# ashok (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ashok. Page: Feed: --- ## WE ARE WHAT WE EAT—EPISODE 3 OF 4 _2026-08-24 · Pay the Farmer, Not the Pharmacy_ Share your thoughts The Great Decoupling: Sixty Years, One Chart (We Are What We Eat, Part 3 of 4) At the heart of Ashok's Substack essay is a single chart: sixty years of food industry growth — revenue up ~26x, market value up ~100x since 1980 — drawn against sixty years of rising obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and depression. In Part 3, Ashok and Meera read that chart honestly: not as… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1057315/episodes/19586021-we-are-what-we-eat-episode-3-of-4.mp3) ## WE ARE WHAT W EAT— EPISODE 2 OF 4 _2026-08-17 · Pay the Farmer, Not the Pharmacy_ Share your thoughts The Four Disorders: What Modern Food Does to Us (We Are What We Eat, Part 2 of 4) Obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, depression — four conditions that now define modern healthcare, each with a direct line to the plate. In Part 2 of our series based on Ashok's Substack essay "We Are What We Eat," Ashok and Meera take the four disorders one at a time and follow the evidence:… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1057315/episodes/19586017-we-are-what-w-eat-episode-2-of-4.mp3) ## WE ARE WHAT WE EAT: EPISODE 1 OF 4 _2026-08-10 · Pay the Farmer, Not the Pharmacy_ Share your thoughts The Promise: How Food Became an Industry (We Are What We Eat, Part 1 of 4) For 150 years, the food industry was one of civilization's great success stories. In Part 1 of this four-part series — based on Ashok's Substack essay "We Are What We Eat — And What the Food Industry Decided to Feed Us" — Ashok and Meera trace the remarkable arc from Nicolas Appert's 1810 preservation… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1057315/episodes/19586013-we-are-what-we-eat-episode-1-of-4.mp3) ## Cyclospora: Ep 2/2 A little "Heat" goes a long way _2026-08-03 · Pay the Farmer, Not the Pharmacy_ Share your thoughts As always in this series, co-hosts Ashok and Meera Vasudevan pull up two chairs for a fireside chat — evidence-based, a little cheeky, and firmly in the kitchen, never the clinic. This is Part 2 of a two-part special. Part 1 left us with a puzzle: the one thing that would have stopped the Cyclospora outbreak — heat — is the thing the raw-food gospel never mentions. So this… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1057315/episodes/19547422-cyclospora-ep-2-2-a-little-heat-goes-a-long-way.mp3) ## Cyclospora: The Salad that bit back. Ep 1/2 _2026-07-27 · Pay the Farmer, Not the Pharmacy_ Share your thoughts As always in this series, co-hosts Ashok and Meera Vasudevan pull up two chairs for a fireside chat — evidence-based, a little cheeky, and firmly in the kitchen, never the clinic. This is Part 1 of a two-part special, timed to the 2026 Cyclospora outbreak. First, the basics done properly: what cyclosporiasis is, and how you actually get it — no biology lecture, just the one… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1057315/episodes/19547418-cyclospora-the-salad-that-bit-back-ep-1-2.mp3) ## Pharma, Food & the Fluent Consumer- Ep.4/4 _2026-07-20 · Pay the Farmer, Not the Pharmacy_ Share your thoughts We read our lunch like a lab report — and feel virtuous about a bar built in a factory while waving off dal and rice as “just carbs.” In the finale of “Off the Treadmill,” co-hosts Ashok and Meera Vasudevan take the third corner of the triangle — us — and show how our own fluency makes us the perfect customer. Then they step off. As always in this series, co-hosts Ashok and… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1057315/episodes/19416794-pharma-food-the-fluent-consumer-ep-4-4.mp3) ## Pharma, Food & the Fluent Consumer Ep.3/4 _2026-07-13 · Pay the Farmer, Not the Pharmacy_ Share your thoughts How many eggs are you allowed this week? Depends what year you ask. In Episode 3 of 4 in thos series co-hosts Ashok and Meera Vasudevan take the second corner of the triangle — the food industry — and the verdicts that flip a full 180 degrees within a decade. Eggs, butter, coconut oil… and the peanut reversal whose bill was paid by children. In this episode • The egg: 47 years… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1057315/episodes/19416792-pharma-food-the-fluent-consumer-ep-3-4.mp3) ## Pharma, Food & the Fluent Consumer Ep.2/4 _2026-07-06 · Pay the Farmer, Not the Pharmacy_ Share your thoughts In this episode 2/4, co-hosts Ashok and Meera Vasudevan pull up two chairs for a fireside chat — evidence-based, a little cheeky, and firmly in the kitchen, never the clinic. Medical thresholds move — and they almost always move in the direction that creates more patients. In this episode, they walk through the quiet downward drift in the levels of blood pressure, cholesterol,… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1057315/episodes/19416781-pharma-food-the-fluent-consumer-ep-2-4.mp3) ## Pharma, Food & the Fluent Consumer Ep.1/4 _2026-06-29 · Pay the Farmer, Not the Pharmacy_ Share your thoughts As always, in this series too, co-hosts Ashok and Meera Vasudevan pull up two chairs for a fireside chat — evidence-based, a little cheeky, and firmly in the kitchen, never the clinic. This is Episode 1 of their four-part series adapted from Ashok's widely-shared essay “Pharma, Food, and the Fluent Consumer.” In this episode • How the 2017 blood-pressure rule made ~31 million… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1057315/episodes/19400356-pharma-food-the-fluent-consumer-ep-1-4.mp3) ## You are Not That Busy— Ep 4/4 of the Series The Kitcehn Defence _2026-06-22 · Pay the Farmer, Not the Pharmacy_ Share your thoughts When did we decide a manicure is self-care but cooking is a burden? In the finale of The Kitchen Defence, Ashok and Meera take apart the last excuse standing — 'I'm too busy' — with affection and a straight face. We prep our work wardrobes and our beauty routines; we can prep dinner. One gives you shiny nails. The other keeps you alive and shining. You are not that busy — and… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1057315/episodes/19303587-you-are-not-that-busy-ep-4-4-of-the-series-the-kitcehn-defence.mp3) ## [A Friend Gave You $30 (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/0S2zZgmRkrlw) _2026-06-22 · **Sponsored**_ Sign up, deposit $5 within 30 days, and start investing with expert guidance. ## The Masterchefs—Ep 3/4 of the Series The Kitchen Defence _2026-06-15 · Pay the Farmer, Not the Pharmacy_ Share your thoughts Before paracetamol, before antibiotics, there was the spice rack. In episode 3 of The Kitchen Defence, Ashok and Meera pay tribute to our grandmothers — the original MasterChefs who were also the original pharmacists. They ran farms, families and a full healing lexicon of foods, with no Instapot and very little help. What did they know that we forgot — and how do we get it… [Listen](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1057315/episodes/19303575-the-masterchefs-ep-3-4-of-the-series-the-kitchen-defence.mp3)