Goop Lab Special

Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

As the Goop Lab TV series lands in Netflix accounts, Greg Foot and guests look at the scientific evidence for the therapies tried out by Goop staff, including Gwyneth Paltrow herself.

Dr James Rucker, lead on the psilocybin trials at King's College, London, talks about psychedelic therapy, and Dr Sarah Davey, Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Science, Oxford Brookes University, discusses the evidence for cold water therapy. To check out if there's any science behind vampire facials and other skin treatments Greg turns to Dr Nisith Sheth, dermatologist at St John?s Institute of Dermatology, Guy?s and St Thomas? Hospitals. Professor Edzard Ernst, Emeritus Professor of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter, is our reviewer of the evidence for the effects of Reiki and other forms of energy healing. And gynaecologist and pain specialist, Dr Jen Gunter, author of The Vagina Bible, is our expert on what the Goop Lab says about how women can have better sex.

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0:00.0	Hello, podcast fan.
0:03.0	Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party.
0:06.7	We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July
0:09.0	for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival.
0:12.8	We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting,
0:15.3	including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane,
0:18.4	and some bloke called Greg James doing his radio four show called Rewinder.
0:23.2	You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts,
0:25.3	and the best part is free.
0:28.0	To book your free tickets,
0:29.3	go to crossedwires.orgive, forward slash fringe.
0:34.1	BBC Sounds, music Radio Podcasts.
0:42.3	Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to a very special episode of The Best Thing Since Slice Bread, the show that separates fact from fad and isn't afraid to call out marketing BS.
0:55.9	In our first series, I investigated a whole bunch of bold claiming products from the poor
1:01.1	purifying power of activated charcoal to the supportive potential of that brightly coloured
1:06.0	sports tape and the kick of kombucha and turmeric shots. We're going to be back in April to run more of your suggestions through the evidence mill.
1:13.8	That's hot off the press, exciting news, by the way.
1:16.3	Right now, though, in this bonus episode, we're going to be turning our attention not to a product,
1:20.9	but rather to a whole TV series or streaming series or whatever we call it.
1:25.9	Today is the day that Oscar-winning Gwyneth Paltrow's
1:28.8	The Goop Lab premieres on Netflix. Now, the Goop website offers, I quote,
1:34.3	cutting-edge wellness advice from doctors, vetted travel recommendations and a curated shop of
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