First of all... 🙄 "Influencers" should not be shilling any sort of vitamin, pill, etc, unless they have a career in medicine. This is so wrong on so many levels, and should absolutely be regulated. That is all.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2024
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She lost 100LBS by starving herself and gained fame from it. It totally makes sense that now that she’s no longer on the cover of magazines revealing her “secrets to weight loss” that she becomes a charlatan peddling products to make $ off vulnerable people during an actually economic crisis. This is shameful behaviour.
DO NOT take health advice from people without medical degrees or a background in nutrition, especially when they profit from selling you something. Supplement and vitamin companies relying on (or reaching out to) influencers to sell their products are the worst kind of scum too.
She talks about having headaches, gluten intolerance, dairy intolerance, anxiety, bloating, PMDD, cankers, and she’s morphing from big to skinny all day long with hair that won’t grow? Oh yes, perfect partner for a vitamin brand 🙄.
And I’m not saying that healthy people don’t have health issues beyond their control, but expensive vitamins do not help you get these things under control. If your hair is breaking and won’t grow (always needing extensions to cover this fact), and you get cankers from stress, have anxiety, PMDD, bloating, headaches, etc, then you need to go see a DOCTOR! These are symptoms of quite a few things (possibly PCOS, type 2 diabetes, and even perimenopause to name a few) that might require medical intervention. Doctors can then refer you to specialists (all free in Canada by the way).
As someone with serious health problems and multiple surgeries in my past (all not caused by lifestyle, so beyond my control), I have never been healed by vitamins, but I have been saved by medical experts! And doctors aren’t immediately suggesting surgeries or prescriptions, but they are giving patients requisitions for blood work done and urinalysis, sometimes ultrasounds, and appointments with specialists. Food isn’t medicine (thank you Dr Joshua Wolrich) but often increasing dark leafy greens, whole grains, veggies, reducing or eliminating alcohol, cutting back on sugar, sleeping, getting outside, exercising (or movement if that’s the word you want to use) reducing allergens in the home, and reporting health changes TO YOUR DOCTOR is beneficial.
Not everyone has the privilege to be able to afford vacations to unwind, or buy nutritionally, dense foods, or work in an environment free of stress, or get adequate sleep (or in the United States even afford basic medical appointments) or even live in an area with clean air or access to medical assistance. Her act, that followers will benefit health wise from listening to her advice, is very dangerous, entitled and deplorable. Vitamins and supplements can of course be used for certain ailments : before iron infusions, often you’ll get on iron supplements for example, taking vitamin D can help with some health conditions and even magnesium is suggested by some pros. But diabetics cannot just “wing it” they need insulin. Babies that can’t get breast milk need formula to supplement what they will be missing. People with feeding tubes need a special concoction (created by experts) to survive. Depressed people on drugs can’t just drop it. Trans people depend on gender affirming care. People with kidney or liver disease cannot just take vitamins to heal themselves.
Giving health advice while selling a product is , as the kids would say , SUS. Nobody should be trusting a rando on the internet (who complains about feeling sh*tty on the regular) for health advice.
And no, I am not enough medical expert, which is why I would not give medical advice that would profit me. Read medical journals (and check sources and citations), talk to experts and if $ is involved, then it’s a scam.
While I’m here venting, go check out Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without borders) who actually help people in health crisis). If you have $ to give to a scam vitamin brand, spend it on helping people access actual medical care instead.
Could not have said it better myself 👏👏👏