{"id":20349,"date":"2025-01-17T21:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T22:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20349"},"modified":"2025-01-17T22:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T22:29:20","slug":"tiktok-changed-how-we-talk-about-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20349","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Changed How We Talk About Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has turned doctors into stars, put taboo subjects on main and given all of us a place to explore our well-being.<\/p>\n

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Some of the posts are raw. Some are insightful, others wildly elaborate. Some are just plain wrong.<\/p>\n

TikTok, which may soon be banned<\/a> in the United States, has changed American culture in many ways. But its impact on how we talk about health stands out. In tens of millions of videos, users have opened up about their health and how they take care of themselves in big and small ways. They have touted \u201cOatzempic\u201d for weight loss<\/a> and extolled the (supposed) benefits of beef tallow face masks<\/a>. They have shared their abortion stories<\/a> and brought viewers inside the reality of living with terminal illnesses<\/a>. And sometimes they have shared health advice so off-base that doctors and therapists stepped in to correct the record.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone that had a camera and a personality could get their message out,\u201d said Aric Prather, a sleep psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco. More than 10 million videos are tagged #health on the app, and millions more are posted under related hashtags like #selfcare.<\/p>\n

TikTok wasn\u2019t the only platform to democratize information online. But there is something special about the way its algorithm brings people together to talk about deeply personal topics, and keeps the conversation going as more and more users join in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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