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this is the wellness wild west

kill switch

Kaleidoscope

Science, News, Technology, Tech News

4.7635 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The wellness and health tech space is more crowded and confusing than ever – influencers are selling dubious health and beauty products and tech companies are developing wearables that track everything, from your sleep to your blood. Victoria Song, senior reviewer at The Verge, calls it the “wellness wild west.” Dexter talks to Victoria about the growing wellness trends online, the gray area between medical devices and wellness devices, and the mental health consequences of it all that no one talks about.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed human.

0:13.8

You were just looking for ways to be healthy,

0:16.8

and all of a sudden you're getting gray market peptides from China

0:19.9

and injecting them into your body.

0:22.1

So it's a Wild West out there and there's no real regulation going on.

0:28.0

Victoria's Song is a senior reviewer at The Verge.

0:30.3

You might remember her from our episode about the Meta Ray bands.

0:33.5

Recently, she's been writing about something that she calls the Wellness Wild West.

0:38.3

Basically, wellness is just anything that's not medicine, right?

0:43.3

You know, stuff like breathing exercises or AG1, which is athletic green supplements, supplements of all kinds.

0:50.3

And online, people be out here making some wild claims as wellness influencers.

0:58.0

I've honestly reversed aged myself using neuroscience and biohacking.

1:01.5

And I've had testing done.

1:02.7

My biological age is 18, which was the youngest that the scale would go.

1:06.2

Here are four ways to biohack your body and truly feel superhuman.

1:10.4

So this little guy right here is called

1:12.5

NAD plus and three days ago I started injecting it into my body. Let me tell you why and what it does.

1:20.7

And a lot of times what they do is they hawk a product and then they will tell you something

1:26.1

that's sort of an actual fact. Put it next to

1:30.9

something that's quite misleading. So you push a thought or an agenda, and that's how you get people,

1:36.1

you know, they're just starting off with supplements and somehow they end up in fascism. That's just

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