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The Rise of the Health Preacher: False Idols and Pseudoscience in Longevity Health

Published 10 months ago • 1 min read

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Eat 40g of protein with every meal, ideally 4 hours apart.

Fast every night for 12-18 hours.

A vegan diet is the best way to improve your health.

The best quality protein is animal protein.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

These are just some of the prescriptions for eternal youth and longevity you might have heard recently from your favorite podcast for YouTube channel. I'm not here to promote any of them, nor to counter any.

Instead, I want to highlight the phenomenon we're experiencing in the world of health and wellness - the rise of the health preacher.

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Have you ever found yourself wondering about a headache, which led you to search about supplements, which then led you to like and subscribe to a health influencer that you then started listening to for the next three hours?

Information-seeking is an adaptive human behavior. We evolved to seek more information, to sleuth, to learn more about the world we live in and find solutions to our ailments.

However, in an age where info-seeking is as simple as a tap and a scroll, and our problems are seemingly magnified by the more we know, we end up in a vicious cycle of information addiction.

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