Navigating the Wellness Industry with Christy Harrison

In her new book, The Wellness Trap, intuitive eating counselor and writer Christy Harrison argues that the wellness industry is a vortex where people's time, money, and actual well-being are subsumed by a wildly profitable industry. Harrison's skepticism toward the cult of wellness comes from a personal place: she spent years touting "clean" eating, organic foods, and gluten-free regimens while trying to find a diagnosis for a mysterious set of symptoms she was suffering from. The Wellness Trap argues that this industry grew from major systemic failures like poor health care, the spread of misinformation, and the tragedy of American individualism.