Kellogg’s: The Disturbing Reason Corn Flakes Exist

This episode contains adult topics and themes

Ever wondered how the world's most popular cereal ended up in your breakfast bowl?
The story behind Cornflakes is stranger than you'd think, meet John Harvey Kellogg, the man whose obsession with gut health and moral purity accidentally changed the way the world eats breakfast.

0:00 Intro
5:40 Two truths and a lie
7:30 The religious pipeline
10:40 Picking the doctor
13:35 The San
17:45 Gut Health
24:34 The anti masturbation crusade
29:41 The accidental invention
35:11 The rival next door
37:26 The brothers split
43:52 A note on more dark stuff
46:06 The end
50:42 Two truths and a lie
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