Wellness, Actually with Emily Oster & Perry Wilson, MD

What's the deal with red meat?

May 28, 2026·56 min
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This week, Emily and Perry pull out their steak knives to cut through both the hypers, and the detractors, of red meat. Is it as bad for you as people say? Is there value to a (fiberless) carnivore diet? What makes it red, anyway? And why is nutritional science such a heap of hot, correlation-is-not-causation garbage? Plus: a peptide scandal in the running world, myths around mitochondria, and more Ebola, unfortunately. Submit a question for our weekly mailbag at wellnessactually.fm. Past episodes discussed: What's the deal with peptides? What's the deal with protein? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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