James Barry argues that celebrity cleanses and one-off wellness sessions won't fix your health. Real recovery comes from understanding how daily toxin exposure and lifestyle choices damage your microbiome, then taking personal responsibility to change them.
I think it's a total scam and a total waste of money. You're misleading the consumer. One session with some functional medicine celebrity, the 7-day gut cleanses, and then feel like a total failure. They're just pointing at the wrong factors and spending money on the wrong things. You could be making really expensive food choices and not being able to absorb them. Show me your toxin labs and I'll show you, based on your zip code that you've lived in, where you picked those up. Those tiny exposures are are what push the microbiome into distortions. For real health issues, we have to remember we lived our way into them. Now we're going to live our way out of them. No one is coming to save you. In fact, you wouldn't want them to.
