An attempt to distill the scientific consensus on the major wellness claims in The Goop Lab
Photo: Netflix Each episode of The Goop Lab begins with a disclaimer: “The following series is designed to entertain and inform — not provide medical advice.” And to be sure, that warning fits its innocuous tenor. The Netflix show is more of a cheeky, let’s-try-this-out kind of affair than the transparently insidious jade egg sales pitch many feared.
Psilocybin therapy Photo: Netflix The Goop Lab starts on a fairly solid scientific note: The first episode deals with the healing potential of psychedelics like mushrooms and MDMA in treating conditions like depression, anxiety, and PTSD. There’s a modest amount of scientific study to support these conclusions. According to Psychology Today, psilocybin , has seen promising, though not dramatic, results in clinical trials.
At its core, the Wim Hof method seems like a repackaging of traditional yoga methods of deep breathing and meditation, combined with cold therapy, into a Western-friendly pseudo-spiritual experience that purports to battle stress and even fend off illness.
But the wildest trial comes when Paltrow undergoes a “vampire facial” — a trendy new skin-care treatment popularized by Kim Kardashian West that involves taking blood from your body, spinning it around in a centrifuge to separate the red blood cells from the platelets and plasma, then basically reinjecting the plasma into your face with a bunch of tiny needles.
Energy healing Photo: Netflix Maybe the most stealthily dangerous thing about The Goop Lab is that the six episodes are front-loaded with unconventional therapies that have at least been the subject of legitimate research — like cold therapy, meditation, and psychedelics — only to devolve into outright quackery in its last two entries.
As for the double-slit experiment, that’s a principle relating to the measurability of photon trajectory, and it has never been used in the context of healing or medical science. Scientific American points out that quantum mechanics is “one of the most challenging to comprehend and one about which a great deal of nonsense has been written.” In the case of Amaral’s work, that principle certainly seems to apply.
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