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First episode of the series 'The Goop Lab' on Netflix: Gwyneth Paltrow and his team of collaborators from Goop, the online platform where the actress shares her lifestyle and moves a business valued at 250 million euros, moves to a center specialized in psychedelic psychotherapy in Jamaica. They want to explore the effect of hallucinogenic mushrooms on stress and anxiety states, as was often done in the 60s. The camera observes volunteers crying, laughing and releasing all kinds of emotions during their 'trip'.

Paltrow then talks with the experts of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies, who explain the usefulness of this type of drugs in some patients. It is the same line of research from universities as prestigious as Johns Hopkins. However, these studies are carried out in controlled environments, with patients suffering from severe pathologies of depression and addictions, and under strict medical supervision.

The cheerful group of Goop does not seem to fit the profile , however, they are the protagonists of an experiment that, before the camera, seems entertaining. In fact, that is supposedly the purpose of the series: "We intend to entertain and inform, not offer medical advice," appears as a warning at the beginning of each of the six episodes with which the actress intends to show other possible paths by which achieve physical and spiritual well-being.

Ice baths and seers

In the following episodes, the Goop team is immersed in icy waters because cryotherapy, supposedly, improves the immune system and reduces stress; investigate diets and use of enriched plasma to reduce biological age; undergo energy rebalancing treatments through a holistic approach to Western medicine (are there several? WHO does not believe it); and connect with their sixth sense by opening themselves to the psychic abilities that each one possesses thanks to the help of a seer.

Is it ethical to ensure that Paltrow is limited to 'informing' when the scientific arguments that oppose some of these theories are not offered? The question is asked by many experts before the controversy generated once again by the actress, accustomed to endure criticism of her vital advice as who hears rain. Probably, consider the cost of becoming the Juan de Arco of disruptive well-being in the face of the narrow gaze of traditional science.

Perhaps that malicious campaign was the origin of the $ 125,000 fine he had to pay for the deceptive publicity that claimed that his vaginal jade eggs regulated menstruation and balanced hormones. As expected, experts also advised against their coffee enemas to release stress and improve depression; They labeled their vaginal steam baths stupid to clean the uterus, as did their 'mental vampire repellent'. The last of the warnings of the scientific community was to lash out against its proposal to maintain a diet that favors the lowest weight with which one can live, a recommendation only welcomed by people with eating disorders. Never informing and entertaining was so dangerous.

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