Decoding Looksmaxxing: The Crisis Consuming Young Men & The Real Path To Self-Worth

The Rich Roll Podcast · Feb 26, 2026 · 1h 5m

Bone smashing. Steroids. Crystal meth. 13-year-olds letting AI judge their faces. It's called looksmaxxing – and it presents as self-improvement.

Underneath, it's a deftly weaponized pipeline to nihilism, misogyny, and self-destruction, consuming millions of young men right now.

Adam Skolnick and I sit with all of it this week – what it is, why it's spreading, and what the real antidote looks like.

If you have a young man in your life – or you are one – sit with this.

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