Welcome back to Rebuilding Trust With Your Body, I’m Katy Harvey your host. This episode is going to be so much fun because I’m going to go through what’s trending right now, what I’m seeing in the nutrition industry, what’s happening in the medical world that you need to know about, pop culture that’s impacting our behaviors, and some hot topics right now. I feel like this episode is like we’re going on the Today Show or Good Morning America to cover the news and pop culture. I’m going to break down what’s hype, what’s legit, what’s woo, and what you actually need to know that’s useful for your health and your relationship with food.
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Before we dive into our main topic for today, you know what time it is…We’ve got some Wellness Woo to talk about.
Wellness Woo is the stuff that diet and wellness culture tells us we should do in the name of health, but it’s really based on pseudoscience, exaggerated claims, or just nonsense.
Today’s Wellness Woo is: Get-Dreamy Overnight Whip – this was submitted by a listener on Instagram, you know who you are!
Smooth the appearance of fatty skin
Will get you toned by summer
Will tone your body while you sleep
Snatched curves
Better night’s sleep
Tightens loose skin
Insane transformations
Ingredients:
– Milk thistle – The only studies I could find for this are for treating psoriasis in mice
– Uva-ursi leaf extract – zero studies to support this
– Magnesium sulfate, which they’re using to promote it for sleep, but the type of Mg that helps with sleep is Mg glycinate. Mg sulfate is for treating constipation. I’d be curious if anyone using this product is experiencing a laxative effect from it. (maybe that’s why they claim it flattens their belly)
One container of it will cost you $50. You can also buy their booty cream, lift and firm arm cream, belly firming cream, and tight and tone body serum. Each of these products will also cost you $50.
If you have an example of Wellness Woo that you want to share, send it to me at rebuildingtrustwithyourbody@gmail.com.
Ok, that’s enough of that. Moving on to today’s main topic…What I’m Seeing In 2025
Most popular questions
– How do I know what my set point weight is? (don’t necessarily answer – point them back to my previous Nothing’s Off Limits episode)
– Can I lose weight with IE? (tease upcoming masterclass) – point out how the fact that this is one of the most common questions is a reflection of diet culture
– Does IE work if I’ve struggled with ED/DE? YES!
What diets are on the horizon
– Protein >> now shifting to fiber
– Fibermaxxing on TikTok – the idea is to exceed the recommended amounts of fiber
– Fasting EVERYTHING…Water, potato, dry alternate day, SARDINE fasting
– Commodotization of menopause (Jen Gunter article)
https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/fulltext/2025/08000/addressing_the_challenges_of_online_misinformation.3.aspx
SUMMARY: What You Need to Know About the Commodification of Menopause
- “Bioidentical” and “plant-based” hormones sound natural, but they’re just marketing terms. FDA-approved hormone therapies already use bioidentical hormones safely.
- Compounded hormones are overused and under-regulated. They’re only meant for rare cases like allergies — not general use.
- Hormone pellets are risky. They release unremovable hormones for months and have been linked to serious side effects like cancer and blood clots.
- Estrogen face and body creams for anti-aging aren’t proven safe or effective — and may carry unknown hormone risks.
- Menopause supplements are big business but often unregulated, mislabeled, or contaminated. They can even harm your liver.
- At-home urine hormone tests don’t actually help diagnose or manage menopause. Skip them.
Pop culture that’s influencing what we do
-Ilona Maher – promoting body acceptance, body diversity, strength, and taking a stand against society’s expectations on women to be thin. She said in an interview that walked the runway in the sports illustrated fashion show in bikinis without dieting ahead of time and she heard the other models backstage talking about how little they’d been eating and the extreme weight loss measures they were taking.
-Lyme dx – JT
Hot topics
-Change of sugar in coke from HFCS to cane sugar. At a biochemical level, these molecules are both types of carbohydrates with nearly identical structures, and this is very much a lateral move that’s basically meaningless beyond marketing to make their product sound healthier.
-UPF – we still don’t even have a universal definition of UPF. Yet they continue to be demonized based on whatever someone envisions that to mean inside their head. This is such a short sighted argument against these foods though, because for most humans processed foods are going to be part of our diet. And it’s 100% possible to be very healthy and get plenty of balanced nutrition by including these foods. Some people have very limited access to fresh and non-processed foods. And there are a lot of health benefits to foods that would by most working definitions fall into the UPF category. Canned beans for example which are a great source of complex carb, fiber, and protein. Or soy milk. We all know that when someone says UPF it’s just a euphemism for junk food, right? Maintenance Phase did a really good podcast episode digging into the science behind this. As a dietitian with both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in nutrition I can tell you this – you don’t need to be afraid of UPF. Would I recommend that’s all you eat? No, not if you can help it. But I also wouldn’t recommend you only eat fresh fruits and vegetables because you’d literally become deficient in all sorts of things. We need variety, and we need to zoom out and look at the social determinants of health when we’re having conversations about processed food rather than getting tunnel vision thinking that taking twinkies off the grocery store shelves is going to meaningfully improve our health at a population level.
-GLP-1s – Of course an ongoing hot topic, and most of you listening probably know at least one person in your life who is on one, or you might be on one yourself. No shade. These medications can be a really powerful tool for actual HEALTH when used properly (give examples). There are also plenty of instances where they’re being misused, or where people are trying to use them for legit health reasons like PCOS or diabetes and are having terrible side effects or are getting clinically malnourished (some people are literally getting hospitalized over this) because even though they might have been a good candidate metabolically for the medication they weren’t given the proper guidance on how to eat when they’re on it. There are some really important nuances that go into how to eat to fuel metabolism, prevent malnutrition and nutrient deficiencies, prevent losing all your muscle and hair, and to not feel sick all the time. I know this is super controversial in the IE space, but I’m very pro-GLP-1 for the right person who metabolically benefits from it in terms of insulin sensitivity, appetite hormones, and other things we are learning about this class of medications. (In fact, I do a lot of 1:1 Intensives with people who want to talk through this…) The dark side of these meds is the way that they are fueling the “thinness at all costs” and “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” attitude that seems to be making a comeback, and that makes me really angry, but also just really sad. I want nothing more for you than for you to have peace with food and your health, and if a GLP-1 is part of that, great (it legitimately is for some people), but there are also a lot of you who have no legitimate need for it that are entertaining the idea out of sheer body hatred and desperation. And I want you to know that you don’t have to take a GLP-1 in order to make peace with food and your body.
-Presidential Fitness Test coming back: Executive order as of July 31, 2025, revitalizes the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition and calls for the reestablishment of the Presidential Fitness Test.
-Had been replaced in 2013 by the Presidential Youth Fitness Program, which was a revamped version of the older Presidential Fitness Test, shifting its focus from athletic performance to overall health and wellness
New products in the news:
-Plezi: Electrolyte drink co founded by Michelle Obama and a guy named John Schulman who comes from a background in the beverage industry. Seems to me like they’re trying to compete with Prime (and of course Gatorade and Body Armor), and they have a fizzy product too that is similar to Poppi, as well as juice boxes. Their schtick is no added sugars (they use Stevia as the sweetener)
-2x the electrolytes as normal sports drinks (but with no sugar, they won’t be as readily absorbed…)
-Their target market is kids (so technically parents), and the idea is that these are beverage options that are an alternative to sugar sweetened beverages. I don’t have a problem with this product itself. That’s fine. But it also seems a bit unnecessary to me. And kind of like a cash grab.
-$25 for 12 bottles (gatorade is $15 for 12 bottles)
If you liked this episode and want to hear more like it in the future, let me know. You can also flag hot topics or nutrition trends that you are seeing and I’ll add them to my list!
In case nobody has told you today – you are worthy just as you are. We’ll talk again soon.
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