Teh One Who Knocks
03-24-2017, 12:06 PM
By Emily Zanotti - Heat Street
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Gwyneth Paltrow is a menace to the modern woman. When she’s not persuading you that you should invest in sex toys that cost more than most people’s cars, she’s suggesting a deep steam clean for your ladyparts area, or recommending that you restore your chi and reclaim your internal balance with a jade egg you hold up there.
Now, along with her Goop lifestyle label, she’s moved into marketing products for ailments that don’t even exist.
For a mere $90, you can purchase one month’s supply of “Why Am I So Effing Tired?” a packet of vitamins that are “curated” to address your lack of motivation by correcting your “adrenal fatigue,” a widespread deficiency that Goop’s medical professionals say affects an “epidemic-level proportion of people.”
You might have “adrenal fatigue,” Gwyneth says, if you ever feel tired, moody, have difficulty sleeping, have no difficulty sleeping, have frequent colds, bad digestion, constipation, no constipation, irregular periods, or the sudden worsening of literally anything else that you think might be wrong with you.
Which means, of course, exactly everyone has “adrenal fatigue.” But no one’s ever been actually diagnosed with it because, according to Goop’s medical guru, Dr. Alejandro Junger, modern medicine is just too stubborn to admit it exists.
Medical professionals disagree. According to the American Endocrine Society and the Hormone Health Network, there is no medical test available to diagnose “adrenal fatigue,” and, in fact, no proof “adrenal fatigue” is even a real illness at all.
The National Institute of Health has a paper on its website titled, “Adrenal Fatigue Does Not Exist: A Systematic Review,” in case you want to read a study.
The Hormone Health Network’s official “fact sheet” on the subject warns people who’ve been told they may be suffering from “adrenal fatigue” to consider whether they’ve been conned— or, maybe, to stop reading Goop.
If you feel “tired, weak or depressed,” they suggest that instead of consulting Gwyneth Paltrow, you see a real medical or psychiatric professional.
Okay, they don’t say that in so many words, but come on. You’re probably as likely to cure your “adrenal fatigue” with Paltrow’s $90 per month vitamins as you are to “clear your energy field” with a lump of sage and a feather (also available from the Goop website for $195).
http://i.imgur.com/UPwePI8h.jpg
Gwyneth Paltrow is a menace to the modern woman. When she’s not persuading you that you should invest in sex toys that cost more than most people’s cars, she’s suggesting a deep steam clean for your ladyparts area, or recommending that you restore your chi and reclaim your internal balance with a jade egg you hold up there.
Now, along with her Goop lifestyle label, she’s moved into marketing products for ailments that don’t even exist.
For a mere $90, you can purchase one month’s supply of “Why Am I So Effing Tired?” a packet of vitamins that are “curated” to address your lack of motivation by correcting your “adrenal fatigue,” a widespread deficiency that Goop’s medical professionals say affects an “epidemic-level proportion of people.”
You might have “adrenal fatigue,” Gwyneth says, if you ever feel tired, moody, have difficulty sleeping, have no difficulty sleeping, have frequent colds, bad digestion, constipation, no constipation, irregular periods, or the sudden worsening of literally anything else that you think might be wrong with you.
Which means, of course, exactly everyone has “adrenal fatigue.” But no one’s ever been actually diagnosed with it because, according to Goop’s medical guru, Dr. Alejandro Junger, modern medicine is just too stubborn to admit it exists.
Medical professionals disagree. According to the American Endocrine Society and the Hormone Health Network, there is no medical test available to diagnose “adrenal fatigue,” and, in fact, no proof “adrenal fatigue” is even a real illness at all.
The National Institute of Health has a paper on its website titled, “Adrenal Fatigue Does Not Exist: A Systematic Review,” in case you want to read a study.
The Hormone Health Network’s official “fact sheet” on the subject warns people who’ve been told they may be suffering from “adrenal fatigue” to consider whether they’ve been conned— or, maybe, to stop reading Goop.
If you feel “tired, weak or depressed,” they suggest that instead of consulting Gwyneth Paltrow, you see a real medical or psychiatric professional.
Okay, they don’t say that in so many words, but come on. You’re probably as likely to cure your “adrenal fatigue” with Paltrow’s $90 per month vitamins as you are to “clear your energy field” with a lump of sage and a feather (also available from the Goop website for $195).