{"id":662,"date":"2020-08-21T14:22:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T18:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailycupofwellness\/?p=662"},"modified":"2020-08-21T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T18:22:15","slug":"netflix-series-unwell-reveals-darkside-of-wellness-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailycupofwellness\/2020\/08\/netflix-series-unwell-reveals-darkside-of-wellness-industry.html","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Series ‘(Un)Well’ Reveals Darkside of Wellness Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wellness has become a global trend that has people taking their health into their own hands by experimenting with bizarre wellness and health regiments. Wellness means different things to different people, and the $4.5 trillion industry offers a vast universe of practices, products, and refashioned belief systems that people abide by in the name of healing and health.<\/p>\n

(Un)well<\/em> is a new six-part Netflix docuseries that uncovers the shadiness behind wellness, highlighting the good, the bad, what\u2019s proven to work, and what\u2019s proven to be dangerous within the wellness industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of conflicting information and misinformation out there, and there\u2019s not a lot of hard data and testing done,\u201d executive producer Erica Sachin told the Guardian on the motivation behind the series. \u201cWe felt like it was the perfect time to look at this industry that\u2019s blowing up and try and help to sort out some of the fact from the fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n

And perfect time it is. The wellness industry continues to boom, and the current global emergency has left lot of people eager to maintain their sense of wellness. (Un)well<\/em> walks viewers through popular trends in the wellness industry like essential oils, human breast milk, fasting, tantric sex, ayahuasca, and bee-sting therapy. The series also highlights businesses that have capitalized significantly off of these current trends and interviews health experts who debunk these trends and practices. Most of the scientists interviewed explain how easily people can be manipulated into investing in products and treatments that haven’t been scientifically proven to work-or be safe.<\/p>\n

Keeping their intent clear, (Un)well<\/em> doesn’t aim to persuade people to do or not to do anything. The main objective of the series is to provide information on wellness trends from the people who use them, profit off of them, and those opposed. The choice is left up to the viewer to decide what and how they will use that information.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s black and white,\u201d said Sachin. \u201cIt\u2019s much more complicated than that. That\u2019s why I think it\u2019s important to hear from the different sides, to be able to listen and take in the information and then synthesize it, each person for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Check out the trailer for (Un)Well<\/em> below.<\/p>\n