GP Warns You're Probably Taking The 'Maxxing' Trend A Step Too Far

“It turns sensible health advice into a competition,” said Dr Ahmed El Muntasar.

Parents editor at HuffPost UK

A GP is urging people to jump off the ‘maxxing’ bandwagon that’s taken the internet by storm these past few years.

For those who aren’t chronically online, the trend was born from ‘looksmaxxing’ – which describes maximising your physical appearance – which took off via online manosphere forums in the 2010s. (One online streamer known as Clavicular claims to have “looksmaxxed” himself from the age of 14 through a combination of exercise, steroids, surgery and taking a hammer to his face.)

Fast forward to 2026 and we’ve seen interest in sleepmaxxing, fibremaxxing, tanmaxxing, jestermaxxing and even proteinmaxxing gather momentum on social media.

Per The Times, the ‘maxxing’ suffix describes “the act of maximising your time, effort and focus on a particular........

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