Your Nutrition Documentary Sucks

Aug 28

This week on Your Diet Sucks, Kylee and Zoë take a hard look at health documentaries, specifically the cult classic Game Changers (aka, the boner experiment film), along with other nutrition flicks that convince people to rethink their entire diet for about a week.

We break down why these documentaries go full fear-mongering, how they cherry-pick studies to push an agenda, and why they’re so obsessed with masculinity and strength. We call out the biggest nutrition myths they recycle and share how to actually fact-check food and health claims so you don’t get duped.

Plus, Zoë does what she does best: rage-Googling studies in real-time and asking the important questions, like, who decided we needed a documentary about penis blood flow?

Hit play, grab your popcorn (or maybe a block of cheese like we did), and let’s dig in.

Zoë Rom

Zoë Rom is a science and environmental journalist with bylines in The New York Times, Outside, and High Country News. She co-hosts Your Diet Sucks, an evidence-based nutrition and wellness podcast, with registered dietitian Kylee Van Horn, RDN, where they investigate how wellness culture distorts science and how athletes can do better. A Colorado-based ultrarunner, she finished second at the Leadville Trail 100 and top five at Run Rabbit Run 100. Her reporting and commentary focus on the intersection of sport, science, and the wellness industry's long history of selling women their own anxieties.