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She’s talking about Alan Roberts, he sells protein powder
Not protein powder, but supplements. And he and his wife also do diet and fitness coaching. I've never felt the need to pay for any of these things from him, but don't care that he sells them. As annoying as the shilling is, and as over the top as his persona is, I don't think he's a fraud or a fake, or an ethical black hole like Amron.
He's also a former fat fuck and binge eater who turned himself around, so he knows all of the excuses binge-eating fat fucks use, and all the lies they tell themselves. But nobody needs to watch his videos to come up with valid criticisms of Anna; anybody with a functioning brain can spot what a mess she is and what bullshit she's spouting.
Anna has to be panicking over where to go from here, after the surgery has done fuck all, except, miraculously, make her look even worse.
I think a big part of her panic is that people who are interested in her are getting educated about lipidema, and can see how no, she wasn't "doing all the right things" before the Amron era, and still isn't doing them (especially sticking to an anti-inflammatory diet).
She's made a lot of spurious health claims, with the expectation that having Dr. Amron and THE Karen Herbst, Lipedema Legend! on her side would silence the haters. I don't think she expected that people on the internet would dare question a pair of highly-credentialed, successful physicians the way they have, or pick apart her claims to a rare genetic cause for her fatness, or "well, ackshually" her on Ehlers-Danlos or anti-inflammatory diets.
Then there's the podcast, where Dr. Nance is also supposed to lend the authority of her MD to the project, but ends up having very little to add because she knows almost as little about their interviewees' conditions as Anna does (or at least fails to mitigate that impression). And Anna herself is terrible as a host—she knows nothing, has no genuine curiosity, and is too self-centered to be a good interviewer. I think Anna wants to make the shift to podcasting because she can still do it while her health keeps declining (and because she's always had fantasies of herself as an inspirational, helpful figure), but she's just not good at it—at least not when discussing serious, complex topics with a lot of emotional weight. And having that pointed out to her is devastating, given her inability to handle criticism or learn from it.