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How to Be Well
Finding a way through the healthcare epidemic without losing your mind or your money
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Peloton. Pilates. Biohacking. Colonics. Ashwagandha. How did we get here and how did the idea of wellness become integrated with women's lives? Peloton. Pilates. Biohacking. Colonics. Ashwagandha. How did we get here and how did the idea of wellness become integrated with women's lives? 'A rollicking...
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How to Be Well
A deeply researched, lively, and personal exploration of the multibillion-dollar wellness industry — about why women are feeling so un-well and how this trend has shaped our thinking about health and self-care.
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Peloton. Pilates. Biohacking. Colonics. Ashwagandha.
How did we get here and how did the idea of wellness become integrated with women's lives?
Peloton. Pilates. Biohacking. Colonics. Ashwagandha. How did we get here and how did the idea of wellness become integrated with women's lives?
'A rollicking exploration of our desperation for wellness, our devotion to CBD, self-care, and Soul Cycle, deftly separating the gobbledygook from the truly transformative.' Ariel Levy, author of The Rules Do Not Apply
Today, the wellness industry is a $3.7 trillion behemoth that touches us all. Amy Larocca takes readers into the communities that swear by their activated charcoal toothpaste and green juice enemas, explaining what each of these practices really is, and what the science says.
Larocca holds a magnifying glass to alternative medicine and nouveau lifestyle prescriptions — and tries a lot herself along the way — ultimately delivering an assessment of how the wellness industry embodies our (gendered, class-based, racialised) perceptions of care and self-improvement, and how it preys on our unshakable fear of the unknown. She traces the history of how the beauty and fashion industries have peddled snake oil to women for decades, and why we keep coming back for more.
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ISBN: 9781835014325
Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 January 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bedford Square Publishers
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Amy Larocca is an award-winning American journalist. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Town & Country and the London Review of Books, among others. She lives with her family in New York and North London.
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