I used to quite enjoy his podcasts but then they went really heavy on the health side, and the guests started getting more intense or extreme in their views and theories. I really enjoyed the one with the girl from The Ordinary - crazy story!
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It's the eyes, they look evil!
He loves giving very dodgy people like Russell Brand & Simon Cowell a platform. And to further underline how unscrupulous he is...
news.sky.com
Huel and Zoe ads banned over Dragons' Den star endorsements
The sponsored posts featuring Steven Bartlett should have made clear that he had financial ties to the nutrition brands, the advertising regulator said.
The best thing on Facebook for Huel was even though didn't declare it lots of people put it in comments and slated the product for it.He loves giving very dodgy people like Russell Brand & Simon Cowell a platform. And to further underline how unscrupulous he is...
Huel and Zoe ads banned over Dragons' Den star endorsements
The sponsored posts featuring Steven Bartlett should have made clear that he had financial ties to the nutrition brands, the advertising regulator said.
This made me laugh a bit too hard 
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Rags to riches bs
Is it an energy drink?This made me laugh a bit too hard
Consider yourself very lucky if you've never heard of Huel. It's marketed as a meal replacement protein shake, modern day herbalife i guess, specifically targeted at gym/fitness bros.
Their marketing is aggressive and it's everywhere.
It's slimey and it gives you diarrhoea like @Dublin18 said.
Hence that comment was so funny!
What's most annoying about this is that I can no longer trust anything ZOE says. I know their podcast has always been meant to getting people into the subscription health service, but it was a good free resource. Bartlett now, and previously Tim Spector's nonsense about you should be avoiding SPF in the winter so not to get a vitamin D defiecency, and I can't listen to a single thing they say now.
I've always found Zoe/Tim Spector icky but could never quite find the right way to articulate it.
I think it is the combination of dishing out health and nutrition advice + selling the Zoe subscription service that is rubbing me the wrong way.
The Zoe monitor is absolutely not necessary for the average healthy person.
Absolutely the health influencers are encouraging it and to worry about changes in your insulin levels that are normal. Lost count of people saying this causes a spike etc, so what it doesn't bleeping matter for a average person who isn't diabetic.
Honestly, the more people who see through Steven’s absolute bs, the better. I’m so sick of seeing friends / past colleagues sharing ‘quotes’ from him like he’s some kind of messiah. So cringe.
I mean loads of fitness influebcers do this, ell courses and fitness plans through a subscription, these academics probably thought if they can do it why not us
Zoe also laid off a lot of staff a few months back
I’ve done the Zoe thing and while it’s interesting, they don’t really explain what the results of your tests mean, other than keep subscribing to our app so we can tell you what you should be eating to improve your ‘scores’ but then they don’t offer the options to redo the tests to see if their advice actually works. Plus all the recipes use so many random expensive ingredients and recommend their overpriced sprinkles and drinks which are both processed, the very thing they tell you not to eat 
so it was a massive disappointment for me
so it was a massive disappointment for meHonestly never heard of it or ever seen it advertised !
I thought the podcast was a really good aggregator of accessible health and nutrition knowledge but after Tim Spector SPF-gate there's no way anything can be trusted that he says.
I never got the subscription service and monitoring blood glucose levels. A banana is perfectly healthy but it might spike your blood glucose levels? Why is that a bad thing? As long as you're not necking bananas and chocolate all day then you will be fine.
I never got the subscription service and monitoring blood glucose levels. A banana is perfectly healthy but it might spike your blood glucose levels? Why is that a bad thing? As long as you're not necking bananas and chocolate all day then you will be fine.
Also tbh any app monitoring health details will just end up sending details to health companies, which is worrying. I was so disappointed by Spector, he is so qualified etc but has totally devalued himself
Ah yes, business lessons from brutal criminals who have done unforgivable things. Brilliant idea to start taking tips and tricks on leadership and resilience from the likes of Tony Soprano.
Tim Spector has said so many ridiculous things that I have no trust in anything he's saying. Nutrition expert my ass. He also says a lot of things that vilifies specific foods which is just such rubbish. No one food is going to make or break your health. I honestly believe anything he says is just marketing to steer people towards his products rather than genuine scientific advice