Trend: Wellness Retreats Finally Take a Human Approach to Men The wellness world has reinforced clichéd views of masculinity: all the warrior-like fitness challenges and extreme biohacks. But a shift is underway, and a key example is new wellness retreats that focus on men’s social and emotional wellbeing. There’s a huge opportunity for the wellness industry if it embraces a more nuanced view of masculinity.…
Trend: Postpartum Retreats Are Really Taking Off Week of March 20th, 2024 Luxury Postnatal Retreats Draw Affluent Parents Around the US–Bloomberg, March 11, 2024 A great in-depth overview of why and how more postpartum retreat centers are opening across the US, capitalizing on the profound dearth of postnatal support services in the country—while their high prices also highlight a gap in access. The retreats report…
Trend: Postpartum Retreats Are Really Taking Off If Asia has long had a tradition of destinations that provide rest, recovery and wellness for moms right after birth, now far more postpartum retreats are opening westward—from the US to Dubai Following childbirth, new moms, particularly outside Asia, find themselves in a care “desert.” They’re quickly kicked out of the hospital, and all attention is focused on…
Trend: A Wellness Check for Weight Loss Drugs in 2024 Week of Feb 21st, 2024 The Race Is on to Stop Ozempic Muscle Loss–The New York Times, February 8, 2024 A great overview of how fitness brands, nutrition startups, and drugmakers all want to solve a common issue with weight loss drugs: significant muscle loss that can happen. Luxury gyms are offering strength-training programs specifically marketed…
Trend: A Wellness Check for Weight Loss Drugs in 2024 The arrival of the “Ozempics” shook up the weight-loss-focused wellness world, which is now beginning to figure out its future role. While some businesses started prescribing the new drugs, more companies are now creating companion fitness and nutrition programs to combat issues caused by their use. But the long future is integrative drug + wellness…
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Trend: It’s All Ozempic, But Research on Transforming White Fat to Brown for Weight Loss Sees Momentum Week of Oct 11th, 2023 UCLA discovers weight loss game-changer: stimulating brown fat to fight obesity–SciTechDaily NIH-funded research out of UCLA this week is the first to identify the nerve pathways to brown adipose tissue (BAT) and to provide examples of how manipulating it can change BAT activity.…
Trend: It’s All Ozempic, But Research on Transforming White Fat to Brown for Weight Loss Sees Momentum When Dr. Michael Roizen, chief wellness officer emeritus at Cleveland Clinic, wrote our 2023 trend “The Skinny on Brown Fat and Eliminating Obesity” back in early 2023, even using the term “weight loss” felt a little verboten, after the hard-won body positivity progress achieved in the last few…
Trend: Lo-Fi Longevity Week of Sept 13th 2023 Secrets to longevity can be taught, and “conservative cities have been better” at adopting them–Salon, September 8, 2023 Dan Buettner speaks to Salon about the many lessons learned from Blue Zones, and how, with his new Netflix docuseries, he wanted to avoid “the pop-y quick fix, the hyperbole that most longevity or anti-aging is surrounded with.” He…
Trend: Lo-Fi Longevity We’ve been bombarded in 2023 with high-tech and medical longevity solutions and products, but low-key longevity is again having a moment. It’s in part spurred by Netflix’s new series on Blue Zones communities that make healthy choices the “mindless” ones, and by countries like Singapore doing some modern engineering of Blue Zones principles, because we can’t all be Sardinian farmers. Expensive or…
