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She too remarks that this is a "natural" method because you're using your own blood. But for someone whose Goop line is filled with wellness-generating sex toys , it surprising that Paltrow has never learned the basics. The show also blithely undercuts its own featured experts. In an episode on the benefits of mushrooms, psychiatrist Will Siu talks about the importance of taking phycobilin in controlled doses under the right circumstances, suggesting that it can one day be taken in pill form, much like regular anti-anxiety medication.

In another, Wim Hof claims that your breathing method means you will not feel cold. I should note here the Wim Hof method is connected to multiple deaths. Wellness has become a billion-dollar industry in large part because women feel with reason that the medical community is not taking their health concerns seriously. At least some episodes have a grain of truth to them. One might laugh at Goop staffers eating mushrooms, but there are reputable academic researchers who are using certain psychedelics to help with PTSD.

If all six episodes had this kind of basis in reality, there would be something here, even if Paltrow comes off as a dilettante. Because while cleanses and breathing techniques and magic pills may be useless, wellness has become a billion-dollar industry in large part because women feel with reason that the medical community is not taking their health concerns seriously.

Sadly, as the show progresses, things become unmoored from reality until, in the worst episode of them all, we are asked to believe that communicating with the dead is possible. Gwyneth first mentioned her experiences with apitherapy, or "bee venom therapy," in a interview with The New York Times before she went on to sing its praises in an article on the Goop site.

While she claimed that being stung by bees helped her "completely" eliminate an old injury, most of the reported benefits of apitherapy have been anecdotal, according to the BBC. One woman even died in after two years of regularly undergoing the procedure. Back in , gynecologists were quick to counter a Goop article's claims that vaginal steaming procedures — a. Pittsburgh ob-gyn Draion Burch, MD, told LiveScience that there's no scientific evidence backing vaginal steaming as a cleaning procedure.

Plus, steaming comes with a risk of second-degree burns. Now this grand Goop claim was just downright bizarre: In , the lifestyle brand published an article promoting pricey "healing stickers" that were purportedly made from the same "conductive carbon material" NASA uses to make spacesuits. You might actually be able to hurt water's feelings, if Gwyneth is to believed.

In a May edition of her Goop newsletter, the star wrote to readers about Japenese scientist Dr. Masura Emoto's studies on how "negativity changes the structure of water.

Once upon a time back in , Gwyneth released a sex-themed edition of her Goop newsletter in which she recommended a mix of "not-so-basic sex toys. Sure, Goop might be known for its unrealistic price points , but this particular recommendation seemed to come with an even more ridiculous price tag than usual. Sure, this recent controversy might be more harmless than Goop scandals past — but that didn't stop Goop's "This Smells Like My Vagina" candle from going viral when it first landed on the lifestyle brand's site.

So, I guess it worked? Some upset Netflix customers announced that they had cancelled their subscriptions. Medical disinformation can have serious consequences, and it can spread quickly online. P altrow , who won an Academy Award for her performance in the film Shakespeare in Love , started Goop in Today, Goop publishes content on a popular website, hosts pricey wellness summits , and has launched pop-up stores in major cities.

You Can Drink That! At times, these claims have gotten the company into trouble. These kinds of claims — and prices — have invited skepticism, anger, and outright mockery from many critics.

Sometimes, though, it can seem as if the backlash simply fuels the Goop brand. Indeed, the cycle may sound familiar to observers of the 21st century digital media landscape: a celebrity in this case, Paltrow makes a statement. In interviews and on social media, experts clamour to explain why that statement is misleading, false, or dangerous. Instead of apologising, the celebrity rebukes the critics and doubles down on the claim — and in return receives a publicity boost, as well the aura of edginess that comes from controversy.