Wellness has a special fragrant wind that gusts through the bins of science and sends its dog ends and rubbish all over the place

This is a massively reedited and added to version of my 'stack two weeks ago. I went down a rabbit hole and came back gasping for air

Question pharma greed and over-prescribing. If you want, reject orthodox medicine in favour of herbs, carrots and magic. But the wholesale rejection of vaccines as ‘ideology’ and the increase bullying of scientists is dumb.

WELLNESS WIND, pretty………silly

Wellness is rather good at sweeping an arm to a staircase heading up towards the light and suggesting all you need is this tonic or that treatment or a reset on vegetable juices. When we have a medical condition we can sometimes spend a lot of time bumbling around in wellness world when probably it’s a doctor you need to see. I think I was this person for a while.

That slow descent into feeling a bit non-specifically shite and with no answer as to why definitely brought me to the door of wellness. I thought the reason was mild depression, menopause, drinking, I thought I had permanently damaged my brain with, “youthful antics”, I thought I had cancer, I thought I had a bad gut microbiome, I needed more vegetables, more sleep, more light, more cold showers, more supplements, and hey, some of that stuff was great. But it turned out what I needed was three months of antivirals…