By: Chelsea Robinson
Profit-driven healthcare models, white-labeled supplements, one-size-fits-all “quick fixes”, and wellness trends stripped of cultural context are gaining more and more attention from increasingly discerning consumers and patients.
Instead of simply accepting treatment recommendations and plans, patients and health and wellness consumers are asking more comprehensive questions to better understand whether the healthcare industry is truly designed to restore health or simply to turn chronic conditions into lifetime customers
Providers of traditional medicine, conscious consumers, and even doctors have, over the past several decades, adopted a more critical stance toward Western medicine, recognizing its limitations and watching a rapidly growing global movement emerge around holistic care, which addresses mental, emotional, and spiritual awareness alongside physical symptoms.
But even within this expanding industry, not all products are created equal, and discernment remains just as essential.