“Legit medical answers probably won’t be found on TikTok…or at the bottom of an empty bowl of bone broth.”
And once you go looking for this type of content, it’ll chase you around via algorithm, too. Curious about what the latest fads-as-health-gospel were, I went down a rabbit hole, and ever since I’ve been inundated with all kinds of targeted ads all claiming some kind of near-overnight success to almost any ailment imaginable.
“It’s the most shocking or interesting things that get promoted in our feed, and a lot of people equate the frequency with which they’re seeing things as fact,” Dr. May said. “You can’t take what you see as truth, you must fact check – and that doesn’t mean Googling. In many cases it means talking to your healthcare provider.”
Good gut health ideally means living without regular symptoms like diarrhea, constipation, abdominal pain, or hyper-sensitivity to foods. In other words: A healthy gut should be able to go through a day without being symptomatic. That depends on our microbiome, the gloriously complex bacterial environment of our GI tracts, which has billions or even trillions of bacteria, some good and some bad.
And then there’s the simple fact that a lot of #guttok is just good, old-fashioned body shaming disguised as wellness.
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