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Most of us do not need an official reminder to ignore the majority of Gwyneth Paltrow’s advice on health and wellness. However, when the actress-turned-Goop founder recently tested positive for coronavirus, she took the opportunity to use her massive platform to share how she personally got over the disease. Yes, it involves at least one Goop product. No, it thankfully does not involve inserting crystals in any orifices, so we can at least celebrate a small victory there.
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Paltrow penned a blog post where she revealed that she contracted COVID “early on,” which left her with “ long-tail fatigue and brain fog.” She says she also had to deal with high inflammation and was told by a “functional medicine practitioner” (a quick Google search confirmed that “functional medicine” is a form of alternative medicine that, per Wikipedia, “encompasses a number of unproven and disproven methods and treatments,” so there’s that) that the road to recovery would be a lengthy one. He then conveniently pointed her in the direction of