Going broke on wellness
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We all want to live long, healthy lives without pain. That is like the single most important thing.
The problem is that often what we see in the wellness world is that the cart is put before the horse. So if I'm coming in here on a day-to-day basis, I'm definitely hitting the cold plunge and I'm definitely hitting the sauna. We're all in our wellness era these days, and our producer Hadi Mouagdi had the chance to play around with some extreme wellness. He got to improve his mood, to enhance his muscle recovery, and to have a great night's rest.
We gotta get you to cold plunge with me, bro. Come on.
I should've brought shorts. You know what they have here? Shorts for you. All he had to do was decide to take the plunge. I'm John Glenn Hill, and this is a rerun of a favorite episode of Explain it to Me from Vox. We're the show that takes on the big questions. Questions like, what is wellness? It's a word influencers use as a hashtag in videos of them pouring collagen into their smoothies. Collagen is so good to help support healthy skin, hair, nails, joint support. It's just everything good, and it's so easy to throw into smoothies. That celeb chefs use to describe the theme of their newest book. This is the book that I wish I had when I was confused about what to eat and how to eat. And it's an obsession of the Secretary for Health and Human Services.
We're spending $4.5 trillion annually on health care in our country, and we have the worst health outcomes.
But what does it actually mean?
Hi, this is Hannah calling from the Hudson Valley of New York. I'm a 35-year-old psychotherapist, so I think of wellness a lot. I also think wellness is so much more than just going to a yoga class and drinking electrolytes. I think it's a lot deeper. It's spiritual. And it's something that we all need to be thinking about on the regular.
Here's how journalist Amy LaRocca describes wellness. She's the author of How to Be Well, navigating our self-care epidemic one dubious cure at a time.
I've seen that word attached to absolutely everything.
I've seen it attached to massages, and I've also seen it attached to very serious things to do with important health choices, like vaccines. And then I've seen it attached to really weird stuff, like checking accounts and condos. After her research, Amy's nailed down her own personal definition of it.
My working definition is wellness is a luxury good. And it's the packaging of our health and our beauty into a consumable product.
For sale product. We're going to hear more from Amy a little later in the show. But first, Hadi's going to take us to a place where wellness is top of mind. A health and longevity club called Kuya Wellness in Austin, Texas. Okay, Hadi, I assume that you are out of the tub and all warmed up. Are you ready to go? Absolutely. Let's do it, JQ. I had heard of these places called social wellness clubs. Folks pay lots and lots of money to be part of these clubs in New York and LA. I saw memberships for as much as $1,000 a month. And these places, they don't have gyms or massage tables. There aren't beauty offerings.
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