Sorry influencers, this headline is here because the main question is are you influencing for your own good or other’s good and none of you will like to hear this question again ever from me or anyone.
I am not against you and money making from social media. Show and Sell is not the sin, it's a common practice that has worked for centuries.I am doing that using this platform, I give ad space to Google and whatever I make is in the open domain.
However, this post is for the college ready teens transitioning from Senior high to College. This is the age when everyone is at the intersection of life to chose a path, so without any claim what I understand is here for readers.
If you are well in your 19, 20, 21 or something like that chances are you are a social media fan, you follow many influencers, you watch reels and maybe you make some too. At this age, especially when out of college many students leave home to stay in a hostel. Suddenly more responsibilities come on soldiers. Keeping track of health, including building muscles, and keeping right weight become a routine.
At this point a line comes from Keats in my mind, Where have we lost knowledge in information, where have we lost wisdom in information.
Healthcare products sell like hot cake, be it a new product or something to lose extra waistline. In social media, there are many influencers who advocates to follow certain routine and take supplements for fitness.
Often such influencers sell affiliate products from which they get commission. Nothing wrong with this. A product may be good or may not be. Without scientific backing you cannot judge whether it's good or not. Hold a minute, all scientific claims are not true, sometimes they are biased, processed food industry is proof of that and people like Ariana Huffington of Thrive Global are putting efforts to get rid of processed food.
Wellness product manufactures are not wrong in marketing a product through social media. It's their right to sell. Buying decisions goes on consumers. And perhaps this is one of the most logical things done illogically.
However, if you are looking for wellness products like weight loss, muscle building, detox or something like that do not take one because your friend is also taking the same and perhaps he looks better now or you are seen in social media and that influencer has millions of followers.
Instead, go to expert nutritionists and related professionals to take advice. Only a certified gym instructor can teach you muscle training, do not do thousands of push ups because other friends are doing hundreds already. Or eat that powder to gain power or lose waistline. Once you try one such thing chances are perhaps you will become habitual of it. May be effects will be visible to you but without knowing if those effects are good or bad you cannot play with one of the most complex things in nature called the human body, right?
Take Healthcare decisions wisely, so you can stay healthy and blessed. A blessed individual is an asset to society who gives back. Thrive in your education, career and life.
This article is backed by Readers Digest article February 2025 Edition article title: Should you try a DETOX TREATMENT, written by Adrienne Matel from The Guardian.
First Edit: 3 September 2025
