Perhaps one of the worst offenders in this category is Gwyneth Paltrow (although there sure are others). Her lifestyle website, Goop, is a regular source for Aubrey’s nonsense. She advocates for vaginal steaming and vaginal eggs made of jade (yes, you are to wear these things inside yourself—a practice gynecologists have vehemently condemned). She sells an entire line of unproven supplements and she regularly promotes detox cleanses, colon cleansing, and homeopathy. She erroneously claims (through her “experts”) that underwire bras cause breast cancer and that chemical-based sunscreens (isn’t
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