Dr. Esther Choo: People like Gwyneth Paltrow experiment in a bubble of abundance and safety, one inaccessible to the vast majority of people she reaches.
But Covid has further lowered my tolerance for people with endless means who take potential risks with their health and present X or Y new treatments with only wide-eyed marvel over their purported benefit for any host of maladies. They rarely mention side effects or the fact they have the financial wherewithal and privileged access to offset any harms. People like Paltrow don’t have to choose between a voluminous menu of woo-woo du jour and traditional preventive or medical care.
The line between traditional and “complementary” health care is not as black and white as one might think. Within the National Institutes of Health is a 25-year-olddedicated to studying treatments that don’t fit within conventional medicine. Another institute, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, funds my current research examining health modalities such as massage and acupuncture.
But medical science is bound by rules and integrity in the way that speculative wellness isn’t. We can’t, as Paltrow does in the podcast, state that only feedback given with love and kindness will be listened to. All scientists have yearned for the freedom to ignore comments in peer reviews that wounded their feelings or to dismiss harsh criticisms as problems with the reviewers and not their work.
“Tried stuff, feels right” is a lucrative formula but not a reliable or, ultimately, a caring one. It takes more to be truly about wellness, no matter how big a chunk of the commercial wellness industry one occupies.Esther Choo, M.D. M.P.H. is an emergency medicine physician, health policy researcher and founding member of Equity Quotient, a company that advises organizations on building a culture of equity.
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