Hey there, happy new year. Welcome to Wabi-Sabi podcast episode 107. This is the first of many episodes

called Weekly Wellness, where we're going to focus on hot tips and no bullshit here ever

and no snake oil. Look it up if you don't know what that is a lot of you who are being

brainwashed right now by hype smoke and mirrors and snake oil capitalism at its finest and

since i don't get fucking paid to do this podcast and i'm going out of pocket for it i may as well

just be honest right i'm not going to sell you on bullshit, but I'm going to totally call out a bunch of wellness

trends.

We're going to go through the bullshit and the real deal today.

So welcome to the Wabi Sabi podcast.

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You know, there are a punch of people that have wanted to join the wellness sphere for a long time.

And while I welcome people to our landscape, I do think it's really important to get your degrees to make sure that you study

and that you have a long and hard resume. This isn't an area or a field where I think you can just

go on TikTok and blast out eating liver, drinking pink shit, etc. I think there are dangers lurking

left and right and you should follow

people like Dr. Andrew Weil, one of my friends that I'll be seeing next week when we give him

a big shebang or award or celebrate his many years at 80 years old, a Harvard graduate and

still practicing medicine in certain forms, like at the

Institute of Integrative Medicine at University of Arizona, et cetera, these are things that are

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