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You could at least laugh at the candle that “smells like my vagina” with a bit of humor.
About a year ago Gwyneth Paltrow sold a "This Smells Like My Vagina" scented candle on her lifestyle site Goop.com, she wanted the equivalent of 67 euros for it (which she got, the candle sold out surprisingly quickly).
Paltrow is now notorious for such crazy products - but not everything the actress and entrepreneur offers for high prices is as harmless as the vagina candle.
The most recent example: In an article entitled "Healing my body with a longer-term detox" - How I heal my body with a long-term detox - the 48-year-old learns about the long-term consequences of her corona disease and scientifically unsubstantiated tips to cure them.
This advice is linked to a long shopping list on which you can find various of your own powders, tinctures and products that can be purchased in the Goop online shop, including a “super powder” for 50 euros and an infrared sauna blanket for around 415 euros and a t-shirt for 105 euros.
Paltrow also recommends a gold necklace for just over 7,000 euros - which is “perfect for a hike,” writes the Hollywood star.
Anyone wondering at the latest what a necklace can do against corona long-term consequences (small spoiler: nothing at all) knows roughly how it relates to your other recommendations.
She herself, writes Paltrow, suffered from Corona “early” and as a result still suffered from “exhaustion and drowsiness”.
In January of this year, she then underwent "some tests" that showed a "high level of inflammation" in her body.
What kind of tests were those, who carried them out and what were the results?
Paltrow does not explain any of this.
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Instead, she begins to praise her chiropractor for being "one of the brightest experts I know in this field".
No, not in the area of the long-term consequences of Corona - but in the area of "intuitive fasting".
This is also what the chiropractor's book is about, the cover of which Paltrow has incorporated into her blog entry in an advertising-effective manner.
Specifically, what is Paltrow doing to get rid of fatigue and drowsiness?
She doesn't eat anything until 11 a.m. every day, after that only "ketogenic and plant-based", and she also does without sugar and alcohol.
Because Paltrow is not completely stupid either - and has very likely learned from previous scandals about her products, but more on that in a moment - she describes neither her diet nor the overpriced T-shirts and necklaces as an effective cure for the long-term consequences of Corona.
But with the narration of her own illness and the persistent complaints she puts them precisely into this context and suggests that improvements could be achieved in this way.
A few years ago, Paltrow was much less aware of this.
Among other things, she claimed that a flower essence she sold on Goop.com could cure depression.
She also offered a jade egg that, when introduced vaginally, should help balance hormone fluctuations and combat bladder weakness - which the egg did not, of course.
Neither did the flower essences cure depression.
Because of the "scientifically unjustified" statements it came to trial in the USA in 2018.
The Californian consumer protection agency had filed a lawsuit, and an out-of-court settlement was finally reached - Paltrow's company Goop made a payment of the equivalent of 120,000 euros.
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Paltrow doesn't seem to have really learned anything from it.
She is just formulating her dubious health advice much, much more cautiously today.
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