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The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Wellness Industry Is Making Us Sick
Alternative medicine has become a scrutiny-free wonderland for anything and everything
It also includes what’s been dubbed the $181 billion (US) global mental wellness economy, to capture money spent on sleep services and monitors, meditation and mindfulness resources, supplements for “brain health,” cannabis and psychedelics, and self-help delivered by gurus, coaches, organizations, and apps. It shows up on the Instagram reels of wellness influencers who post anti-vaccine propaganda and sell dietary supplements while promoting QAnon, a conspiracy theory that a behind-the-scenes cabal of Satan-worshipping child abusers in US government positions of power is running the world. As Beres told me, “You have wellness influencers offering supplements, yoga courses, retreats, breathing workshops, and so much more to alleviate depression, while some are explicitly claiming that people don’t need medications to treat their mental health condition and that they can try this untested herb instead.”
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