The frustrating thing about wellness is that wellness influencers are subject to a similar level of bad incentives as everyone else. Maybe it's because wellness is not sexy. Sit less, exercise more, eat more vegetables, but then the people who get attention are the "one neat trick folks who want to tell you about something you _don't_ know." And I'm sure Bryan Johnson knows some things your average person doesn't. but is 2% good, 98% crap and he doesn't know which 2% is good?
Point being that maybe the surgeon general should be a wellness expert, but there's as much if not more corruption and snake oil in wellness as their is in big pharma.
It felt like the first half of nominee Casey Means book is very much a repetition of Robert Lustig’s examination of the role of sugar in bad health outcomes, the second half was a sales pitch to buy the services of her company to guide readers to a healthy life. I read it because it was on best seller lists at the time and was just curious what the fuss was about.
The frustrating thing about wellness is that wellness influencers are subject to a similar level of bad incentives as everyone else. Maybe it's because wellness is not sexy. Sit less, exercise more, eat more vegetables, but then the people who get attention are the "one neat trick folks who want to tell you about something you _don't_ know." And I'm sure Bryan Johnson knows some things your average person doesn't. but is 2% good, 98% crap and he doesn't know which 2% is good?
Point being that maybe the surgeon general should be a wellness expert, but there's as much if not more corruption and snake oil in wellness as their is in big pharma.
It felt like the first half of nominee Casey Means book is very much a repetition of Robert Lustig’s examination of the role of sugar in bad health outcomes, the second half was a sales pitch to buy the services of her company to guide readers to a healthy life. I read it because it was on best seller lists at the time and was just curious what the fuss was about.