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In Defense of Exhaustion

Why I’m burned out on biohacking.
Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images).
Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images).

When the wellness influencer Rhonda Patrick showed up on my X feed touting the virtues of creatine, I felt very tired. 

This was no coincidence. I am the mother of two girls, ages 4 years and 6 months. The baby was teething and waking up wailing every two hours each night. The preschooler was being a preschooler, asking more questions in a day than I wanted to answer in a year.

Hannah Rowan is managing editor of Modern Age and a fellow in the Robert Novak Journalism Program through The Fund for American Studies. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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