"Self-optimization becomes a form of piety: privatized labor of personal responsibility as public good. [...] This portends a condition in which health is indistinguishable from productivity."

"Obsessive self-care is the flipside of self-destruction: Both can provide the illusion of control over life’s injustices and unpredictable pains, a sense of agency — as if we always get what we choose and what we deserve."

http://reallifemag.com/issue-self-optimization/