Social media is a useful tool to exchange information, and when it comes to health-focused ideas, social media can be a powerful way to learn how to choose healthy behaviors.
Unfortunately, social media has many drawbacks, including the creation of so much noise surrounding what is actually healthy for each individual. There are too many individuals proclaiming that their specific path to better health will be the answer for you too – but that’s most often not the case!
Each of us is a unique human being, so we will all have our own unique health journeys! Because of this, it’s often unhealthy to listen to so many people telling you that you should eat, exercise, and live in certain ways to achieve your own healthiest body.
My intention is not to create noise. My intention is to only create clear signals providing valuable health information that an individual could take in, critically assess, and make their own decisions regarding its use. To do this, I do my best to rely on data and my own critical assessment of it. Meanwhile, I do my best to provide this information in such a way that anyone can take it for what it is and make use of it for his/her own self.
Of course, none of my platforms, including social media, are used to give medical advice or prescribe any health-based information. I am not a licensed health professional and, even if I was, social media is not the means through which to provide this type of individualized information.
Health is highly individualized, and the decisions you make that lead to healthier outcomes for your own self – body and mind – are not going to be best understood using generalized information (which is what all of social media is – free and general information for the entire public).
All this being said, I still believe that social media can be a powerful tool to exchange useful information. Here’s how I do my best to make sure I achieve this outcome:
- Once again, nothing I post, say, write, or in any other way communicate should ever be perceived as medical advice or prescribed actions to achieve healthier outcomes.
- My primary intention is to help you get rid of all the harmful noise surrounding health information. There are too many individuals making claims about health expertise and shouting their ideas as collective truths. Step 1 involves helping people move past all the information that does not lead to healthy outcomes (I like to think of this one as a quality engineer audit – something I do in the medical device industry as I help develop safe medical devices; and, here on my health coaching platforms, I like to apply this to dietary and other health-based information)
- A secondary intention is to help create a clear signal about the best health information possible. This means writing about what is scientifically valid and that which has been tried and tested by individuals just like you.
- I do my best to create a learning environment. Health sciences are complex and the science is constantly evolving. I have zero tolerance for preaching outdated and invalid dogma (especially that which is propagated by industry for the goal of making more $$ off of your unhealthy choices).
My main topics include:
- the process that is learning to make healthier decisions and becoming a healthier individual – because we know that specific plans based on the experience of a small set of individuals shouldn’t be generalized to the whole public!
- the science – I want to help you understand pathways and mechanisms that tie your behavior to health outcomes
- my personal health choices – based on my unique body and life history, I have come to understand what is most healthy for my own body at this point in time; I like to share my own experience so that you can learn from it (not to say that I have perfected this process; there is always room for improvement).
Find me one social media:
Instagram: @yourhealth_reprogrammed
Facebook: Your Health, Reprogrammed
Twitter: kt_reprogrammed