What is the problem with the "maxxing" culture?

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of the 'maxxing' culture on health as influenced by social media.

Social media has fundamentally reshaped how individuals conceptualize health, identity, and self-improvement. Recently, there has been a movement labeled as "maxxing" that pushes the notion of what is healthy and what behaviors should be used to achieve health. As with many fads related to health we have mixture of pseudoscience and logical fallacies pushing a health narrative, but what is the impact of the emerging “maxxing” trends across social media platforms on our health? Well, let's talk about that... Please make sure to follow our work on: Webpage @ https://www.scientific-health.org/ YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/@Scientific.Health.Education Substack @ https://jeclark.substack.com Instagram @ https://www.instagram.com/sci.health.performance/ Threads @ https://www.threads.net/@sci.health.performance Bluesky @ scientific-health.bsky.social If you want to support what is being published, please make sure to subscribe and become a supporter on the substack .

Topics covered

• maxxing culture
• social media
• health trends
• pseudoscience
• self-improvement

Keywords

• maxxing
• health
• identity
• self-improvement
• social media
• pseudoscience
• logical fallacies

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Organizations: Scientific Health: Education and Human Performance

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