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Global Wellness News™ | September 2nd, 2025

In Austria, Government Health Care Can Look a Bit Like a Spa

A few weeks of hikes and saunas in wine country? Sometimes, that’s literally just what the doctor ordered.
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Can design make you healthier?

Our built environment can have a direct impact on physical and mental wellbeing. How are architects creating spaces that support health and humanity?

Sweating and Storytelling in a Williamsburg Sauna

Aufguss: a world championship for twirling a really hot towel, Leslie Jamison writes.

In protein-deficient India, McDonald’s, Bollywood and cricket fuel wellness craze

McDonald’s has joined India’s biggest dairy Amul, a slew of startups and a company backed by Bollywood superstar Ranveer Singh to unleash a marketing blitz with celebrity chefs and cricketers promoting protein as a daily nutrition need.

Gen Z Goes Off-Grid

The IRL counterculture is rising, ushering in a new era of human connection, featuring phone-free hangouts, device-free getaways, and more.

Debut secures $20 million to enhance skin longevity ingredient research

The biotech beauty firm has raised investment to expand its AI-based ingredient discovery platform and scale its formulation business in the US and Asia

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