Orthodox Apostasy - The Ultimate Health and Fitness Nerdout
Orthodox Apostasy questions everything—except questioning.
Hosted by a health and fitness thought leader and rebel, this show puts every dogma on trial—guilty until proven innocent.
From the latest in evidence-based methods to raw conversations about the story behind the glory—addiction, mental illness, trauma—we explore the intersection of policy, politics, public health, and faith.
This is the Exodus: a journey out of agribusiness, sick care, and wage slavery toward entrepreneurship and true freedom… and not just the happy TED-talk ending, but the cost—what the 40 years in the desert between slavery and the promised land really looks like.
Orthodox Apostasy - The Ultimate Health and Fitness Nerdout
Stavros Tsipas - Health Economist, American Medical Association
In this episode, Andy and Stavros unpack the cost, cause, and complexity of Modern Industrial Diseases (MIDs)—a catchall Andyism for lifestyle-driven conditions like obesity, hypertension, and Type 2 diabetes. They explore GLP-1 agonists (Ozempic, Wegovy) as promising but costly interventions, while questioning the real ROI of weight loss drugs in public health.
The conversation moves from Medicare data and NHANES statistics to the failure of corporate wellness programs, and why only 5% of people are ever able to sustain real lifestyle changes. If you're curious about what’s really driving the chronic illness epidemic in developed countries—and what it costs us as individuals and a society—this is your episode.