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200 Words is a new column where people we admire write 200 words about anything they want.
My general lifestyle is extremely unhealthy – I love trying new flavours and variations of processed foods, which is why I always up getting freeze-dried sour Skittles stuck in my teeth, or whatever, and I also go out heaps, don't sleep as much as I should, and use lots of salt in my cooking. All this being said, I think that there is something weird and unnerving about the way everyone seems to be shooting themselves up with black market peptides or increasing their GLP-1 dosages or, if they're really rich, doing "ozone therapy," which is a blood cleaning service that uses highly toxic ozone to do some kind of vanity dialysis.
Aside from the time outlay of, say, getting your blood cleaned or injecting yourself with a blue potion every day, I can't see any real spiritual benefit to being exceptionally skinny but having no desire for anything, or getting better muscle definition but running the risk of days of nerve pain if you inject into the wrong place. All this stinks of cope, obviously, and maybe it is, but I also kind of like the idea of being a weird haggard cretin with a rich inner life unconcerned with things like potion dosage and fat percentage. I'll leave being punishingly beautiful to people who actually get paid for it!
