Behind The Bite
Hosted by Cristina Castagnini and Dr Cristina Castagnini · Cristina Castagnini
4.8from 89 ratings
- 298
- Episodes
- 16
- Transcribed
- 89
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Behind The Bite
Where a real doctor - who really recovered from an eating disorder - talks about your real struggles with food, body image, and weight. Straight talk from the professional and personal perspective...
- Publisher
- Cristina Castagnini
- Category
- education · health & fitness
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 Oct 2020
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
16 of 298 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep. 298 The Ozempic "Rush": GLP-1's, Sorority Culture and The New Weight Loss Underground
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep. 297 Fit Isn't Failure: Celebrity Stylist Jenni Lee on Why Your Closet Isn't the Enemy
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep. 296 Supporting a Loved One With an Eating Disorder: You Don’t Have to Figure It Out Alone With Cherie Monarch and Nancy Clarkson
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Ep. 298 The Ozempic "Rush": GLP-1's, Sorority Culture and The New Weight Loss Underground
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Late adolescence and early adulthood, roughly ages 18 to 22, is the prime window for the onset of eating disorders. Your brain is still developing and still developing, you know, till like 25, 26. So when you take a young adult who is already anxious about her body and you chemically shut down her brain's hunger signals, you are not curing her body dysmorphia. You are giving... her eating disorder, her dysmorphia, a supercharger, right? GLP-1 sanitize and normalize severe restriction. So it masks an eating disorder until the, under the guise of self-care and modern medicine, right? When people are taking prescriptions or medications, they're telling themselves they're doing something that's healthy, right? […]
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- Jenni Lee
- Cherie Monarch
- Nancy Clarkson
- Toni Curtis
- Tamie Gangloff
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 75 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.2 / 5
- 14 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100
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- Quality
- 85
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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Who hosts Behind The Bite?
Cristina Castagnini and Dr Cristina Castagnini host the show. Published by Cristina Castagnini.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
Does Behind The Bite take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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