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TRY BAREFOOT ‘EARTHING’ WALKING barefoot is, Goop discloses, ‘connecting with the energy of [planet Earth]. . . [it] is healthy for our souls and bodies’. It adds: ‘Several people in our community (including Gwyneth) swear by earthing — also called grounding — for everything from inflammation and arthritis to insomnia and depression.’
But you must do your earthing outside. Indoors, you’ll be ‘insulated from the Earth’s electric potential’. If you don’t want to tread on anything nasty, you can spend $59 on a ‘grounding mat’, a carbon-based polyurethane sheet which plugs into sockets and, allegedly, takes in the planet’s electrons.
GROUP DETOXING AND GLUTEN BANS
PALTROW and her Goop team do a group detox every January, drinking lemon-infused water, using infrared saunas and cutting out alcohol, sugar, caffeine, gluten,, dairy, soy, cornrn and veg such as potatoes and tomatoesmatoes (belonging to the nightshade family).
But a drastic detox is all a waste of time according to scientists, who say the liver and kidneys provide all the detoxification we need. Plus, recent American research found avoiding gluten without good cause is linked with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes.
UNDERWIRED BRAS CAUSE BREAST CANCER
SO SAYS Habib Sadeghi, the guru who furnished Gwynnie with the phrase ‘conscious uncoupling’, to describe her divorce from Coldplay’s Chris Martin.
Sadeghi argues that a tight-fitting bra can restrict the lymph nodes, preventing toxins being flushed out. Accumulated
toxins increase the risk of cancer, he says. He also believes the metal underwire can ‘absorb and intensify’ radiation from mobile phones and wifi networks. Experts insist no link has been made between bras and cancer. Telling women who’ve had cancer their bra caused it is ‘just cruel,’ says Dr Jen Gunter.
BURN UNDERWEAR TO CURE HEARTACHE
GOOP clearly has it in for bras, as it also advises that ‘lingerie can carry the negative energy and memories of past flames’.
A Goop ‘relationship expert’ recommends you light a fire, say a prayer to ‘release and forgive’, and toss into the flames the underwear you wore during a failed romantic relationship. Scientists haven’t even bothered to dispute this one.