ICYMI - Welcome to the TikTok Pharmacy
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🗓️ 22 February 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay aren’t immune to TikTok marketing, even when it comes to healthcare. From Hims and Hers to nutritional gummies to something called “beef tallow,” social media promises the answers to all your medical woes. To figure out how to responsibly navigate this new online healthcare landscape, Candice and Kate talk to NPR pharmaceuticals correspondent, Sydney Lupkin. Sydney recently wrote about the sometimes sketchy world of online weight loss drugs, and shares some tips for separating the solutions from the scams.
This podcast is produced by Alexandra Botti, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim, and Kate Lindsay.
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| 1:15.5 | Hey, I'm Candace Lim. |
| 1:18.8 | And I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I. |
| 1:20.3 | In case you missed it. |
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| 1:28.3 | And Candice, I want to share with you my new, least favorite genre of TikTok. Ooh, I wanna hear more. |
| 1:31.3 | So these videos, they're ads on TikTok, but they're styled like regular TikTok videos. |
| 1:36.3 | But they're from brands like talk-a-try or nourish, |
| 1:41.3 | and they're all meant to look like it's a regular person posting, but it's coming from a brand account. And so it'll say things like, POV, you just found out there's a virtual dietitian or psychologist who takes your insurance and it's this woman walking around like the music is soothing. She's like kicking leaves. It's all it's it's to I hate it. I hate them so |
| 2:03.1 | much. I've kind of seen these before and I always hit like not interested but guess what? They come |
| 2:08.2 | back. They always come back. Well yeah and the problem is and this is where I do it to myself where I |
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