Health professionals say social media often highlights dramatic “before-and-after” results while ignoring hidden complications like muscle loss, hair fall, hormonal disruption, missed menstrual cycles, and nutritional deficiencies, apart from constant fatigue and anxiety around food. “Crash diets, aggressive fasting windows, unmonitored fat burners – all of it circulates with the same confidence, the same before-and-afters, the same comment sections full of people saying it changed their life. The failures are quieter. They end up in clinics like mine,” she said.
