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The World’s Most Expensive Eating Disorder
8 Jan 2025
The World’s Most Expensive Eating Disorder. On Bryan Johnson, of “injecting my son’s blood plasma to make myself biologically younger” fame. As the article itself notes, it’s a little harsh, and psychology by media is never really a thing people should do. But I watched the Netflix doco, and you really can see the parallels to eating disordered behaviour. Bryan talks through his depressive episodes, and the relief he experiences by engaging in high-demand control of his eating and other health behaviours. ED in men (and, these days, increasingly in other genders) can often look a bit different. Concentration on muscle-mass and definition, for example, instead of weight loss is very common. Makes sense that we might see it bleed into this optimising/bio-hacking space too.
Anthologies: Betterment, Somatic Architecture, On (Un)happiness, On Aesthetics, On Culture