Food Junkies Podcast

Vera Tarman, Clarissa Kennedy

Booking Overview

A health and recovery interview podcast focused on food addiction, abstinence-based recovery, eating disorders, and related clinical and lived-experience perspectives, typically featuring clinicians, researchers, authors, addiction professionals, and people with established recovery stories. Suitable pitches include food-addiction specialists, eating-disorder and behavioral-health clinicians, researchers, authors, and credible recovery advocates with substantial personal or professional expertise; booking difficulty is medium because the show welcomes relevant niche experts but expects strong subject-matter alignment.

Metrics

Episodes: 327

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 12.0k subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

crissy_kennedy@hotmail.com

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Host

Vera Tarman - Physician specializing in addiction medicine and author of Food Junkies.

Clarissa Kennedy - Podcast publisher and co-host focused on food-addiction recovery education.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Clinicians, addiction professionals, psychologists, researchers, authors, program founders, and people with substantial lived experience of food addiction and recovery.

Required Achievements:

Relevant clinical or research practice, Published books or studies, Leadership in food-addiction or recovery organizations, Long-term documented recovery experience

Recent Guest Discussions

Brian Baumal - Perfectionism, Shame, Diet Culture, Gestalt Therapy, Relapse Planning, And Sustainable Food-addiction Recovery.

Lara Pedersen - Early Food Addiction, The Experience Of Addiction While Competing As An Elite Athlete, Recovery, And Writing About Her Journey.

Susan Peirce Thompson - Six-year Recovery Outcomes, Bright Line Eating, Glp-1 Medications, Maintenance, Identity Shifts, Grief, And Long-term Food-addiction Recovery.

Recent Topics

Food Addiction, Recovery, Eating Disorders, Addiction Medicine, Weight Management

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Food Junkies Podcast

Food Junkies Recovery Stories Episode 37: April Oscarson

August 18, 2026

In this episode, CJ sits down with April for a thoughtful, reflective conversation about recovery. April brings a quiet intentionality to the way she understands healing, growth, and the ongoing work of becoming. Her perspective is introspective, honest, and at times existential, inviting us to slow down and consider what recovery truly asks of us. This conversation has a different rhythm—less about quick answers and more about meaningful questions, self-awareness, and the space between where...

Episode 291: Dr. Matt Bernstein, MD | Metabolic Psychiatry, Ketosis, and Food Addiction

August 13, 2026

Can changing what you eat treat depression, anxiety, and even psychosis more effectively than medication alone? In this episode of Food Junkies, Dr. Vera Tarman sits down with Dr. Matt Bernstein, MD, psychiatrist and CEO of Accord, to unpack the emerging field of metabolic psychiatry — and what it means for people recovering from food addiction. Dr. Bernstein trained at Columbia, Penn, and the MGH-McLean Psychiatry Program before shifting from traditional hospital-based psychiatric care towar...

Episode 290: Dr. Carolyn Dean | Magnesium, Yeast Overgrowth & Sugar Cravings

July 30, 2026

Fatigue. Brain fog. Cravings that never quit no matter how "good" you're eating. In this episode of Food Junkies, Dr. Vera Tarman sits down with Dr. Carolyn Dean — MD, naturopath, and author of more than 50 books including The Magnesium Miracle — to unpack a piece of the addiction and recovery puzzle that rarely gets airtime: magnesium deficiency and its tangled relationship with yeast overgrowth, sugar metabolism, and chronic cravings. Dr. Dean has spent over five decades in integrative and ...

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