Bodyweight and Mortality: Is Being Underweight Riskier?

In this episode of the Barbell Medicine Podcast, Dr. Jordan Feigenbaum and Dr. Austin Baraki discuss various topics including a purported creatine overdose by golfer Ben Griffin, the implications of GLP-1 agonists on cancer risk, a new weight loss drug called MariTide, LeBron James doing silly exercises, and more.

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Timestamps:

00:45 Ben Griffin overdoses on creatine 

• https://www.instagram.com/p/DNeI9DKxbZc/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== 

09:16 GLP-1 and Cancer Risk

• https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2837870 

17:16 MariTide 

• https://www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1056/NEJMoa2504214 

28:24 Lebron does silly exercise

• https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNgYIMOMRBX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== 

38:24 ChatGPT goes wrong 

• https://tinyurl.com/57c3fh8x 

49:00 Plant-based diets and blood pressure

• https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/JAHA.124.037813 

55:00 Gender eligibility in sport

1:07:00 Bodyweight vs. mortality

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250914205759.htm  

1:14:00 Ultra-Processed Food and MAHA

• Food and Beverage News and Trends - September 19, 2025

1:22:00 -The Rock Loses Weight! 

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