Author Archives: Tiffany Prendergast

Tiffany Prendergast is a clinical assistant and research associate at the Norman Marcus Pain Institute in New York City, where her work focuses on muscle-generated pain in chronic pain conditions, including hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. She holds a Master of Science in Medical Sciences from Boston University, where her thesis examined overlooked soft tissue pathology in failed back surgery syndrome. Her research is driven by a commitment to patients whose pain is often dismissed or misdiagnosed, and to making chronic pain care more accessible and less stigmatized.
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Softmaxxing Skepticism: How Looksmaxxing Culture Recruits the Mainstream

Tiffany Prendergast October 2, 2026
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Sitting in a parked car, phone propped up on the dashboard, recording, he takes a bite of his Chipotle bowl between sentences about a metabolic drug meant to make him eat less. Almost three months into retatrutide, he’s not sure it’s worth it anymore. The drug is still locked in Phase III clinical trials, nowhere near FDA approval, meaning sellers have no legal standing to market it for human consumption (Eli Lilly and Company 2026). He tells his viewers that he briefly looked into the gray market.  (read more...)

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