This is a great post - fully agree that we need a reality check on people like Huberman and others that provide misleading information.

I will push back oh so gently on the idea that activities like movement, sleep, mindfulness and being in nature belong to the wellness warriors - which speaks to Tommy’s point of how the messages pushed by those like Huberman are often built on cherry picked science that eliminate nuance.

The reality is, we do have an enormous problem with overprescribing of many drugs, including antidepressants and opioids, and we know this is causing many people harm at a population level. There’s a growing body of evidence that multimodal non-pharmaceutical treatment can be as effective (or possibly more effective) than pharmacotherapy in certain contexts, including people with mild to moderate depression and management of chronic pain. This is starting to get formalised through social prescribing, in attempt (partly) to overcome the assumption many people have that non-pharmacological treatment is inferior to pharmacological. However, we also know that it’s not easy for everyone to access this kind of multimodal treatment, and that some people have higher level needs that would greatly benefit from medication.

In other words, nuance is critical when it comes to pharmaceutical and clinical interventions (ie health and wellbeing) - broad based statements never apply, it’s always about the right intervention for the right person .