Long Covid and intuitive fasting, Gwyneth Paltrow accused of misinformation

It is not the first time that Gwyneth Paltrow is accused by the scientific community of disseminating fake news on sensitive issues concerning health (in the past he also had to pay penalties for this reason, apologizing publicly). A few days ago, the founder of Goop, as well-known, very passionate about everything that is well-being, was urged by the leaders of the National Health Service UK to think twice before proposing easy and unscientific solutions to Covid. To report it is the newspaper “The Guardian”. But let’s see better what happened.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s post-Covid experience
The former Hollywood actress, 48, has come out saying that the intuitive fasting devised by her trusted doctor, Dr Will Cole, author of the new book “Intuitive Fasting”, had proven effective in treating post Coronavirus symptoms, which she contracted a few months ago. Covid which, as Gwyneth told in an article published on the Goop website, “it left me with a feeling of enormous exhaustion and a kind of confusion and mental fog, plus very high levels of inflammation in my body. ‘ In conjunction with the intuitive fasting recommended by Dr Cole, the Californian wellness guru explained that too do regular infrared sauna sessions and consuming coconut water, kombucha and sugar-free kimchi, as well as herbal drinks would have helped her recovery from the after-effects of Covid-19.

The invitation to social responsibility for Mrs Paltrow (and all influencers)
And here is that the professor Stephen Powis, director of the Briannic Health Service and professor of renal medicine at University College London, has chosen to enter the field, recalling that those of Paltrow they are not solutions recommended by science, emphasizing the need to be responsible before proposing similar remedies on social media. “We need to take Covid very seriously and stick to scientific recommendations only. All influencers who use social media to communicate to the world have a duty of responsibilityPowis pointed out. Who knows if Gwyneth Paltrow will take the trouble to answer or not.

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