I’m a physician and I’m against wellness. Let me explain. Wellness is the new health mantra that has much more to do with marketing than with evidence-based medicine. Wellness institutions and practitioners are omnipresent promising benefits that are often untested or rejected scientifically. Hospitals that years ago would have shunned new age healing arts, now offer yoga, meditation, Reiki and massotherapy. Do they do so because they have had a Damascus Road experience and now believe that these techniques are effective? Guess again. Ahead of His Wellness Time? 100 Years Ago Metchnikoff Suggests Probiotics Wellness is no longer restricted to medical campuses, costly weekend retreats for emotional and physical catharses and ubiquitous yoga storefronts. Wellness is now championed by corporate America. Business leaders argue that keeping employees well is not only a demonstration of good corporate citizenship, but is also good business. Healthy employees, the
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