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‘Food-as-Medicine’ Startups Draw Venture Capital Startups are creating diets tailored to patients’ medical needs, betting that specially-designed foods can work as powerful weapons against disease. Interest among venture capitalists in the medical potential of food has risen as the understanding of diet’s role in disease has grown. Read More from the Global Wellness News ™

Limbo Raises $6 Million For Its Digital Weight Loss Tools Limbo, a weight loss technology start-up, has raised $6 million with Shaquille O’Neal among its backers. The start-up describes itself as a digital weight loss and body transformation service that helps coach users in their weight loss efforts. It was founded by serial entrepreneur Pat Phelan, who founded Trustev and cosmetic beauty chain Sisu, and…

Beyond healthcare influencers, ‘all brands are in the wellness business now’ As consumers continue to seek out wellness products and services, influencers are outpacing brands in terms of delivering on expectations. A recent Ogilvy report found that 77% of consumers deem wellness to be ‘very’ or ‘extremely’ important to them. Read More from the Global Wellness News ™

Lululemon Hopes to Showcase Home Fitness Business With Membership Program The athleisure brand bought the interactive fitness company Mirror for $500 million in 2020, when at-home workouts were booming because of Covid lockdowns. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. Read More from the Global Wellness News ™

Four Seasons Is Getting Into the Yachting Game With a 679-Foot Floating Hotel Courtesy Four Seasons Four Seasons hopes to redefine luxury charter with its new “yacht,” a 679-foot vessel with a profile reminiscent of a contemporary superyacht, but with many more decks and a “funnel” at the top resembling the smoke stack of a 1930s ocean liner. Read More from the Global Wellness News…

Wellness clubs A wellness-centered third space opened in July in Los Angeles that is prioritizing high-design and an indulgent atmosphere. Heimat, a private fitness and lifestyle club, features a rooftop pool, a bootcamp studio, a Michelin-star restaurant, and a full-fledged spa in addition to its treadmills, yoga, spin and boxing class offerings. Read More from the Global Wellness News ™

Peloton will put bikes in every Hilton-owned hotel in the U.S. Peloton will put bikes in all 5,400 Hilton-owned hotels in the U.S., the company announced Monday. Read More from the Global Wellness News ™