I fell for it.

At the end of another stressful day, I absentmindedly scrolled through my social media feed. The next thing I knew, I was nodding along to the video of a fitness influencer, as though she were a trusted doctor.

I knew she wasn’t a licensed trainer, nutritionist, or physician. Yet with words like “inflammation” and “hormonal imbalance,” she convinced me within seconds that my exercise routine was terrible, my diet in shambles, and I needed to click immediately on “Shop now” to buy a protein powder supplement formulated specifically for women that the manufacturer was paying her to promote.

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