Kind of funny how capitalism will take actually well documented practices like intermittent fasting, intermittent sleeping, &/or the Mediterranean diet, which when tied to social rituals & moderation, work amazingly well & then renders them pathological

In their ‘organic’ form, they’re usually tied together in a bundle with other things as well as with large scale social rituals & practices, certain general lifeways, and to intrinsically limiting moderators that prevent them from being used excessively or piecemeal

When tied to periodic social rituals & festivals, combined with daily rituals of sleeping, siesta & rest, and to strong family ties & physical activity, the Mediterranean diet & intermittent fasting are reliably tied to health, happiness, long life, and so on.

But in modernity, capitalism & the state, all of that stuff is consider superfluous & so the individual elements are isolated, tied to metrics, apps & fads, and become these pathological self destructive forms of self harm. See fitness culture for another example.