friends, editing, facts, story with interesting characters, empathy, nuance, making very complicated concepts easy to understand and making it clear the very real life impact of these issues, puns which are often preceded by disclaimers and delivered with great hesitancy, and, last but not least, an absence of debating. You're a truly rare gem.

Melissa Lobo

I loved this. ♥ ♡ ♥ ♡ ♥

(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ IT’S 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚊 BETCH! ♡ ♥

Stairs story: I used to work at a comedy club in Chicago that was on the third floor of a pizza place. I’m not kidding when I say these are 2 VERY tall flights of stairs. I was front desk/box office right at the top of the stairs and every day I got to see dozens, if not hundreds of people climb the stairs (we had an elevator but sometimes it was shady). Most people who climbed the stairs were winded by the time they got to me, so much so that comedians joked about it constantly and it always got a huge laugh. Heck, I took them every day and still I needed to go SLOW. So yeah, stairs are hard 😅 I don’t know if going an extra flight or two is actually helpful but if you find stairs exhausting, you are not alone!

Sam Concklin

Thanks for sharing your experience. I should have clarified that I mean health health, not weight loss. And I totally hear you on stairs continuing to be hard forever 😅 I have a theory that we just push to the same level of exertion, regardless of fitness level, when climbing. Study required🧐 My understanding and feeling are that periodic, varied movement throughout the day should add up to some benefit for joints, circulation, maintaining muscle, etc. I'm wondering if any study bothered to look at things like that. Realistically I'm gonna keep doing it because my ADHD brain and fidgety body do well with the extra stimulation. To me, waiting for elevators and awkwardly staring at the wall in the levitating box full of other people's breathing feels like wading through glue 😅 So yeah, basically wondering if the thing that I feel better doing has any applicability to other humans.

Jeanette-o-saur

Jeanette, I have a study of one for you re: taking the stairs. My weight has fluctuated between 150-300 my entire adult life. At every weight, I have taken the stairs (because I'm stubborn and vain and don't want anyone to see me NOT take the stairs). I have worked on the fourth floor, the second, and the ground floor, so there has been fluctuation in my daily stair encounters - which have never correlated at all with changes in weight. In fact, it never even got easier to take the stairs from taking the stairs - like, you'd think doing four flights ~twice a day for over a year would result in some improvement in stair climbing ability, but it sucked as much on the last day as it did on the first. 🤷‍♀️

Ok, so I know the dude with the tiny hack changes was terrible and mostly full of it. AND I still love the idea of cumulative small actions improving general health. Is there any actual health value in the taking the stairs concept? (Also I'm exactly the person who will eat whatever I leave on the counter. Turns out I'm a human trope 🥹)

Jeanette-o-saur

I would love to hear y’all cover prediabetes and why it’s kind of a scam

I would love an episode on baby feeding/health myths! There’s so much garbage pseudoscience around breastfeeding, introducing solids, etc. I’d love to have you break it down.

LOVE this show! I've learned a lot from it and I enjoy listening to you crack each other up!

I paid $3 to join the MP Patreon just for the chance to come on and ask, Was Audrey’s mispronunciation of Gila Monster in the Ozempic episode on purpose/a joke????