We’ve kicked off a brand-new season on Moonshots — and we didn’t start with supplements, wearables, or ice baths.
We started with the thing that quietly determines whether any of that works at all:
Food.
In this first episode, Mike and Mark explore In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan — a book that cuts through diet confusion with one unforgettable principle:
Eat Food. Mostly Plants. Not Too Much.
Before optimisation comes foundation.
You can’t hack a body that’s running on the wrong fuel.
🎧 What This Episode Is About
Modern diet culture taught us to see food as numbers — carbs, fats, protein, calories. Pollan argues that this way of thinking quietly broke our relationship with eating.
In the episode, we unpack how the industrial food system and “nutrition claims” reshaped behaviour — and why returning to simple, whole foods might be the most powerful health intervention available.
Mike and Mark walk through:
why processed foods confuse hunger signals
how supermarkets manipulate health perception
why cooking is a biological advantage
how diet fads distract from fundamentals
This isn’t a diet episode.
It’s a systems episode — about inputs and outputs in the human body.
🔑 Core Ideas We Explore
1) Eat Food. Mostly Plants. Not Too Much.
A brutally simple framework:
Eat Food — real ingredients, not industrial formulations
Mostly Plants — fibre and micronutrients regulate metabolism
Not Too Much — portion awareness fixes many modern problems
No tracking apps required.
2) The “Age of Nutritionism”
Pollan argues we stopped eating foods and started eating nutrients.
Low-fat.
Low-carb.
High-protein.
Keto.
Superfoods.
When food becomes chemistry instead of culture, the food industry wins — and humans get metabolically confused.
3) The Western Diet Problem
The modern supermarket is optimized for:
shelf life
convenience
hyper-palatability
Not health.
The episode explains why home cooking may be the most effective preventative medicine we have.
4) Defending Food
Food isn’t only fuel.
It regulates hormones, sleep, inflammation, mood, and focus.
Changing what you eat changes how your brain works — which is why this episode opens the biohacking series.
🗳 Help Us Choose The Next Episodes
We’re letting listeners steer the season.
Vote for the next books Mike & Mark should cover:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/were-launching-150884184
Current candidates include breathing, mobility, trauma regulation, flow states, longevity and metabolic health.
(And yes — cold exposure is coming.)
Why We Started Here
Biohacking often starts at the extreme.
Ice baths.
Peptides.
Supplements.
Sleep trackers.
But the truth is simpler:
If nutrition is wrong, everything else becomes compensation.
This series is about fixing inputs first — so performance becomes a consequence, not a constant struggle.
Episode one is live.
