TREND: Reframing the First 1,000 Days More Pampering for those in Pampers There have been numerous studies on how touching—or lack of touching—can affect a baby’s development—with human touch having a special power for premature babies. Preterm birth is now the single most important cause of neonatal deaths (babies under 28 days) and the second leading cause of death in children under age five. Diverse…
Trend Exploration: The Wellness Kitchen From Environmental Health to Human Wellbeing—Global Wellness Summit Using the kitchen as an example, Veronica Schreibeis Smith, chair of the Global Wellness Institute’s Wellness Architecture Initiative and CEO and founder of Vera Iconica Kitchen, argues that architecture has the power to impact all areas of our lives. Why thoughtful kitchen design is good for your health—Wallpaper The desire to live…
TREND: The Wellness Kitchen Making Healthy Choices Easy and Visible The traditional kitchen invented in the 1950s is essentially a mausoleum to store “dead food.” Refrigerators and dark cupboards and pantries are designed to stockpile pre-packaged, processed, nonliving foods, hidden behind doors unseen and often forgotten for months or years. A serious disconnect between how more of us now eat (and want to eat) and…
Trend Exploration: Mushrooms Emerge from Underground 3 surprising things Dr. Andrew Weil is obsessed with—and thinks you should be too—Well+Good GWS keynote speaker Dr. Andrew Weil (in conversation with Well+Good) noted that people outside Asia are finally grasping the “phenomenal” health benefits of so many kinds of mushrooms for medicinal purposes: “With such a great range—mainly Asian mushrooms—that enhance immunity, protect us from cancer and…
TREND: Mushrooms Emerge from Underground Shrooms Bloom in Beauty Non-trippy mushrooms, which have played a starring role in traditional Eastern medicine for many millennia, are now getting overdue global recognition as equally “magic” functional foods—and beauty aisles are experiencing a great mushroom invasion. They’ve long been a key component in Asian beauty products, and now mushrooms are hitting global skincare, cosmetic and haircare lines for…
Trend Exploration: Wellness Meets Happiness Wellness in the Age of Technology —Global Wellness Summit Jeremy McCarthy, group director of Spa & Wellness, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, told the Summit audience in his keynote titled “Wellness in the Age of Technology” that not all technology, of course, is bad—the real problem is that it is so good. But McCarthy points out that “…(technology) is (still) the…
TREND: Wellness Meets Happiness Traveling Off-the-Grid for Happiness Smartphones/screens have shackled people to bad news, social media, and work every waking minute, decimating work-life balance; sleep; and any true peace, human connection or contemplation (as well as destroying vacations). It’s creating new desires to leave the shrieking world behind. So, the biggest trend in wellness travel is destinations that are off-the-grid or deep in nature…
Trend Exploration: A New Feminist Wellness Femtech Innovation —J Walter Thompson Intelligence J. Walter Thompson Intelligence explores the innovative women-led companies that are leading a revolution in the health tech industry, reporting that the Femtech industry could be worth $50 billion in the next seven years. Read More. How Technology is Revolutionizing Women’s Health —Vogue There has been a surge of digital offerings and apps…
TREND: A New Feminist Wellness The Femtech Revolution One of the most exciting recent wellness trends is women doctors, technologists, scientists, designers and entrepreneurs inventing a waterfall of smart, “I get it” products and tech solutions aimed at solving for women’s unique needs, bodies and sexuality. Even though we’ve had three waves of feminism, the fact is that women’s bodies and lives have remained woefully…
Trend Exploration: A New Era of Transformative Travel Millennials are Not Wellness Newbies Millennials (and even younger generations) will help drive these new directions in wellness travel. As Well+Good founders, Alexia Brue and Melisse Gelula, argued in their Summit keynote, millennials are radically disrupting the category. Watch More. In Wellness, “Transformative” is the New “Experiential” When it comes to luxury and wellness travel, those overly…
