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"The wellness industry has exploded into superfoods, detoxes, and celebrity healers selling magic crystals, and the press and the public have gobbled it all up in a shitshow of capitalism and pseudoscience. So are any wellness products worth your money, and is any of the advice being shilled by its gurus going to make you healthier? Evidence says… no."
"How, then, does a cleanse, even one made with organic fruits and vegetables, detox your system of chemicals? Simple. It doesn’t."
“studies have shown that fasts and extremely low-calorie diets invariably lower the body's basal metabolic rate as it struggles to conserve energy.” - This one is personal to me. Because of my anorexia, I have an extremely low metabolism. This means that, now that I'm aging, I'm putting on weight as one does with age, but I can't diet to lose the weight because any drop in calories sends my metabolism into "starvation mode" where it starts hording energy deposits (like fat). I would have to *literally* starve before I would see any weight loss from caloric reduction.
"Health is all the stuff that you know you should do. Wellness is all the peripheral shit that someone marketed to you because it sounded almost like health. It’s modern-day snake oil, and today it either comes from extremely well-off celebrities who look healthy under 18 layers of makeup, internet charlatans who probably know they’re full of shit, and people who might not know there’s no science to back them up, but they do see your open wallet and know when business is good."
"How, then, does a cleanse, even one made with organic fruits and vegetables, detox your system of chemicals? Simple. It doesn’t."
“studies have shown that fasts and extremely low-calorie diets invariably lower the body's basal metabolic rate as it struggles to conserve energy.” - This one is personal to me. Because of my anorexia, I have an extremely low metabolism. This means that, now that I'm aging, I'm putting on weight as one does with age, but I can't diet to lose the weight because any drop in calories sends my metabolism into "starvation mode" where it starts hording energy deposits (like fat). I would have to *literally* starve before I would see any weight loss from caloric reduction.
"Health is all the stuff that you know you should do. Wellness is all the peripheral shit that someone marketed to you because it sounded almost like health. It’s modern-day snake oil, and today it either comes from extremely well-off celebrities who look healthy under 18 layers of makeup, internet charlatans who probably know they’re full of shit, and people who might not know there’s no science to back them up, but they do see your open wallet and know when business is good."
