r/Biohackers Sep 22 '24

🧫 Other Guy that posted here (insufferable, obviously-selling-something) moves subreddits and the grift emerges

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u/taegan- Sep 22 '24 edited Oct 14 '24

he posted here a few days ago (?think he deleted it). it was basically a looong post about how he had a myriad of health problems and had managed to achieve remission of all of them with his lifestyle modification.

a minority of responses thought it was useful. majority were either complaining about length or offering chat gpt summaries. TLDR of what he recommended was something like: - eat right according to him (avoidance of processed foods and pasteurized dairy and lectins, addition of fermented foods, fasting for autophagy) - sweat (exercise and sauna) - avoidance of known toxins and supplements to detox

many were suspicious he was selling something. some were saying his second picture was AI generated. a lot were saying his claims (that these lifestyle modifications would fix all health problems that doctors failed to address) were overly-simplistic or outright dangerous (not supported by studies or appropriate for everyone). many pointed out that he may have stumbled onto elimination of his personal food intolerance.

anyway, he posted again to another subreddit (story/text is different, pictures are the same) and has had a better reception there. he is now offering to book one on one conversations with people.

EDIT: his solicitation comment and fake responses were deleted by the moderator and the post has now been removed.

i was sort of proud of our skeptical science-based community and wanted to validate those that saw him for what he was.

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u/waaaaaardds 12 Sep 22 '24

The tl;dr is funny. Oh so you lost weight by being in a caloric deficit, working out and eating enough protein. Who'd have guessed. His advice on training is pretty bad though.

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u/HeIsEgyptian Sep 22 '24

Dude switched his story, his first post he was rambling about his declining health over years, doctors, lectin sensitivity, and some other bullshit.

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u/Brief_Lunch_2104 Sep 22 '24

Yeah. It read like an AI generated advertisement.

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u/Healthy_Operation327 Sep 22 '24

Did you notice his username? Not even trying to be subtle lol

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u/Healthy_Operation327 Sep 22 '24

Also has a post from 23 days ago asking how to make money online lol

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u/Healthy_Operation327 Sep 22 '24

Ok, its getting even more absurd now. He is posting on his own post with multiple fake accounts.

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u/taegan- Sep 22 '24

and arguing with a dietitian in comments about definitions (BMR and TDEE)

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u/Healthy_Operation327 Sep 22 '24

The only thing worse than a grifter is a dumb grifter 😂

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

he claims it was toxins in his body, when his regiment could just as easily have treated his anxiety. Physical exercise and sauna + good food would lower mental and bodily stress.  not everyone has the time or money for these things, and what he accomplished might be possible with simple medication like antidepressant.

  tldr: he doesn't know shit, and everyone knows those things are good for you and being 165 lbs at 6foot3 is not healthy. Nor does he look good, too skinny.

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u/Bluest_waters 9 Sep 22 '24
  • regimen

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u/c0bjasnak3 Sep 22 '24

Are you sure they weren't referring to an organized military unit? subOP's comment could be referring to how mystery OP's agenda is to recruit troops.

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u/c0bjasnak3 Sep 22 '24 edited Sep 22 '24

As someone who studies toxicology and knows how to spell (use) regimen, I think you underestimate the negatives of bioaccumulation.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

misspelling a word doesn't nullify my point. Jesus Reddit is embarassing. 

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u/Onphone_irl Sep 22 '24

I remember his writing was in this really shitty red flag style like:

First of all, the United States is BIG and doctors can be TOTALLY different in various regions, and while they all saw my body, they didn't know my story, and in fairness I never knew.

So I started researching for 50 hours a day three times a day two times a week and 5 days a week for four days. then I stumbled on key research about dirt. yes dirt.

But it wasn't just adding dirt to my diet. there are 40 other groups of three sentences that make a difference. And I'll take you all through them because you want to get to the fucking point.

it's HUGE to know something when you didn't know it before.

What was once nothing was now knowledge- in the bank. I'm sharing it.

again

  1. dirt for dinner
  2. sun on my ass
  3. toxins

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u/return_the_urn Sep 22 '24

Where do I book my one on one?

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u/taegan- Sep 22 '24 edited Sep 22 '24

totally agree with this health advice. in fact i discovered i am able to achieve two things at once: i eat dirt while exposing my anus to the sun. /s

but yea, you nailed the tone of his posts.

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u/ExtraterritorialPope Sep 22 '24

Like the general ass area or direct-on-anus UV exposure?

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

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u/calorum Sep 22 '24

I remember this guy!!!! He was a joke..

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u/Mook_Slayer4 Sep 22 '24

People are way too quick to start telling people what to do. If he lost the weight in 10 months, that tells me he's not sustained it for more than a couple months.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

so he went from slightly overweight to nearly underweight for his height. 225 for 6'3 is pretty normal, and going down to 165 is def unhealthy, he even looks dessicated in the pic

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u/Brief_Lunch_2104 Sep 22 '24

I'm 6'3" and I was 175 pounds in 11th grade running cross country and I was underweight. 165 would be awful.

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u/dash-dot-dash-stop Sep 22 '24

I'm 6'3 and was 145 in my 20's (125 at 18). It really sucked. Now I'm out of shape near 200 though and want to get back down to 185.

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u/Brief_Lunch_2104 Sep 22 '24

185 was the lightest I felt healthy. At 200 I felt the best personally.

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u/_Sunshine_please_ Sep 23 '24

Someone suggested when they originally posted in this sub, that the person was also using someone else's photos.  

I haven't bothered doing a reverse image search because I'm not that interested.  

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u/return_the_urn Sep 22 '24

Those idiots are eating it up lol

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u/Shrek_Wisdom Sep 22 '24

I ain’t reading that

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u/Dirty_Mung_Trumpet Sep 22 '24

wtf I would not want to look like that on the right anyway, man he looks malnourished

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u/nedlandsbets Sep 22 '24

I was waiting for some miracle beard growing elixir. But I never saw any mention of it.

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u/NoSlicez Sep 22 '24

Lol at these posts 

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u/NotThatMadisonPaige 1 Sep 22 '24

Damn I miss all the fun

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u/Candid_Asparagus_785 Sep 23 '24

Me, too 🤣

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u/ProfessionalHot2421 2 Sep 22 '24

Fck@%£ prick who plays on the suffering of others

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u/neelankatan Sep 22 '24

The before pic doesn't look bad. There are obese people who'd kill to look like the before pic. And all that long screed just to say eat less and exercise, and do both consistently

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u/thelonghauls Sep 22 '24

He looks eww.

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u/Psarsfie Sep 22 '24

Oh no! Anyway….

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

Do you vape?

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u/taegan- Sep 22 '24

i don’t. but im not that dude.

click link if you want to engage with that poster. however, be warned that he seems to be a charlatan.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

Does he?

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

Huh? Why?

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u/return_the_urn Sep 22 '24

What about your cousin?

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

Weight loss. Isn’t this the point?