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diving into the trillion-dollar machine that is the wellness industry, from what we eat and how we sleep to how we

age, move, and think. Wellness promises to optimize every corner of our lives. Writer Amy LaRaca

asks what's really behind all the promises of this industry in her new book, How to Be Well,

navigating our self-care epidemic, one dubating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious

Cure at a Time. In it, she dives into detoxes, colonics, infrared wraps, sweat lodges,

wellness apps, and supplements to figure out what is real and what's really just good marketing.

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