Bitcoin Twitter Is Buzzing Central Planning when it Comes to Health
Something strange is happening on Bitcoin Twitter. Influencers you respect are making shorts about peptides. Thought leaders are jumping on the supplement bandwagon. And nobody seems to be asking the obvious question.
Is this actually Bitcoin?
Or is it the exact opposite?
I’ve watched Robert Breedlove post about peptides. I’ve seen Bram Kanstein join the trend. Let me be crystal clear—I love both your podcasts. You are important voices in this space. This isn’t an attack. This is an invitation to look deeper.
Because here’s the uncomfortable truth. What you’re witnessing isn’t optimization. It isn’t biohacking. It’s central planning applied to the human body. And it’s about as fiat as calling for minimum wage laws, UBI, or drawing climate models.
Austrian Economics Teaches Us Something Critical About Complexity
One of the most convincing reasons Austrian economists use praxeology is impossible to ignore. You cannot centrally plan or measure complex systems.
The inputs are too numerous. Change one variable, and you’ll never know if your results came from that change or from one of thousands of other inputs shifting simultaneously.
The economy works this way. The climate works this way. And your body—the most complex system you’ll ever own—works exactly the same way.
So ask yourself this. When Bitcoiners start micromanaging their health with concentrated creatine, protein powders, artificially synthesized hormones and peptides, what are they actually doing?
They’re central planning their biology.
They’re taking the same intellectual error that causes inflation, price controls, and monetary debasement—and applying it to their own mitochondria.
The Unknown Unknowns Will Destroy You
Let’s talk about what we actually know. Science has identified 40 to 50 essential nutrients. But here’s a thought experiment that should terrify anyone dosing themselves with isolated compounds.
What if we’ve only identified one percent? What if there are four to five thousand essential nutrients we haven’t discovered yet? How many interactions between those nutrients remain invisible to us?
We already have glimpses of this complexity. Vitamin D requires magnesium and K2 to function properly. Potassium depletes sodium and vice versa. Zinc and copper exist in a delicate balance. And these are just some known relationships.
We don’t even understand how light and frequencies interact with nutrition. We’re only beginning to grasp how crucial these factors might be.
We don’t know what we don’t know.
This is precisely why we shouldn’t “trust the science” and attempt to centrally plan complex systems. The principle of the seen and the unseen—famously described by Henry Hazlitt when analyzing economic policy—applies to your health with brutal precision.
You see the bicep growth. You see the weight loss. You see the short-term gains.
But what about the unseen? The mitochondrial disruption. The hormone cascades thrown out of balance. The nutritional synergies destroyed by megadosing single compounds.
Could it be that the unseen imbalances always create a net negative that exceeds the visible benefits?
From first principles, the knowledge that you can’t centrally plan complex systems, this seems almost certain.
The Disgusting Reality Behind Supplements
But wait. It gets worse.
You can’t trust supplements. Full stop. Do some research into chemical B vitamins versus natural ones. The sources for synthetic versions are genuinely disgusting. Some do more harm than good.
I learned this firsthand while searching for a natural B complex in a Southeast Asian country. I visited five or six pharmacies before finding a single natural option. The rest? Chemical sludge dressed up in pretty packaging.
Here’s who manufactures the majority of your supplements. Big Pharma. Big Food. The same fiat corporations Bitcoiners correctly distrust with their money now have their hands in the supplement jar you’re scooping from. What happened to ‘don’t trust, verify’?
Ask yourself. Would your money be better spent on a healthy steak from your local farmer?
The Deuterium Problem Nobody Talks About
Most supplements contain massive amounts of deuterium. Do you know what deuterium is?
Well, it’s the Ethereum of nutrition.
It destroys your body at the base layer by disrupting mitochondrial function. This alone could make the downside of supplementation exceed any potential upside. You’re literally degrading your cellular energy production for marginal gains you could achieve through proper nutrition.
Steroids and Peptides are even Worse
Here’s what I keep hearing about steroids and peptides. Doses are inconsistent. Contamination is rampant. You’re injecting substances into your body with zero verification of purity or potency.
But steroids are even more insidious.
They diminish your body’s natural testosterone production. You become dependent on an external compound for basic biological function. Stop taking it, and you don’t just return to baseline. You feminize.
Which based man wants that?!?!
The Time Preference Question That Ends The Debate
Let’s apply one final Bitcoin principle.
Is taking long-term risks for short-term aesthetic gains low time preference or high time preference?
You know the answer.
Bitcoiners pride themselves on low time preference thinking. On delayed gratification. On building wealth that lasts generations rather than chasing overnight gains.
Yet here we are. Compromising hormonal health for a beach season. Destroying metabolic flexibility for temporary vascularity. Trading decades of wellbeing for months of looking good on camera.
This is high time preference behavior masquerading as optimization.
Sun, Steak, and Steel
So what’s the alternative?
I really believe that sun, steak, and steel is all a based Bitcoiner needs. The rest of this central planning with creatine, peptides, and steroids is just the fiat layer applied to your biology.
Your ancestors built civilizations without peptide stacks. They didn’t need synthetic hormones to lift heavy rocks and hunt dangerous animals. They followed evolutionary patterns embedded in millions of years of adaptation.
Modernity has complicated what should be simple.
You understand monetary complexity because you study Bitcoin. Apply that same intellectual rigor to your health. Recognize that complex systems cannot be micromanaged. Trust the emergent order of natural biology over the central planning of pharmaceutical enhancement.
The strongest signal in any market is often the absence of manipulation. The same is true of your body.
Stop the fiat behavior. Return to sound biological money.
Your future self will thank you.