The Gospel of Wellness with Rina Raphael

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Green juices, skincare, yoga. We all want to keep up with our health. But what happens when corporations, influencers, and snake oil salesmen prey on our insecurities to sell us something we don't need, or worse soemthing, that could harm us? Abdul sits down with Rina Raphael, author of the newly released "The Gospel of Wellness," to break down the people, the systems, and the failures that have allowed the "Wellness Industrial Complex" to thrive in the United States.

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0:00.0	America Dissected is brought to you by the Debeomont Foundation.
0:03.5	Good communication is the first step to good health.
0:06.2	Get practical tips informed by new research in a book from the Debeomont Foundation, Talking
0:10.4	Health, a new way to communicate about public health.
0:13.4	I found this book indispensable and I've spent the last two and a half years talking
0:19.0	health.
0:20.0	So, I hope that you'll check it out.
0:21.0	To learn more, visit TalkingHealthbook.org.
0:33.3	After five weeks of decline, global COVID cases have leveled off.
0:36.9	A new report found that 2021 marked the highest increase in sexually transmitted infections
0:41.3	nationwide in decades.
0:43.4	A panel recommends comprehensive anxiety screen for adults under 65.
0:47.9	This is America Dissected.
0:48.9	I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-Lal Sayed.
0:50.6	Today, we're talking about the wellness industry.
1:01.6	The billions of dollars Americans spend on everything from yoga, green juice, to mindfulness,
1:06.4	and yoni eggs.
1:07.7	This, as you probably well appreciate by now, is a pretty consistent theme of the show.
1:11.9	A few weeks back, we brought you a re-air of one of our very first episodes that explored
1:15.7	the wellness industrial complex.
1:17.3	Today, we're talking to Rina Rafael, an investigative journalist who just released a new book, The
1:21.5	Gospel of Wellness.
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