The four trillion dollar global wellness industry, which largely targets women, has run afoul of the FDA by promising claims they can't possibly deliver.

Because there is no legal definition for terms such as "clean" or "natural," those words can mean whatever companies want them to. We haven't been this obsessed with the word clean since they debuted the new sexy Mr. Clean. Damn. We're gonna need TWO mops when we see that man.

Sadly, it makes sense that women would be open to alternative wellness. Women face higher chances of misdiagnoses, have been left out of medical research, and frequently report that doctors take their pain less seriously.

The marginalization of women in medicine has made it easier for a lot of us to believe in conspiracy theories like bras causing breast cancer, or that putting a garlic clove in your vagina will stop yeast infections. It won't. It will just stop vampires from going to 3rd base.

Mistrust in science in general is the reason so many people believe masks cause coronavirus and nearly 30% of Americans believe coronavirus was created in a lab. This is a TERRIBLE time to consciously uncouple from science.

Like most parts of society, the medical community has a lot of work to do when it comes to serving people who are not white men. But it is NOT okay for companies to take advantage of people looking for help.