Empowering Health: Embracing Broscience for Better Well-Being

The way science should be done

You’ve probably heard the term “Broscience” and wondered what it means. Broscience is a field of science that originated with gym bros but has been proven true again and again over the last decade.

Before people freak out, let me just be clear that this isn’t exclusive to gym bros. Plenty of non-mainstream people follow a similar pathway.

The foundation of Broscience is far more scientific than the modern iteration of mainstream science. It’s not even close. Here are the steps of the scientific method, which is the foundation of scientific thinking, and has been for hundreds of years:

1. Make an observation.

2. Ask a question.

3. Form a hypothesis or testable explanation.

4. Make a prediction based on the hypothesis.

5. Test the prediction.

6. Iterate: use the results to make new hypotheses or predictions.

Mainstream science loosely follows these steps. However, most times they start with the answer and reason their way back to the problem. Let’s use obesity as an example. This is how modern science works, particularly from the point of view of Big Pharma:

1. Make an observation - people are overweight

2. Ask a question - can we make money on this?

3. Form a hypothesis or testable explanation - drugs can help this

4. Make a prediction based on the hypothesis - we can sell drugs to obese people

5. Test the prediction - yep, the drug is profitable

6. Iterate - that drug has side effects, let’s make a different one and sell it

This example is exaggerated but not actually far off. Most decisions made in medicine today come from monetary and government incentives. They don’t have anything to do with science.

Grab your copy of Renegade Health Magazine. You won’t regret it.

---

That’s where Broscience comes in.