Prognosis: Losing it
275 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★ - 372 ratingsFor much of human history, we’ve turned to diets to lose weight and improve our health. But it’s mostly been in vain. No matter how much the number on the scale drops begins to go down, chances are that the weight will come back. That’s just what the science says. But when it comes to weight, the facts just don’t seem to matter. Losing It, a new series from Bloomberg’s Prognosis, looks at how we got weight loss so wrong — and whether there’s a better way forward.
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Introducing: Bloomberg News Now
December 15, 2023 11:00 - 51 seconds - 830 KBBloomberg News Now is a comprehensive audio report on today's top stories. Listen for the latest news, whenever you want it, covering global business stories around the world. on Apple: trib.al/Mx9TCh1 on Spotify: trib.al/T4BG8s4 Anywhere: trib.al/O4EX6BA See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Introducing: Elon, Inc.
November 13, 2023 12:00 - 43 seconds - 694 KBAt Bloomberg, we’re always talking about the biggest business stories, and no one is bigger than Elon Musk. In this new chat weekly show, host David Papadopoulos and a panel of guests including Businessweek’s Max Chafkin, Tesla reporter Dana Hull, Big Tech editor Sarah Frier, and more, will break down the most important stories on Musk and his empire. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Covid Cures and Conspiracies Introducing: The Deadly Cure
February 01, 2023 09:00 - 6 minutes - 5.66 MBSmoke Screen: Deadly Cure is a podcast about a family on the fringe who convinced tens of thousands of people across the globe to buy a miracle liquid made of poison, the international conspiracy they ignited, and the people who fought to take them down. Smoke Screen: Deadly Cure is a Neon Hum Media, Bloomberg & Sony Music Entertainment production. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Introducing: Crash Course
January 05, 2023 09:00 - 1 minute - 1.75 MBHosted by Bloomberg Opinion senior executive editor Tim O'Brien, Crash Course will bring listeners directly into the arenas where epic business and social upheavals occur. Every week, Crash Course will explore the lessons to be learned when creativity and ambition collide with competition and power -- on Wall Street and Main Street, and in Hollywood and Washington. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Targeting the Toughest Diseases (Sponsored Content)
November 07, 2022 09:00 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBThe battle against humanity’s most challenging diseases is happening at the intersection of business and medicine. A new six-episode podcast called Targeting the Toughest Diseases explores how Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a Boston-based biotech company, is using innovative tools, methods, and a unique philosophy to search for treatments and cures. Produced by Bloomberg Media Studios and Vertex, the podcast’s latest episode features NBA great Alonzo Mourning recounting his fight against kidney dis...
Episode Seven: Gut Instinct
August 16, 2022 08:00 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBIf you’re like many people, there’s a good chance that your weight and calorie considerations play a big role in food decisions. Intuitive eating, an Internet-famous movement all about healing people’s relationships with food, says it shouldn’t be that way. The final episode of “Losing It” explores what it means to eat intuitively, and asks the question: Does it work? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode Six: The Truth About Health and Weight
August 09, 2022 08:00 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBWhat if the dangers of being heavy have been overstated, or misrepresented? This new episode of the podcast series “Losing It” explores the relationship between health and weight, and the argument that we focus on the scale too much and not enough on healthy behaviors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode Five: Just Don’t Call it A Diet
August 02, 2022 08:00 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBCompanies like WW, formerly Weight Watchers, and Noom, which makes a popular weight-loss app, have a new pitch for would-be members: that they can lose weight with a holistic lifestyle approach instead of dieting. This new episode of podcast series “Losing It” explores why the backlash against dieting is happening, how companies are getting in on the action, and whether we're actually over dieting and losing weight. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode Four: A Weight-Loss Mecca’s Secrets
July 26, 2022 08:00 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBWe all think we know the basics of weight loss. It is all about consuming fewer calories than you burn. Eat less, move more. Calories in, calories out. But there’s much more to it than these simple equations, as a trip to the enormous Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana - a hub of such research - shows. In this episode, we break down the science of why it’s so hard to lose weight, and look at what the kinds of stories heralded as a weight-loss success really look ...
Episode Three: How to Launch a Diet Empire
July 19, 2022 08:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBThe South Beach Diet became an incredible success in the early 2000s, blowing past booksellers’ expectations, dominating the cultural moment and becoming a huge business. In the third episode of Losing It, we fly down to glamorous Miami to tell the story of the South Beach Diet and break down the formula for a hit diet. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode Two: Once Upon a Diet
July 12, 2022 08:01 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBWhen it comes to dieting, what’s old is new again. In the second episode of Losing we take a trip back in time through diet history — and explore why we keep falling for these absurd-sounding regimens decade after decade. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode One: When a Calorie Isn’t A Calorie
July 12, 2022 08:00 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBCalorie counts are everywhere from food packages to weight-loss apps. But calories aren’t all that they appear to be. In the series premiere of Losing it, we dive into how we got the calorie so wrong – and pretty much everything else about weight. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Introducing: Losing It
July 02, 2022 14:22 - 2 minutes - 2.03 MBFor much of human history, we’ve turned to diets to lose weight and improve our health. But it’s mostly been in vain. Because no matter how much the number on the scale drops, chances are the weight will come back. That’s just what the science says. But when it comes to our weight, the facts don’t seem to make much difference. Dieting still has a grip on all of us. Losing It, a new series from Bloomberg’s Prognosis, investigates how we got weight loss so wrong — and whether there’s a bet...
We've Been Nominated for a Webby!
April 14, 2022 16:43 - 1 minute - 1.2 MBThat's right! We're honored to be nominated for a Webby, in the Science & Education category. Please take a minute to vote for us here: https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2022/podcasts/general-series/science-education See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Breakthrough, Part Nine: The Next Pandemic
December 14, 2021 09:00 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBVirus hunters around the globe are already bracing for the next contagion which they fear could prove even more destructive than Covid. These scientists and doctors, drawing from hard-learned lessons from the past, are determined to stop future pandemics even as the current one continues to rage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Nine: The Next Pandemic
December 14, 2021 09:00 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBVirus hunters around the globe are already bracing for the next contagion which they fear could prove even more destructive than Covid. These scientists and doctors, drawing from hard-learned lessons from the past, are determined to stop future pandemics even as the current one continues to rage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Eight: The Future of mRNA
December 07, 2021 09:00 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MBCovid-19 is just the beginning for messenger RNA vaccines. Researchers are testing shots across a range of diseases, from cancer to malaria, HIV or even multiple sclerosis. There’s no guarantee the technology will work beyond infectious diseases, but if it does, it could transform medicine. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Breakthrough, Part Eight: The Future of mRNA
December 07, 2021 09:00 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MBCovid-19 is just the beginning for messenger RNA vaccines. Researchers are testing shots across a range of diseases, from cancer to malaria, HIV or even multiple sclerosis. There’s no guarantee the technology will work beyond infectious diseases, but if it does, it could transform medicine. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Breakthrough, Part Seven: The Vaccine Race
November 30, 2021 16:54 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBTwo biotech companies, Germany’s BioNTech and the U.S.’s Moderna, decided in January 2020 to wager their futures on developing a messenger RNA shot to fight Covid-19. What ensued was a head-spinning race to bring a vaccine to market quicker than ever before. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Seven: The Vaccine Race
November 30, 2021 16:54 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBTwo biotech companies, Germany’s BioNTech and the U.S.’s Moderna, decided in January 2020 to wager their futures on developing a messenger RNA shot to fight Covid-19. What ensued was a head-spinning race to bring a vaccine to market quicker than ever before. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Breakthrough, Part Six: Unlikely Heroes
November 23, 2021 09:00 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBThe messenger RNA vaccines against Covid-19 seem to have emerged out of nowhere. But they’re based on decades of painstaking work, done in relative obscurity, by researchers who believed in the promise of the technology even if few others did. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Six: Unlikely Heroes
November 23, 2021 09:00 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBThe messenger RNA vaccines against Covid-19 seem to have emerged out of nowhere. But they’re based on decades of painstaking work, done in relative obscurity, by researchers who believed in the promise of the technology even if few others did. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Breakthrough, Part Five: The Covid Fortress
November 16, 2021 09:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBOn the outside, city hospitals look just as they always have: big glass and steel buildings, an ER entrance with ambulances coming and going. But on the inside, Covid has completely transformed the hospital experience for patients, their families -- and for doctors and hospital staff. Once held in high esteem as the place where doctors performed miracles, hospitals have become more sombre places under the staggering weight of illness and death even as communities increasingly view them throu...
Part Five: The Covid Fortress
November 16, 2021 09:00 - 29 minutes - 27 MBOn the outside, city hospitals look just as they always have: big glass and steel buildings, an ER entrance with ambulances coming and going. But on the inside, Covid has completely transformed the hospital experience for patients, their families -- and for doctors and hospital staff. Once held in high esteem as the place where doctors performed miracles, hospitals have become more sombre places under the staggering weight of illness and death even as communities increasingly view them throug...
Part Four: Covid’s Long, Scary Tail
November 09, 2021 09:00 - 29 minutesThe loss of the sense of smell affects almost one in every two people who get Covid-19. Usually it resolves within a week or two. But for some, like Dr. Alex McCutchan, smell and taste distortions persist for a year, leaving an invisible illness that disrupts daily life. Scientists like Leah Beauchamp are learning that its significance doesn’t end there. In this episode, Bloomberg’s Jason Gale meets two best friends who are exploring long Covid’s potentially scary, lifelong consequences. Sto...
Part Four: Covid’s Long, Scary Tail
November 09, 2021 09:00 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBThe loss of the sense of smell affects almost one in every two people who get Covid-19. Usually it resolves within a week or two. But for some, like Dr. Alex McCutchan, smell and taste distortions persist for a year, leaving an invisible illness that disrupts daily life. Scientists like Leah Beauchamp are learning that its significance doesn’t end there. In this episode, Bloomberg’s Jason Gale meets two best friends who are exploring long Covid’s potentially scary, lifelong consequences. St...
Breakthrough, Part Four: Covid’s Long, Scary Tail
November 09, 2021 09:00 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBThe loss of the sense of smell affects almost one in every two people who get Covid-19. Usually it resolves within a week or two. But for some, like Dr. Alex McCutchan, smell and taste distortions persist for a year, leaving an invisible illness that disrupts daily life. Scientists like Leah Beauchamp are learning that its significance doesn’t end there. In this episode, Bloomberg’s Jason Gale meets two best friends who are exploring long Covid’s potentially scary, lifelong consequences. S...
Breakthrough, Part Three: Rehab for Long Haulers
November 02, 2021 08:00 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBNeuroscientist David Putrino doesn’t profess to understand why some Covid-19 survivors suffer persistent symptoms or how to cure them, but he’s finding ways to help “long haulers” take control of their symptoms. In this episode, Bloomberg’s Jason Gale takes a virtual tour of Putrino’s Manhattan long Covid rehab clinic to chronicle patients’ journey to recovery. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Three: Rehab for Long Haulers
November 02, 2021 08:00 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBNeuroscientist David Putrino doesn’t profess to understand why some Covid-19 survivors suffer persistent symptoms or how to cure them, but he’s finding ways to help “long haulers” take control of their symptoms. In this episode, Bloomberg’s Jason Gale takes a virtual tour of Putrino’s Manhattan long Covid rehab clinic to chronicle patients’ journey to recovery. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Two: How the Dead Are Helping the Living
October 26, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBIn a secure air-locked chamber in the world’s largest research hospital, Dan Chertow and a half-dozen other scientists in astronaut-inspired protective gear are carrying out a microscopic search inside Covid-19 victims to try to unlock one of the pandemic’s biggest and most disturbing mysteries. On this episode, Bloomberg’s Jason Gale joins the critical-care physician on his exhaustive hunt for the coronavirus in the body and brain of fatal cases. By looking for clues in the deceased, Cherto...
Breakthrough, Part Two: How the Dead Are Helping the Living
October 26, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBIn a secure air-locked chamber in the world’s largest research hospital, Dan Chertow and a half-dozen other scientists in astronaut-inspired protective gear are carrying out a microscopic search inside Covid-19 victims to try to unlock one of the pandemic’s biggest and most disturbing mysteries. On this episode, Bloomberg’s Jason Gale joins the critical-care physician on his exhaustive hunt for the coronavirus in the body and brain of fatal cases. By looking for clues in the deceased, Chert...
Breakthrough, Part One: Long Covid’s Early Origins
October 19, 2021 08:00 - 29 minutes - 27 MBWith a loss of smell and a high fever, New Yorker Fiona Lowenstein had a classic case of Covid-19 before she knew what a classic Covid case was. But there was more she didn't know: she was also about to join a burgeoning group we now know as “long haulers.” On the first episode of “Breakthrough,” a new series from the Prognosis podcast, Bloomberg’s Jason Gale traces the early origins of a patient-led movement that drew lessons from AIDS activism to demand that the medical establishment liste...
Part One: Long Covid’s Early Origins
October 19, 2021 08:00 - 29 minutes - 27 MBWith a loss of smell and a high fever, New Yorker Fiona Lowenstein had a classic case of Covid-19 before she knew what a classic Covid case was. But there was more she didn't know: she was also about to join a burgeoning group we now know as “long haulers.” On the first episode of “Breakthrough,” a new series from the Prognosis podcast, Bloomberg’s Jason Gale traces the early origins of a patient-led movement that drew lessons from AIDS activism to demand that the medical establishment listen...
Introducing: Breakthrough
October 06, 2021 19:49 - 2 minutes - 2.79 MBOn Breakthrough, a new series from the Prognosis podcast, we explore how the pandemic is changing our understanding of healthcare and medicine. We start with an examination of long Covid, a mysterious new illness that has stumped doctors attempting to treat symptoms that last for months and potentially years. It has changed the way hospitals work and forced healthcare officials to prepare for the next pandemic. Covid has also opened the door to revolutionary technology: messenger RNA vaccine...
Doubt, Bonus: A Surprising Southern Success
September 28, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBDemographics alone would suggest Bradley County, Arkansas, should be struggling fiercely with local resistance against vaccines, just as many other counties are all across the southern U.S. Yet in July, Governor Asa Hutchinson announced that Bradley was the first county in Arkansas to inoculate at least half of its eligible population. At the time, that was more than twice the rate of several other Arkansas counties. In this bonus episode we head to Bradley County to find out what’s going ...
Part Six: Hope
April 20, 2021 08:00 - 52 minutesIn our final episode of the season, we look at where vaccine hesitancy stands in America today. More Americans are getting vaccinated every day, but the numbers of skeptics are still high enough to seriously threaten efforts to achieve widespread immunity and end the pandemic. The answer to solving that problem, though, may be an attitude adjustment from public health. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Doubt, Part Six: Hope
April 20, 2021 08:00 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBIn our final episode of the season, we look at where vaccine hesitancy stands in America today. More Americans are getting vaccinated every day, but the numbers of skeptics are still high enough to seriously threaten efforts to achieve widespread immunity and end the pandemic. The answer to solving that problem, though, may be an attitude adjustment from public health. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Doubt, Part Five: Getting Out of the Boat
April 13, 2021 08:00 - 39 minutes - 36.7 MBWe meet Dr. Timothy Sloan, a pastor of a black church in Texas, who is torn over how to talk to his congregants about the Covid-19 vaccines. He is skeptical about getting one, and knows the rest of his church is, too. But, the vaccines could also be a lifeline. Black Americans have died at about twice the rate of white Americans from the virus. So while there may be trust issues with the vaccines in communities of color, they’re also the communities that need vaccines the most. Dr. Sloan goe...
Part Five: Getting Out of the Boat
April 13, 2021 08:00 - 42 minutesWe meet Dr. Timothy Sloan, a pastor of a black church in Texas, who is torn over how to talk to his congregants about the Covid-19 vaccines. He is skeptical about getting one, and knows the rest of his church is, too. But, the vaccines could also be a lifeline. Black Americans have died at about twice the rate of white Americans from the virus. So while there may be trust issues with the vaccines in communities of color, they’re also the communities that need vaccines the most. Dr. Sloan goes...
Doubt, Part Four: 'Let's Go to War'
April 06, 2021 08:00 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBIn October 2020, anti-vaccine elite gathered for a conference to discuss, among other things, how to use the pandemic to grow their movement. In this episode, we travel inside the world of anti-vaccine extremists to show how they weaponize uncertainty and mistrust to spread rumors about vaccines — rumors that threaten to prolong the global pandemic. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Four: 'Let's Go to War'
April 06, 2021 08:00 - 51 minutesIn October 2020, anti-vaccine elite gathered for a conference to discuss, among other things, how to use the pandemic to grow their movement. In this episode, we travel inside the world of anti-vaccine extremists to show how they weaponize uncertainty and mistrust to spread rumors about vaccines — rumors that threaten to prolong the global pandemic. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Doubt, Part Three: The Happiest Place on Earth
March 30, 2021 08:00 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBThe 2015 Disneyland measles outbreak was a pivotal moment in explaining the vaccine hesitation we see today. The outbreak made clear that number of people opting out of vaccination was significant. But it also changed the people protesting vaccines. Before that, activists speaking out about vaccines had mainly been parents concerned about the safety of their kids. California's push to get rid of vaccine exemptions in the wake of the outbreak changed the conversation. It became political. It ...
Part Three: The Happiest Place on Earth
March 30, 2021 08:00 - 43 minutesThe 2015 Disneyland measles outbreak was a pivotal moment in explaining the vaccine hesitation we see today. The outbreak made clear that number of people opting out of vaccination was significant. But it also changed the people protesting vaccines. Before that, activists speaking out about vaccines had mainly been parents concerned about the safety of their kids. California's push to get rid of vaccine exemptions in the wake of the outbreak changed the conversation. It became political. It b...
Part Two: The Man Behind The Myth
March 23, 2021 08:14 - 1 hourMeet the man behind all the myths: Andrew Wakefield. Wakefield’s retracted 1998 study linking autism to vaccines helped kickstart the modern vaccine hesitancy movement. We’ll explore the forces that helped propel Wakefield into the spotlight and show how groundwork Wakefield laid decades ago helped seed the mistrust we’re seeing in the age of the coronavirus. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Doubt, Part Two: The Man Behind The Myth
March 23, 2021 08:14 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBMeet the man behind all the myths: Andrew Wakefield. Wakefield’s retracted 1998 study linking autism to vaccines helped kickstart the modern vaccine hesitancy movement. We’ll explore the forces that helped propel Wakefield into the spotlight and show how groundwork Wakefield laid decades ago helped seed the mistrust we’re seeing in the age of the coronavirus. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Doubt, Part One: Rumor Has It
March 23, 2021 08:11 - 43 minutesIn the series premiere of "Doubt," we meet Jon, a New York City paramedic struggling to decide whether he should get vaccinated. Bloomberg health reporter Kristen V. Brown shows how the pandemic has led many people like him to question vaccines for the first time — and how this distrust threatens to prolong the pandemic. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Part One: Rumor Has It
March 23, 2021 08:11 - 43 minutesIn the series premiere of "Doubt," we meet Jon, a New York City paramedic struggling to decide whether he should get vaccinated. Bloomberg health reporter Kristen V. Brown shows how the pandemic has led many people like him to question vaccines for the first time — and how this distrust threatens to prolong the pandemic. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Doubt, Part One: Rumor Has It
March 23, 2021 08:11 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBIn the series premiere of "Doubt," we meet Jon, a New York City paramedic struggling to decide whether he should get vaccinated. Bloomberg health reporter Kristen V. Brown shows how the pandemic has led many people like him to question vaccines for the first time — and how this distrust threatens to prolong the pandemic. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What Closing Schools Has Done to Kids
March 15, 2021 21:17 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MBThis month marks the one-year anniversary in the U.S. of nationwide school closures. The public health measure was designed to help stem the spread of Covid-19. But in doing so, it’s had a profound effect on children. That’s in contrast to the disease itself, which rarely makes young people seriously ill. Jason Gale talked to experts about kids and Covid, and why keeping children out of the classroom may leave a lasting legacy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Science of Beating Variants
March 12, 2021 22:23 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBFast-moving variants of the coronavirus seen in England, South Africa and Brazil have sparked concern around the world. Researchers worry some may diminish the potency of existing vaccines and complicate efforts to escape the pandemic. As COVID-19 cases started to climb in early 2020, British scientists decided to track the evolution of the pathogen. James Paton reports that this project gives the country and others the chance to respond quickly if alarming changes arise. See omnystudio.com...