marginalium noun
the notes one makes in the margins.
A short note on
the world's most expensive eating disorder
January 8, 2025
source: desmolysium.com
by Dorian Minors
I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.
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.
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