Gwyneth Paltrow claims she’s only doing a restrictive diet because she has long Covid

Last week, Gwyneth Paltrow did a podcast interview and the whole thing went viral for several reasons. One, Gwyneth was hooked up to an IV as she did the interview, and she extolled the virtues of being a constant IV-user and even bragged about being an “early adopter” of recreational IV use. In the pod interview, she also talked about her sad-sack diet, describing how she has bone broth for lunch most days and barely eats a Paleo diet for dinner. TikTokers ripped into her for being an Almond Mom and for pushing her disordered eating on everyone through her Goop empire. While Gwyneth has always been like this, it’s nice to see new generations get outraged at Gwyneth’s extreme diet-culture dressed up as “wellness.”

Well, a funny thing happened – after clips of the pod went viral, Gwyneth saw that she was once again facing a huge backlash for being too rich to swallow vitamins, and for making her vitamin deficiency everyone’s problem. So she addressed it on her social media, saying that the pod interview was actually done with her doctor and she was describing the specific diet she was on because she’s dealing with long Covid.

Gwyneth Paltrow blamed “very high levels of inflammation” and long COVID for her wellness tips that have since been dubbed a “starvation diet.”

“I have been working to really focus on foods that aren’t inflammatory, [and] it’s been working really well,” the actress said on her Instagram Story Friday. “This is based on my medical results and extensive testing I’ve done over time,” the 50-year-old added, noting that her daily diet wasn’t “meant to be advice for anyone else.”

Paltrow, who made headlines this week after describing her intermittent fasts, bone broth lunches and paleo dinners on the “Art of Being Well” podcast, said her habits have “been very powerful and positive” for her. The Oscar winner clarified that she doesn’t eat those routine foods “all day every day.”

Paltrow claimed to “eat far more than bone broth and vegetables,” saying, “I eat full meals. I also have days where I eat whatever I want, French fries or whatever.

“My baseline has been to try to eat healthy and try to eat foods that really calm the system down,” the “Shakespeare in Love” star continued.

[From Page Six]

She always does this, because she’s a liar. She’s either lying about her disordered eating, her crazy elimination diets, her “intermittent fasts” and her (horsesh-t) inflammation-reduction diets, OR she’s lying about eating French fries and real meals. I know what I think she’s lying about – in many ways, her Goop newsletter was a window into her starving, disordered soul, and my guess is that Gwyneth’s broken, nutrient-deficient brain doesn’t even realize how f–king crazy she sounds half the time. So her publicist is like “just tell them you eat French fries!”

Now, she’s talked about having long covid before, and I buy that she’s still dealing with that. I’m not a doctor, I have no idea if this restrictive diet actually “helps” the effects of long covid. What I do know is that Gwyneth’s answer to every medical malady is to starve herself.

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  1. The Old Chick says:

    She’s a liar all right. Plus she’s a narcissist. Ok well they go together. This is the person who claimed to be an ‘early adopter’ of YOGA! A thousands of years old practice! She also said she understood covid better than anyone because she was in a plague movie. She’s gross and narcissistic, entitled and had disordered eating (who needs cleanse when they don’t eat?)

    • Sue E Generis says:

      I may be wrong, but I seem to remember her saying she brought yoga to the mainstream vs. being an early adopter (which is probably true). Wasn’t her point that she was personally responsible for the popularity of yoga in the US?

      I’m agreeing with you btw, but she’s just much worse than you’re conveying.

      • Gah says:

        She told a friend of a friend who was a receptionist at an NYC yoga studio “you have a job because of me!”

        This was sometime between 2014 and 2020.

        So yeah Gwyneth the yoga Jesus

    • Blithe says:

      My Black American Mom was doing yoga classes before Gwyneth was even born. I suspect, though, that in her reach for popularity, Miss Gwyneth is only focusing on people that she perceives as being very much like herself. ( Just deleted a few true —but cruel —adjectives here.)

    • theotherviv says:

      She is an early adopter alright. Early adopter of BS and promoting expensive unnecessary things.

      • Agreatreckoning says:

        That about sums her up. One of the best anti-inflammatory diets is the Mediterranean Diet. Healthy fats and antioxidants. But, I guess, since it’s not new and edgy, it’s not Gwyneth’s thing. Too many calories for her?

  2. Naomi says:

    Gwyneth is like Lucille Bluth (rich, entitled, disordered eating, Almond Mom) except Lucille Bluth is funny.

    • Anna22222 says:

      Hah I’m going to remember this comment every time that emaciated sht stirrer rears her sun damaged head. Thank you.

  3. PrincessOfWaffles says:

    “Early adopter” choice of words was her, seeing 2 steps ahead of the game to be able to claim any IV trend in the future as hers because she’s so avant-garde. Please, the lady has no idea she sounds completely crazy. Im happy she’s getting backlash and hope the people calling her our are the younger generations being SMART. I observe her face movements as she talks and it’s like there’s something abnormally slow and skeletal about it. Please stop “feeding” this bs to the world Gwyn

    • Brassy Rebel says:

      Recreational IV use? I had no idea this was a thing. Gwyneth Paltrow needs more help than the psychiatric profession is capable of providing I fear. The inflammation has reached her brain.

      • kirk says:

        I never knew IV use was a thing until I read previous post on her. Then happened to see 2 spas on the way home touting their IV wellness stuff. I’d be too freaked out by needles to do it. Hoping everyone gets some relief from long COVID and more research ➡️ better treatments.

      • B says:

        Optional IV bags +/- a vitamin are a thing, partially because ER people are sick of being poorly reimbursed plus verbally abused all day long and there are limited alternative environments for them to use their skill set.

      • KFG says:

        She looks terrible. Who wants to look like a skeleton and have that hay for hair? Eww. Eat real food!

    • AnnaKist says:

      Wow. What a nutter. Our Down Under Gwyneth Paltrow is Pete Evans, a dingbat disgraced chef. He had a lucrative media career as a TV chef, judge on My Kitchen Rules for 10 years, cookbook author, public speaker… And then had a spiritual meeting with Paltrow, or
      vice ver . Several years ago, he was extolling the benefits of bone broth, to the point that he recommended new mothers, unless they were breastfeeding, should give their babies bone broth instead of milk formula. He copped a bit of flack for that but kept going.. He partnered up with some mother’s group to write a cookbook with recipes for babies and toddlers, including the bone broth, but also some other waca-doodle recipes. It might have remained just another cookbook, except for his commentary in the book and his publicity as the book was about to be released. However, the publisher got cold feet with all the bad
      publicity surrounding him and pulled the plug. I think they ended up self publishing. Did this wake up to himself? No, because Pete is a man of his convictions.

      His detractors pointed out that, for someone so engrossed in, and pushing this whole “natural” life he was living and pushing others to lead, he did not seem averse to the Botox, he and his wife, were obviously using as well as her breast implants. That generated several more stories about how they had stopped using Botox and she had had her breast implants removed.. then came Covid..

      He was releasing so much
      information, and utter garbage about the virus. By now he was really skating on thin ice.. But he still wasn’t done. He was the poster boy for the anti-vaxers. The ridiculous, misinformed, uninformed and downright dangerous information he was spreading about the vaccines, put the last nail in his coffin. Overnight he lost his TV contract. In the next 48 hours more than 40 of his sponsors dropped him like a flaming bag full of doggy Doo Doo. No idea what he is doing now but since he has a trade, he could walk in to any restaurant and become the chef .

      Whenever I read about him, it made methink of Gwyneth Paltrow. Now that I’m reading about Gwyneth Paltrow and thinking about him. It would be hilarious if he had contacted her with the viewof doing something together, since they both ring same stupid bell of faux-
      science garbage, and she told him to naff off!

      • Kath says:

        Ah, Pete Evans. Like a lot of “wellness” gurus, he’s transversed the cycle from:
        activated almonds –> anti-vaxxer –> COVID denial –> conspiracy theories –> the “state” is out to get you –> David Icke –> to full-blown right-wing lunatic.

        I speak from personal knowledge, as my brother has also undertaken this delightful journey.

  4. Anners says:

    “Long COVID” might explain her disordered eating for the past 3 years, but I remember this gal from the 90s. I think she was expecting praise for her self-discipline and was surprised that the world has moved on and improved a bit. While we still glorify thinness as the shining pinnacle of health, we’re smart enough to know that telling people to get an ED to get there is wrong.

    Also, she’s been battling inflammation for over a decade now – how inflamed can one body be? Perhaps her methods aren’t working? /s

    • JustBitchy says:

      Is she just going by CA125 for inflammation? Other basic metabolic panel results? Any ANA tests – for an auto immune. I suffer from an AI disease and diet is not the treatment. Eating a well balanced diet is a tremendous help overall with keeping weight and energy at good levels. Starving oneself is not good – her body is hangry!

    • Arpeggi says:

      You don’t understand! She’s so avant-garde, she was a long-covid early adopter and got in in 1999!
      I’d say she’s full of crap but given her daily colon cleanses, the issue is probably the opposite

    • Lucy2 says:

      Exactly, she’s been like this for decades.

  5. ML says:

    How disgusting! After getting justifiable backlash, GP decides to play the sympathy card by blaming her bs lifestyle choices on long covid?! Gmafb.

    • Snappyfish says:

      So what’s been her excuse over the last 2 decades decades? SARS? Ebola? Hang nail?

  6. ThatsNotOkay says:

    Yeah, she’s a liar and the only thing she thinks she’s got going for her is her anorexia. It’s what she was praised for twenty years ago–how lithe and slim she was. Not her acting, not her versatility. Not even smarts. Her looks. So she’s peddling the unattainable in order to maintain her “edge” and status over others. She thinks people should aspire to be and look like her. Well, I hate to give credit to Meghan McCain, but on this one thing she’s right: Gwyneth looks haggard because her skin is dripping off her bones because her body is starving. She must not know she is dying a slow death. Her heart might give out.

    Anyway, long COVID is a b-i-t-c-h, but these are not the cures. She can start by adding turmeric, cumin, and maybe some paprika to her FOOD. Some cinnamon. She can ingest anti-inflammatory foods by actually EATING them and SEASONING her FOOD with them. But she doesn’t season and she doesn’t eat. She just lies to peddle snakeskin oil. Glad her being called out for this schtick is finally schticking this time.

    • nisa says:

      Okay, agree. The reality is that she’s been doing this forever and the reason she is being called out now is because her obvious ED has affected her appearance so dramatically. The word that came to my mind was brittle – hair, skin, (I assume) bones… like she could snap in two, just completely unhealthy. I’m glad the younger generation isn’t buying what she’s selling. Too much to hope this is the beginning of the end?

      Also, commenters on an earlier post were saying she would blame some kind of health issue lol. So predictable. Other great comments on why on earth would anyone care what this woman’s diet is? I’m her age and she isn’t aspirational. Tell me what Halle Berry eats!

      • Mtl.Ex.Pat says:

        @thatsnotokay – 💯 to everything you said. If her dad hadn’t been best buds with Steven Spielberg and her mom wasn’t an actress she’d be just another plain blond skinny girl. She’s so full of nonsense and entitlement she makes my skin crawl. And yeah, anti-inflammatory foods & spices/herbs need to be actually EATEN.
        @nisa – Re your “tell me what Halle Berry eats” comment – I saw a great meme of Salma Hayek. Two side by side photos – one of her dressed casually eating a soft taco and the other of her glammed up and looking voluptuous and fabulous. The comment was “you are what you eat – be Salma Hayek – eat the taco!”

      • nisa says:

        Mtl.Ex.Pat, your comment made me smile and now I want a taco!

    • Totorochan says:

      I dunno, I think she actually looks fairly healthy in the header pic, I’d love to look as robust as she does, speaking as someone who actually is quite emaciated. If she really had her flesh dripping off her bones due to starvation she’d look… well, she’d look a little different, I think.

      • Erin says:

        Did you watch the embedded tik tok? No she does not look healthy or robust in any sense of the word. I’m not sure when that header photo is from but the tik tok is from this interview so we know that’s what she looks like now.

  7. Kokiri says:

    What a sad, pathetic existence.

  8. Eleonor says:

    It’s not only covid.
    These women, because she is not alone (I am looking at you Vicky B.) Have been starving themselves for decades to look painfully thin. Her body can’t anymore with this nonsense.

    • Dara says:

      Saw someone on Twitter point out that in Gwyneth’s peer group what she does is probably only slightly more extreme than what the rest of them are doing. She probably sees herself as mostly normal, because everyone she knows is an early adopter of the same batsh*t stuff she is. The pressure – social and economic – to stay rail thin must be enormous.

      • Eleonor says:

        Her social group is horrifying, and unfortunately promoting ED in that contest makes total sense

  9. Giddy says:

    As always, she is full of shit. That’s metaphorical shit because she probably has daily high colonics to rid her body of actual shit.

  10. Kim says:

    She’s a snake oil saleswoman.

  11. Seraphina says:

    Long COVID has given her justification for this crazy diet. I never understood her appeal and how she has managed to stay relevant for so long. When will her shelf life expire?

    • BothSidesNow says:

      @ Seraphina, I don’t buy her long covid BS because IF she was suffering from LC, she would have brought it up in the first place. GP is simply trying to worm her way out of the backlash to justify her behaviour. As those who actually suffer from long covid, I do hope that they don’t take GP statements to heart.

      It’s long past due for GP and her snake oil Goop campaign to be removed and disbanded as she is dangerous to those who listen to her and follow in her footsteps.

  12. Granger says:

    I remember when Gwyneth and Chris Martin were still together and she started her crazy Tracy Anderson exercise-and-starvation-diet routine. At the time, I thought, hm… sometimes, when someone starts going to extremes like that, it’s because they’re unhappy and compensating for that unhappiness by controlling what they can — food and exercise. And then she and Chris broke up. Maybe I’m negative, but I can’t help having those same thoughts now.

    I have a friend who went on a very restrictive elimination diet for various reasons. It went on for more than a year. Until she and her a$%^hole husband finally separated and she finally admitted how miserable she’d been with him. She felt happier and more satisfied, started eating normally, gained a little bit of (much needed) weight, and has moved on beautifully.

    I’m not saying elimination diets aren’t helpful, by the way. But they shouldn’t be part of your life for extended periods.

    • SIde Eye says:

      Excellent post @Granger and I agree with everything you said.

    • Sol O says:

      Hi Granger,

      I came here to say your comment rings true to me.

      I just read GP will be involved in a trial this week in Salt Lake City.

      A person is suing GP for running him over while skiing, then fleeing the scene.

      GP is countersuing. She says the person ran into her.

      Might this be a reason (among many I’m sure) for restricting her food intake? Maybe the lawsuit has her feeling not so in control of her life?

    • Sol O says:

      Hi Granger,

      I came here to say your comment rings true to me.

      Thanks.

    • Another Anna says:

      I guess your friend figured out what she needed to eliminate! (I’m very glad for her that she’s happier now.)

      Also I can’t take her seriously when she goes on and on about food and health and…then she smokes and suntans. That behavior makes it clear that what she really cares about is thinness.

  13. aggie says:

    GP sucks and has an eating disorder, but anti-inflammatory diets for long COVID is a real thing. My dr. has me on one and it has helped.

    • Anneli says:

      Gwyneth has never bothered me. I don’t follow her but I don’t get all this outrage and vitriol she gets. I checked out her Instagram account after the latest backlash and she seems to eat a very healthy and nourishing diet that is great for fighting inflammation. I have the same brittle shitty hair she has and I’ve always had it ever since I was a child despite eating everything, so all those comments about her hair are hurtful to me.

      • Elsa says:

        I know. I can’t work up the energy to hate a perfect stranger who obviously has issues. She was a wonderful actress in her day.

      • CL says:

        The clip that everyone is reacting to was edited. I listened to the podcast the clip was from, and she does go into more detail about the proteins and carbs they always have at dinner. The rest of her day does sound meager the way she describes it.

        She said she’s following paleo for anti-inflammation. I try to do the same, and it’s amazing what small changes take place in my body after a week or two of paleo – I don’t get up during the night to go to the restroom, my weirds aches go away, my eyes aren’t bloodshot, my allergies are lessened. There’s a lot to gain from anti-inflammation diets.

  14. Call_Me_Al says:

    I have to armchair diagnose for purposes of saving the rest of us from gaslighting. GP has a serious and chronic ED. It is the most fatal of all psychiatric conditions. Over time anorexia does starve the brain, impairing it from being able to think clearly. Denial takes over as the person is eclipsed by their addiction to disordered eating. It’s extremely difficult to break through this denial several decades in. It would take several months of refeeding in order for her to get her wits about her enough to admit that she even had a problem, followed by a lifetime of recovery and changing her people, places, and things. It’s very unlikely. You can tell it’s a true disorder because GP continues despite deterioration to her appearance, health, skin, and hair, all of which are very important to her. I hope she can find a way to health.

    • Jaded says:

      I agree. My humble opinion is she may have something called ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) which is the adult version of a child’s “picky eater syndrome” and has now been classified as another type of ED. Her diet appears to be extremely restrictive, and in order to get enough vitamins into her system she’s now resorting to IVs instead of simply eating a healthy diet to mitigate her long-haul covid symptoms. All to stay thin…for someone who is so into all these *therapies*, she’s sure avoiding getting therapy herself for what is clearly disordered eating and possible body dysmorphia.

    • samipup says:

      I just wonder happened to her to believe she is filth, something that must go through brutal detoxes and diets. She will never feel normal, she hates herself. What happened to her to feel this extreme need to be punished? She is a a lot of pain. OTOH, This would make a interesting case study. Example: naming her children Apple and Moses.

  15. Sue E Generis says:

    If everything that Gwyneth has been doing/using was truly effective and health affirming, why does she still have all this ‘inflammation’ and ‘toxicity’? Also, if they’re so good for you, why does she look and feel terrible? Just sayin’.

  16. PixiePaperdoll says:

    Name a regular food: French fries
    Name a second regular food: ….

  17. PunkPrincessPhD says:

    For a really thorough, science-based debunking of Goopery and the harm it can cause, see “Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?” by Timothy Caulfield.

  18. Jaded says:

    This is SUCH BS. According to a number of medical studies, she should be eating 2,000 to 2,650 calories per day (based on a 125-pound person). She should be eating a Mediterranean-type diet rich in omega-3s, complex carbs, beans, legumes, and high fiber. She should be eating prebiotics as well as probiotics to keep her gut healthy. Carbs are essential if one of the long-haul symptoms relates to low energy or fatigue and should be eaten every three to four hours at a meal or snack to get her energy levels back up because carbs are our brain and body’s preferred source of energy. Complex carbs like fruits, veggies and whole grains (brown rice, whole-wheat bread, whole-wheat pasta) are all strong sources, not sticking an effing IV in your arm. SMH….

  19. MY3CENTS says:

    At this point its getting sad and pathetic that this is what she’s putting out there, and more importantly how she lives her life.
    I’m so glad the 90s and the waif look are over, and I’m really glad this generation has more body positive role models and are probably not tuning into this nonsense.

  20. Whyforthelove is says:

    She is so obnoxious and entitled, but mostly it seems very ill and so very obsessively unhappy. I am so glad it is being called out instead of her being allowed to push her disordered thinking onto yet another generation of young girls

  21. Kat says:

    “… the 50-year-old added, noting that her daily diet wasn’t “meant to be advice for anyone else.””

    If that was truly the case, she would’ve darn well SAID SO during the podcast. She wanted to come off as this amazing clean living guru when instead she exposed herself to be the Almond Mom disordered eating fraud that anyone with an ounce of sense always knew her to be.

    GTFOH with that wellness crap.

  22. Saschafrom76 says:

    Long-haul Covid means “disabled” just like anyone else with chronic fatigue/MECFS, it’s the same thing different name because god forbid you admit you’re disabled. Your disabled Gwynwth. You should start advocating and be grateful you can get treatments and act like you’re done guru instead if another chronically ill American, who make up 50% of the unhoused population, and the rest of us live off of six dollars a day for food. You should start advocating and acting as such instead of trying to suck everyone into your internalized ableism. Yes, food can be healing, but until it’s available for everybody else, you’re just being an elite disabled person.

  23. Lucy says:

    One of the vitamins she says in the podcast she loves getting but is hard to find is actually readily found in eggs.

    That’s what confirms to me that she’s definitely doing an ED related thing, not a health one. I understand needing anti inflammatory food, especially if she is recovering from long Covid, but man. Getting an iv of vitamins from eggs is a bad sign of how much she’s avoiding food.

  24. Agnes says:

    Wow, IV heroin makes people feel good too. She complains about all the plastic she unintentionally ingests in this polluted world she is too pure for, then regularly dumps highly preserved fluids from plastic IV bags into her veins. What a total nut. What’s next, formaldehyde? It’s a crying shame someone with such a huge platform wastes it by showing us the magic mirror she’s obsessed with peering into.

  25. Yonati says:

    As someone with disordered eating, I would LOVE to have all my food delivered intravenously and not have to make all the choices, and cook, and just generally have to spend time with food. (Yes I’m in treatment)

    • Agnes says:

      It’s sad how many women can clearly spot an eating disorder in someone else (like goop!) because they too have suffered or still suffer from one. I used to wish for a once a day pill with all necessary nutrients I could take instead of eating. Life on earth in a body doesn’t work that way and I hope you get to the other side and enjoy a good meal someday.

  26. jgerber says:

    Yeah, she is a liar. I doubt she has long Covid or ever had Covid at all. She wants to drum up sympathy with “long Covid” and encourage sick people to starve themselves, too. This bitch is beyond getting on my last nerve.

  27. D says:

    Her “doctor” that she’s on the podcast with isn’t an MD, he’s a chiropractor who pretends he’s an actual medical doctor and hawks all this nonsense. It infuriates me because he uses Dr. on everything but you have to read the fine print to find out he’s a chiropractor. No disrespect to chiropractors but they aren’t medical doctors or scientist and should not be giving this type of advice.

  28. theotherviv says:

    I believe she secretly eats more french fries and “peasant food” than we think. But then immediately goes into panic mode and back into disordered eating that makes her feel superior again. I think she wants to be like the eternal supermodels like Elle MacPherson who are either genetic freaks or have made “disordered eating the healthy way” an art form. Those women live to look flawless and do nothing else but maintain all day and maybe some of that is done with some substance abuse on the side. Elle always talks about her green drinks, salads, shakes and teas and how awesome she feels. Gwyneth wants to be in that club. Yeah, no. Both weird.

  29. Justwastingtime says:

    Brittle shiny hair? Wha? I am sorry if you have thin hair, but I doubt you have the same issues and bullhorn that she does.

  30. Izzy says:

    I work with a registered dietician who has done webinars on anti-inflammatory eating and it doesn’t resemble Paltrow’s bone broth starvation cleanse. Not remotely. And I’m guessing that she doesn’t have long covid, she’s probably exhausted because she’s malnourished and starving herself with her ridiculous diets and cleanses.

    • Anneli says:

      It resembles very much the often-recommended diet for people with rheumatoid arthritis such as myself or autism such as my son. No gluten, no casein, no processed food, no sugar.

      • Justwastingtime says:

        Izzy, that’s a good point. At one point in my life I got very skinny (due to a weird reaction to anesthesia under a long surgery and subsequent inability to eat). I was so exhausted when I was essentially malnourished.

  31. Scout says:

    Gwyneth has been insufferable from the first day I saw her. Thanking her parents for her Oscar with a fake British accent and saying ‘mummy’ instead of mother or mom. Ugh.

    Just move to England and annoy them for awhile.

  32. Coco says:

    I’ve been saying that Goop was going to pull the I have a “medical” for this latest diet trend. She been doing this stunt for years.

  33. RoyalBlue says:

    Thank God I never paid attention to anything she said.

  34. Mrs.Krabapple says:

    She needs therapy for her eating disorder, and she needs to stop spreading her dangerous lifestyle to others.

  35. Emily_C says:

    So-called “Long Covid” is ME/CFS. (With the exception of people for some reason calling organ damage they got from Covid “long Covid”, when that’s a different thing.) The symptoms are completely identical. It is the same thing.

    With ME/CFS, you cannot exercise. If you try, it makes you worse, and can cause a collapse. Also, with ME/CFS, it is CENTRALLY important to get plenty of food. I mean PLENTY. Eating can be tough, and especially fixing yourself food can be tough, but your body is not using energy properly so it needs a whole lot of it.

    She is spreading incredibly dangerous lies, as usual. If you have Long Covid, eat. And eat. A big range of foods — fruits and vegetables if you can digest them (ME/CFS messes with digestion too), dairy, meat, bread, cupcakes, frozen dinners, fast food, canned goods, anything you can enjoy eating and won’t push you outside of your energy envelope to prepare. Eat a lot of salt too — it helps hugely. Potato chips are gold.

  36. Duchess of Corolla says:

    Liar. She has an eating disorder. She needs help. She also needs to stop promoting her dangerous practices.

  37. BloatedBaby says:

    Goop is a nutter, but some of her cray eating plan does help with inflammation…both things can be true. Cherry picking nutrition ideas and mashing them into a starvation plan is so much awfulness.
    However I HAVE had a lot of success with intermittent fasting, not as a weight loss tool but to help with inflammation. I don’t eat after 7pm most days and eat again around noon. It has made a big difference in swelling of my feet and hands, and also tummy bloating.

  38. tealily says:

    Ooo, excited for an email list!!!

  39. Bread and Circuses says:

    If she’s such an expert on wellness, and has been for decades now, then how come she got sick and is still sick?

    The fact is, at best, her schtick does nothing at all, and at worst, it’s eroding her health while she struggles to recover from a serious illness.