Scrutiny of Wellness Products & Approaches Intensifies in Coronavirus Age

TREND: IN WELLNESS WE TRUST People increasingly want to separate the wellness wheat from the chaff, and more resources and platforms will help them do it. By Richard Panek “Nonsense[1].” “A false antidote[2].” “Snake oil[3].” Google “wellness,” and these pejoratives might be among the first adjectives you’ll find. And not without reason. Years of baseless claims about pseudo-scientific products have blurred the distinctions between legitimate…

Wellness Watchdogs on Prowl in Age of COVID-19

Summit Trend in the News— In Wellness We Trust: The Science Behind the Industry Integrative Considerations during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Explore Given the high interest in integrative strategies to augment public health measures to prevent COVID-19 infection, a review of medical studies from the University of Arizona analyzes some science-backed wellness strategies to consider. The researchers state strongly up front that there are no…