The Natural Lie

How the Fitness Influencer Economy Sells Fake Physiques and Teaches Young Men to Misread Reality

The physiques are pharmaceutical and the advice is fiction. An investigation into the fitness influencer economy, and what it is teaching a generation of young men to misread.

By Lucas Ashford

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