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The dark side of wellness: behind a Netflix series on a murky industry – The Guardian
Do trends such as essential oils and fasting live up to their promises? Netflix’s (Un)well searches for answers with believers, skeptics and scientists
Wellness, like its signature vague branding, has a loose, unfixed meaning. It can describe the pursuit of greater stability. It can mean a $4.2tn, high-growth industry of products and services from goat yoga to health boutiques to Gwyneth Paltrows Goop jade vaginal eggs. It can indicate a never-ending burden for women the rebranding of having it all for 2010s consumer feminism. The gauzy, overused umbrella of wellness now encompasses a vast universe of practices, products and refashioned belief …
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