AIBU to think "Wellness gurus" are mostly spouting bollocks?

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I just wouldn't have a treatment or class or other service from someone I didn't like or respect.
Wouldn't let them into my day! My life! My choice!
Signing out now
Love and light! 💫⭐️

How on earth does that make me a hypocrite? I don’t pretend to like her. I don’t interact personally with her at all. She’s a perfectly ok spin instructor and the time I need to do the class to get to work, she teaches. I don’t need to like her. I just need to sit on my bike and pedal and say thank you at the end. Your interactions on this thread have been very odd from the get go!

OK so you're a hypocrite too - your choice

I agree but also take responsibility for avoiding that shite and most importantly, learn which is shite and which is scientifically accurate. This is really important, because otherwise the next step will be the right wing calling scientific evidence wellness shite, because it suits big business interests.

Indeed women are easy targets for guilt tripping and not being perfect enough and then marketing gets involved to sell solutions. If we are suffering in any way it must mean that it’s our fault for not doing something right or taking xyz, in your case it’s your fault for not drinking enough water.

I’m not going to continue engaging after this because it is derailing, but I do think you keep framing your position as moral, which you’ve repeated several times.

That doesn’t really come across in your posts, though. Instead they read as quite aggressive, critical and judgemental of the OP for having a negative interaction with someone who stepped outside their area of expertise and offered unsolicited and clearly unwanted advice.

In my experience, people who behave in those ways, aggressively critical and judgemental often do see themselves as being in the moral right, even when others may not view it the same way.

I would suggest give your feedback to the department that referred you for the program. Do the program, the bits of it that are relevant may be fine, but the NHS is paying to send you and loads of other people on it, and you're being upsold memberships and given questionnable advice. They'll be paying for loads of other people to do the same thing, and if it's done shoddily, or even done alright but with dubious elements, it's the person who has decided to commission it that should get the feedback, because you can bet they very rarely do.

You’d find me very unethical @TaraLotus I go to a class every week that is taught by a woman I loathe. Because the time suits my schedule. The horror!

My issue is more with the way supplements and other things are targeted at women, particularly as wonder cures for aging and menopause. It is a whole industry that has become increasing prevalent especially on social media. Previously it was miracle anti aging cream but now we have a multitude of different supplements and infra red masks and all kinds of stuff that we need to do to keep us from falling apart. Again lots of this has little scientific evidence to back it up, just celebrity endorsements and preying on women’s fears.

Required subject for study not necessarily a required GCSE.

Oh for Gods sake, she knows her own body!

OK this is your position
we all choose and live by own codes of ethics in how to treat others

This makes no sense. If a car mechanic started giving me parenting advice, I wouldn’t stop using them simply because I disagree with their views. That comparison doesn’t hold up. You’re claiming your argument has some moral perspective but it really doesn’t.

If you need fluid you feel thirsty. Then you take in fluid.

Medicalising this simple fact of everyday life is a sure sign of charlatanism.

Fluids...tea is a fluid. 5 cups is probably mugs. The article also states that 20% of fluid intake comes from food. So, 5 large mugs of tea a day, plus OP's food intake, bearing in mind some food has a higher water content than others, is probably sufficient, depending on her activity levels and her diet.

That's an AVERAGE. You can't generalise from an average and assume it applies to everyone, or it should be a goal to aim for. That's not how averages work.

It's like saying that the average trouser leg inseam is 35", so I should hem all my trousers to 35" - even though you have never looked at me to see how short or tall I am.

Honestly, it's a two-edged sword, living in the "age of information". There's so much interesting stuff to be found out, and yet just as much that's ripe for misinterpretation. And the blind confidence in one's expertise in a subject, having spent a few hours on Google, is a real liability.

And yet you have joint pain. Waiting until you are seriously dehydrated to drink water is a bad choice, as if relying on cues of thirst. I have no degrees, and do not have a high horse to get up upon, unlike you, but my rheumatologist, who is head of rheumatology at two major hospitals, and hardly a woo-meister, would heartily disagree with you. Your (dessicated) funeral.