Let’s question wellness trends!
- Chris st clair
- Oct 6
- 3 min read
Updated: Oct 12
I posted something on Instagram about wellness that might sound a little controversial — and I want to go deeper here.
Why do I care about this personally?
Because there was a time I was deep in into "the wellness world". To me, it meant biohacking trends, green powders, hours of health podcasts, and endless tweaking.
I genuinely thought I was taking care of myself. Those of you who’ve followed me on Instagram from the start may remember the fat-free recipes... and that one 9 day juice cleanse.
Let me walk you through what I used to do - and why none of it was actually helping.
My morning routine looked great at first glance:
I had warm water with lemon on an empty stomach, followed by freshly squeezed celery juice (I was using a super expensive juicer and bough only organic celery - I thought that I really nailed it!)
Then came coffee, black, of course, because some podcast said that’s better for blood sugar.
I pushed breakfast as late as I could - because fasting and autophagy were the holy grail.
Breakfast was a frozen smoothie with spirulina and other green powders (for detox, of course). And no fat ("not to burden the liver").
I topped it all off with a whole pharmacy of supplements, trusting famous American influencers blindly. If it was “scientifically proven,” I assumed it must be right!
I was spending a lot of money and every single capsule gave me a tiny dose of new hope.
High doses of omega-3s (“good for hormones”), then the basics: zinc, magnesium, B-complex, C, D (“because we all need to supplement those, right?”). When that didn’t work, I moved to NAD (“repairs cells”), shilajit (“for minerals”), turmeric tablets (“anti- inflammatory!”), probiotics ("for gut health, of course"), and some collagen ("won't hurt for skin health").
And the cherry on top was the constant detoxing...
Parasite cleanses. Liver cleanses. Expensive herbs from the internet. Every few months, I was doing another juice cleanse, trying to clear out vague “toxins” I couldn’t even define.
The problem was: everything looked like self-care on paper, but it wasn’t meeting my body's REAL needs!
It really did make sense to me on the mental level, but my body wasn't happy.
I was always cold, bloated and kind of irritated. My skin continued being inflammed, despite my diet being "anti-inflammatory", according to my resources back then.
I started the day empty, literally.
Warm lemon water, celery juice, black coffee - all light, sharp, drying, and acidic. All of them stimulating, not nourishing. They kicked things up, but was nothing grounding and substantial enough to balance my body's tissues. My system had to process a lot first thing in the morning... before it even got any actual fuel.
Then came the smoothie, frozen, raw, and green, with no fat to slow it down or warm it up. It was meant to detox, but it left me depleted and hungry an hour after.
Little I knew that it doesn’t matter how clean or organic or expensive your inputs are.
Just when you don’t give your body the qualities it needs - warmth, stability, softness, safety - You’re not replenishing. And eventually your body speaks: through fatigue, inflammation, bloating, and that constant low-grade irritability that no amount of spirulina can fix.
When it comes to supplements, I realized that just because something is trending or backed by science, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the best fit for me or for my body’s needs. There is absolutely no point in supplementing things without correcting your digestive fire first. If your system can’t absorb nutrients, they just sit there, or worse, overheat and burden your organs (turmeric tablets, for example is too heating for many livers!).
AND ALSO: our bodies evolved to extract nourishment from food, not isolated chemical compounds locked in capsules!
And finally, about detox: Yes, it’s important. But not this way.
I learnt that true detox doesn’t mean purging or pushing the body harder. It means working with the body, not against it.
We should go step by step, gently preparing the system before releasing anything. Imagine illness or imbalance like a tree - we don’t try to uproot it in one go. First, we cut off the dry branches, support the soil, and slowly work our way to the root.
The truth is, no real healing happens when the body feels rushed, deprived, or unsafe.
As you can see, it took me a while to "unlearn" wellness as we know it.
And if you’re also done chasing wellness trends and are ready to build true balance (one that feels good in your body) - I’d love to work with you!
