The global wellness industry is estimated at around $7 trillion, and it's growing fast.

I guess you could see that as a great thing, that so many people have so many resources to devote to their well-being.

We should say that what the industry counts as wellness can extend pretty far,

from anything to do with your sleep, to home cold plunges,

from high-protein everything, to biohacking with untested peptide injections from Chinese labs.

Before there was social media or podcasts, books were the primary vehicle for spreading the

wellness gospel, and there are still thousands of books published in the space every year.

But the book we're talking about today has a title that may seem out of sync with the current

wellness trends.

Eat your ice cream is the name? That is Ezekiel or

Zeke Emanuel. He has been on the show before talking about GLP-1s and the dysfunctional American

healthcare system. He has been a key player in that system. He is an oncologist, bioethicist,

a professor at the University of Pennsylvania,

and a policymaker who helped draft the Affordable Care Act. In his new book, he argues that most

wellness advice today manages to be both too complicated and too simplistic. A lot of the wellness

gurus and influencers out there, they have to get on social media daily,

they have to write something, and they make things way too complicated because they have to have

something, quote, unquote, new to bring people back.

They're too simplistic because most of these wellness things are just focus on the physical and sort of downplay other things.

So how does he see wellness?

Wellness is a lifestyle.

It's something you're going to have to do for decades.

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