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Amy LaRocca

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222 total appearances

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Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

Caulfield, for his part, argues that Paltrow is perhaps not the best messenger for ideas about beauty and health. The fact that individuals who have won the beauty gene lottery are setting universal beauty standards is a bit like using NBA power forwards to inspire people to endeavor to be tall.

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

Caulfield, for his part, argues that Paltrow is perhaps not the best messenger for ideas about beauty and health. The fact that individuals who have won the beauty gene lottery are setting universal beauty standards is a bit like using NBA power forwards to inspire people to endeavor to be tall.

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

I think what makes Gwyneth Paltrow dangerous is that people really listen to her. And as we talked about earlier, is that in the absence of advice from experts, she becomes an expert. And I think that's where it gets dangerous. I think people also forget that she's selling beauty products. And that's her motive.

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

I think what makes Gwyneth Paltrow dangerous is that people really listen to her. And as we talked about earlier, is that in the absence of advice from experts, she becomes an expert. And I think that's where it gets dangerous. I think people also forget that she's selling beauty products. And that's her motive.

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

I think what makes Gwyneth Paltrow dangerous is that people really listen to her. And as we talked about earlier, is that in the absence of advice from experts, she becomes an expert. And I think that's where it gets dangerous. I think people also forget that she's selling beauty products. And that's her motive.

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

Because a lot of the early positioning of Goop was we're just here to ask questions, it obfuscates the we're here to sell things, which is actually what they're there to do. So, for example, I remember reading something in Goop in the early days of the Goop blog, and it was about cancer-causing chemicals in your shower.

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

Because a lot of the early positioning of Goop was we're just here to ask questions, it obfuscates the we're here to sell things, which is actually what they're there to do. So, for example, I remember reading something in Goop in the early days of the Goop blog, and it was about cancer-causing chemicals in your shower.

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

Because a lot of the early positioning of Goop was we're just here to ask questions, it obfuscates the we're here to sell things, which is actually what they're there to do. So, for example, I remember reading something in Goop in the early days of the Goop blog, and it was about cancer-causing chemicals in your shower.

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

And basically, if you read this piece, you would just think your shower was like a cancer box. Like you were just going into your shower to get cancer. You're not going in there to wash your hair. You're not going in there to wash your face. You're going in there to give yourself cancer. It was in the water. It's in the shower curtain. It was in your shampoo. It was in the shampoo bottle.

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

And basically, if you read this piece, you would just think your shower was like a cancer box. Like you were just going into your shower to get cancer. You're not going in there to wash your hair. You're not going in there to wash your face. You're going in there to give yourself cancer. It was in the water. It's in the shower curtain. It was in your shampoo. It was in the shampoo bottle.

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

And basically, if you read this piece, you would just think your shower was like a cancer box. Like you were just going into your shower to get cancer. You're not going in there to wash your hair. You're not going in there to wash your face. You're going in there to give yourself cancer. It was in the water. It's in the shower curtain. It was in your shampoo. It was in the shampoo bottle.

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

I mean, it was terrifying. You'd never shower again if you read this article. And at the bottom of the article, you could click to buy a water filter. You could click to buy shampoo that was safe, that was in glass bottles, that cost $120. And the link to buy it was right there. It was a Goop product. And it was the most terrifying thing I'd ever read.

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

I mean, it was terrifying. You'd never shower again if you read this article. And at the bottom of the article, you could click to buy a water filter. You could click to buy shampoo that was safe, that was in glass bottles, that cost $120. And the link to buy it was right there. It was a Goop product. And it was the most terrifying thing I'd ever read.

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

I mean, it was terrifying. You'd never shower again if you read this article. And at the bottom of the article, you could click to buy a water filter. You could click to buy shampoo that was safe, that was in glass bottles, that cost $120. And the link to buy it was right there. It was a Goop product. And it was the most terrifying thing I'd ever read.

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

And you would just finish this and think, God, I must really hate myself. And I must really not care about my family if I'm not going to buy this water filter, if I'm not going to buy this shampoo and this beautiful glass bottle. What kind of person wouldn't?

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

And you would just finish this and think, God, I must really hate myself. And I must really not care about my family if I'm not going to buy this water filter, if I'm not going to buy this shampoo and this beautiful glass bottle. What kind of person wouldn't?

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

And you would just finish this and think, God, I must really hate myself. And I must really not care about my family if I'm not going to buy this water filter, if I'm not going to buy this shampoo and this beautiful glass bottle. What kind of person wouldn't?

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

Yeah. I mean, she really deflects. She really says she uses a lot of like, you know, don't shoot the messenger kind of stuff. And I'm just asking questions and I'm just here to point these things out. And she really never takes responsibility.

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

Yeah. I mean, she really deflects. She really says she uses a lot of like, you know, don't shoot the messenger kind of stuff. And I'm just asking questions and I'm just here to point these things out. And she really never takes responsibility.

Fresh Air
Navigating The 'Wellness' Epidemic

Yeah. I mean, she really deflects. She really says she uses a lot of like, you know, don't shoot the messenger kind of stuff. And I'm just asking questions and I'm just here to point these things out. And she really never takes responsibility.