Conspirituality

Whole milk is back! The war on protein is over! Mainline meat!

Derek investigates the new inverted pyramid and everything lacking in the new dietary guidelines.

Show Notes

The New Dietary Guidelines and the “Flipped Pyramid”

Several of Kennedy’s Dietary Advisers Have Ties to Meat and Dairy Interests

Carotenoid bioavailability is higher from salads ingested with full-fat than with fat-reduced salad dressings as measured with electrochemical detection

Human health effects of conjugated linoleic acid from milk and supplements

Enhancing the fatty acid profile of milk through forage-based rations, with nutrition modeling of diet outcomes

Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association

Reduction in saturated fat intake for cardiovascular disease

Effect of Interventions Aimed at Reducing or Modifying Saturated Fat Intake on Cholesterol, Mortality, and Major Cardiovascular Events : A Risk Stratified Systematic Review of Randomized Trials

Omega-6 fats for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease

Butter and Plant-Based Oils Intake and Mortality
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“Train your mind gently, not to deny what is hard, but to see what is still good” implores the monk sharing spiritual messages to his 2.5 million Instagram followers. Clad in an orange robe—well, sometimes a blue robe, sometimes grey or yellow—the little man of unknown descent speaks knowledge from a temple constructed from just about every Asian country imaginable. As it turns out, the creators of the AI-generated Yang Mun are…Israeli tech bros?

Turns out AI isn’t just for spirituality. There’s an entire industry of health slopfluencers pushing untested supplements, as Derek covers before Matthew breaks down the AI Orientalism of Yang Mun.

First, Julian touches on the 5th anniversary of the Jan 6 riots, and all the propaganda that’s emerged in its wake.

Show Notes

The Promise of Health Chatbots Has Already Failed

Yang Mun on Instagram

LinktreeMcMindfulness: how capitalism hijacked the Buddhist teaching of mindfulness

Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation

GigaChad | Know Your Meme

Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation
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From Andrew Huberman's Goop collab and Mel Robbins' protein shots to MAHA flipping the long-defunct food pyramid and making meningitis great again, the first full week of 2026 was off to quite a start. Derek covers the week that made heads spin.

Show Notes

Andrew Huberman is Optimizing Turkey Chili

Mel Robbins is Selling Protein Shots

What to Know About the New Childhood Vaccine Schedule

Health officials slash the number of vaccines recommended for all kids

Johns Hopkins doctor concerned over CDC's new child vaccine recommendations

Flu season already rivals last winter's harsh epidemic

FDA announces sweeping changes to oversight of wearables, AI-enabled devices

Ōura’s Ricky Bloomfield proposes new regulatory pathway for wearable health features
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Marco Rubio’s office published an official press release last month titled “Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship Industrial Complex.” The memo discusses the decision to impose visa restrictions on five individuals due to their “organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose.”

One of those individuals is Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate and repeat Conspirituality podcast guest. Derek and Julian break down what's going on with this case.

Show Notes

Rubio Announcement

CBC: Individuals Named and EU Reactions

Imran Ahmed on PBS NewsNight
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What do fascists need to do to convince their rank and file that they’re the smartest in the room? They invent new science to trash the old science they didn’t like. First, we look into how RFK Jr is “making the proof” for all his scientific endeavors, then unpacking a new proposal from the AZ state sena Janae Shamp about how she’s going to get to the bottom of the clinical diagnosis of Trump Derangement Syndrome. First, we read a lovely bio-romance poem from our favorite ex-Mormon vampire millionaire, Bryan Johnson.

Show Notes

CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study by controversial Danish researchers

US awards no-bid contract to Denmark scientists studying hepatitis B vaccine in African babies

Now is the Time to Scale Up Birth-Dose Hepatitis B Vaccine in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

The CDC is Funding an Unethical Vaccine Trial in Guinea-Bissau

The False Narrative of Nonspecific Vaccine Effects

Randomized trials show no evidence of non-specific vaccine effects

Hepatitis B and C in the adult population of Bissau, Guinea-Bissau: a cross-sectional survey

Fiftieth Anniversary of Uncovering the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: The Story and Timeless Lessons

Chronic Hepatitis Is Common and Often Untreated Among Children With Hepatitis B Infection in the United States and Canada

Fired Nurse to Fierce Senator: Janae Shamp Exposes the Border Crisis & Government Betrayal State Sen. Janae Shamp on Border Security, Housing Affordability, and Health Care in Arizona 

States Look to Religious Leaders to Fill Mental Health Gap 

Charles Krauthammer: Bush Derangement Syndrome is spreading

Zakaria: Liberals have to avoid Trump Derangement Syndrome 

Krauthammer: You can’t govern by id 

New Yorker: Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s Battering RamGreat job by Bret Baier in his Interview with Lyin’ Kamala Harris
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