(Jeanelle Ocampo/Daily Bruin staff)
So-called health specialists have established their influence across social media recently.
The result is a health and wellness realm flooded with constant misinformation.
Many women find themselves trapped between two unsupportive worlds: one of the misinformed wellness preachers of Instagram and the other of a dismissive medical environment.

“Green in the Blue and Gold” is a series created by Angelina Alkhouri, an Opinion columnist and a third-year human biology and society student. She will write about sustainability pitfalls at UCLA and the greater Los Angeles community, along with the consequences of choosing to ignore them.
This post was updated April 20 at 10:55 a.m.
Editor’s note: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the United States is available by calling or texting 988.
When learning to write an argumentative essay, students are introduced to the dreaded counterargument. Students are told they must state an argument they don’t believe in so that they can refute it in their next paragraph.
This post was updated April 16 at 8:05 p.m.
When I look at them, they are distant. All of my flaws, they lack. They somehow know everything about a campus that still feels so foreign to me.
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