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Bad health advice proliferating on instagram and tiktok etc?

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nightcity · 17/02/2024 21:16

I follow Davina Taylor on instagram, I think I must has followed her because she was doing a live with someone else I followed. I thought she was some kind of health expert herself but she was apparently a footballers girlfriend / it girl way back in the 90's which is before my time so I don't recall her heyday and I don't really know if she was ever that famous.

Anyway, she keeps popping up in my feed with her lifestyle advice, talking about biohacking, untested and unproven health treatments, eating carnivore, and that vegetables are toxic and other various bro science scams, all the while trying to flog her supplements. I looked her up and she doesn't seem to have any relevant qualifications at all. I think she has even written books about diet and hacking your hormones.

I know that you don't go taking random health advice from unqualified people on Instagram but there are people in her comments talking about doing carnivore for their families including children and worrying about the fact that they have given their children "toxic" broccoli! Isn't this kind of thing somewhat harmful? Personally I have unfollowed her.

I know you can't police what people put online really and that there are lots of quacks out their looking to make a quick buck off other peoples insecurities and ignorance but I just don't get what someone would give follow someone with absolutely no professional background in health or relevant qualifications at all?

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Letsseewhattomorrowbrings · 17/02/2024 21:20

Was she in Hollyoaks?

Station11 · 17/02/2024 21:26

She was!
Just stay off both instagram and ticktok.

WittyMotherhoodRelatedPun · 17/02/2024 21:28

She was an actor and she is the daughter of some sort of toilet paper millionaire!

nightcity · 17/02/2024 21:28

@Station11 Well I'm not stupid enough to fall for dumb insta guru advice, mostly I use instagram for looking at artists work and recipes, my following her was very random.

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nightcity · 17/02/2024 21:29

WittyMotherhoodRelatedPun · 17/02/2024 21:28

She was an actor and she is the daughter of some sort of toilet paper millionaire!

Well lets not get carried away, she was on Hollyoaks, I'm not sure that qualifies as acting! Didn't know she was a Heiress, especially as she is doing some major grifting online.

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AnneLovesGilbert · 17/02/2024 21:31

I’ll have to google biohacking.

There have always been cranks and social media means they can spread their net wider than ever.

WittyMotherhoodRelatedPun · 17/02/2024 21:31

https://www.beccabarrmanagement.co.uk/talent/davinia-taylor

Poorly written, but it mentions being for people who are “sick and tired of the ‘everything in moderation’ mantra “ which says it all really! She’s for people who want to go to extremes

Becca Barr Management

https://www.beccabarrmanagement.co.uk/talent/davinia-taylor

nightcity · 17/02/2024 21:34

@WittyMotherhoodRelatedPun Interesting, she seems a bit unstable in her videos at times but I don't know her personal history, she seems quite slim but otherwise I don't think she is a good advert for her products of lifestyle.

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HelloMiss · 17/02/2024 21:44

Oh well, each to their own and all that

peanutbutterkid · 17/02/2024 21:50

I'm not a Michael Mosley fan, but...
I'm staying with someone who watches a lot of TV, and that includes MM trying out daft health improvement ideas.
The best bit of programme is when MM tries the potion or food or exercise or habit combo & you see him suffer with how vile it is.

Yes there's a lot of pointless and even dodgy advice out there.

Letsseewhattomorrowbrings · 17/02/2024 22:01

She seems well informed, she’s v Northern and likeable in my view 🤷🏻‍♀️

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