Victoria Song

I have not!

More like the influencers trying to sell you supplements

The handshake meme where one arm says "wellness" and the other arm says "AI bros" and the part where their hands meet says "Grifting"

How I'm feeling these days.

🥲

No lies were told.

Trump’s surgeon general nominee is running the wellness grifter playbook perfectly It’s all about supplements and ‘good energy.’

When @vicmsong.bsky.social and I talked about how covering fitness and wearable tech meant her beat now included wellness... well, I told her it was going to get bad and weird fast www.theverge.com/column/88992...

It hurt every brain cell and my editors will attest I came running screaming into the DMs almost every chapter in real time.

Trump’s surgeon general nominee is running the wellness grifter playbook perfectly It’s all about supplements and ‘good energy.’

From Casey Means' own book: "the ability to prevent and reverse" conditions like cancer and Alzheimer's "—and feel incredible today—is under your control and simpler than you think."

This week on The Optimizer, @vicmsong.bsky.social lays out how wellness influencers exploit public hopelessness.

Trump’s surgeon general nominee is running the wellness grifter playbook perfectly It’s all about supplements and ‘good energy.’

This week’s Optimizer is about the wellness grifter playbook… and how perfectly Casey Means executes it.

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Compounding pharmacies aren’t necessarily bad — they’re vital in cases where say, a patient is allergic to something in the commercially available formulation. Many are legit. But it’s getting wild out there.

The wellness wild west is back on its bullshit with unapproved weight loss drugs I bought an unapproved, experimental drug in five minutes on TikTok.

That one and this one: www.theverge.com/column/84640...

I’m currently in the middle of reporting out wtf is in this bottle of gray market peptide

In my research, the comments on socials for these influencers pushing peptides gave me hives; there are legitimately ppl talking about adverse reactions at injection sites, improper storage, and asking advice from influencers who are always like “hmmm. You must not be doing it right.”

Um…

The influencers teaching ppl how to reconstitute stuff while not washing their hands or disinfecting all surfaces before injections sent me.

I keep screaming about this in my newsletter. But a lot of it is influencers seeding distrust in institutions and saying “here’s a simpler, less corrupt solution that they don’t want you to know.”

It’s always this shit and supplements.

The wellness to MAHA pipeline is real and brain breaking.

i feel like i've walked in on a ritual. amazing.

so snug. i love.

BABIES

what a tum!

powerful

Mooch is purrfect

That’s a prime loaf

Bokeh kitties 💕

Cow-cow is diabolically cute

What a nugget

Majestic

So chic.

Elegant. My brown tabby also shrimp curls just like that.

PRECIOUS BABY

And void

Excellent tux

Every time I research wellness influencer trends, I lose one billion mental health points.

I am at negative 80 quadrillion points.

Please reply with cat photos. 1 photo = 1 quadrillion mental health points.