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Part One: How the First Fitness Influencer Doomed Us All

Behind the Bastards

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Papa Mac Fadden's Dad Was an Alcoholic

When bernard was still a little kid, his mother decided she had had enough. She flees her husband and their home to stay with her family. Less than a year after she leaves him, when bernard is four, his dad dies from alcohol abuse. Bernard's biographer, mark adams, describes him as a mamma's boy. At age seven, he was vaccinated for small pox. Ti: A bad vaccine for the vast majority of people means like, shiddy for a day? Like you would shove a razor blade into someone else's scab?, Rase says. This does not work in this case; we'll ask that question later.

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