Roberto Olivardia, PhD

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Speaking of Psychology · Social media, looksmaxxing, and why men struggle with body image, with Roberto Olivardia, PhD · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

Like and, you know, a lot of them kind of are dragged in because maybe they got fired.

Maybe it's an ultimatum from a relationship.

And sometimes it's they came in.

come in because they've had an injury and they can't keep up the workout and they got very suicidal or very depressed and they realize this is you know a problem maybe they recently entered a bodybuilding competition and when you're around you know really around that culture um they realize oh wait a minute this is problematic but they yeah they feel they can't stop they don't know how to kind of get out of it and the other thing too is that this is a population that

doesn't sort of garner the kind of sympathy that you might see for, let's say, someone with classic anorexia nervosa.

You see them.

They're sick and they're emaciated.

Nobody thinks of a guy that might be 250 pounds and 7% body fat working out at the gym as someone that might be suffering and struggling.

And that's what's problematic is that – I mean we know just men in general –

And then particularly when it comes to men and body image and eating disorders are less likely to seek treatment.

But this population even more so because there's almost this notion, and there are studies that have actually looked at even how providers have biases around men with eating disorders, let alone men with muscle dysmorphia, to really see.

And I have to tell you, this is a population of men who –

are some of the most sensitive kind of kind individuals who sometimes just don't know or either feel a sense of shame that they're wired that way because that's what they've been told, or they are trying to gain a level of assertiveness, which is fine, but it's almost in this kind of overcorrected way that if I build this sort of body, I'm just going to command dominance and respect.

And that is absolutely being promoted and fed through social media in a way I've just never seen before.

So generally, it wouldn't be that much different in terms of – so you'd have a combination of psychoeducation in terms of what is –

a healthy body?

What is the expectations that some of my patients have around how much body fat they should have or how much muscle mass or what is normal working out is so skewed that what is healthy eating, these healthy sort of practices.

And when I say healthy, meaning even healthy for

athlete, let's say, or someone who might be an avid weightlifter, which, you know, I understand someone who, let's say, is a weightlifter is going to maybe eat differently than, you know, somebody who doesn't do that.

Then there's sort of looking at things like

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