
Against the Fade — For Men Who Refuse to Fade in Midlife.
Something is happening to men in midlife that nobody talks about. Your body is changing. Your friendships are disappearing. Your sense of purpose is slipping. Society stops seeing you. We call it the fade — and this show exists to fight it.
Against the Fade is a podcast for men 35-65 navigating the realities of midlife — physical decline,... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 8 | Founded | 2 months ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Health & Fitness | |||

When was the last time you did something you'd never done before?
In this episode, Jonathan digs into what writer Christine Rosen calls the extinction of experience, the slow disappearance of direct, firsthand experience from modern life, and why it... more
The most personal episode of Against the Fade yet. This is where the show goes deeper.
In the Foundation Series, we diagnosed the fade: physical decline, social isolation, emotional silence, and identity confusion converging on men in midlife. Epis... more
The Foundation Series finale. This is the prescription.
For five weeks, we diagnosed the fade, the convergent crisis of physical decline, social isolation, emotional silence, and identity confusion hitting men in midlife. In this episode, we stop di... more
Starting around age 30, your testosterone drops about 1% per year. You lose 3–5% of your muscle mass per decade. Your metabolism slows. Your bones weaken. Your recovery takes longer. And nobody tells you that your approach to training has to change w... more
Most men right now have no idea what they’re supposed to be.
One side of the culture says masculinity is the problem. The other side sells you a costume and calls it strength. Neither is real. And so you’re standing in the gap — knowing what you’r... more
Men account for 80% of suicides in the United States — and the highest-risk group is men aged 45 to 65. Yet men are significantly less likely to seek help. Instead, they go silent.
In Episode 3, Jonathan breaks down the emotional fade — the slow pro... more
The number of men who say they have no close friends has risen sharply over the past few decades. Chronic loneliness now carries the same mortality risk as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. And men in midlife are the hardest hit — but the least likely to ... more
Something is happening to men in midlife that nobody's talking about. Physical decline, social isolation, emotional silence, and identity loss are all hitting at the same time — and each one makes the others worse. I'm calling it "the fade." This epi... more
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