The Global Wellness Institute just released reports on the physical activity and fitness economies for six world regions: Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America-Caribbean, Middle East-North Africa, North America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Each report is packed with data on consumer participation rates and market sizes for all six industry segments: 1) sports and active recreation; 2) fitness and gyms; 3) mindful movement; 4) equipment and supplies; 5)…
A new randomized clinical trial from Harvard Medical School and Boston University (published in JAMA Psychiatry) compared a 12-week program of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and Kundalini yoga (which involves traditional yoga components, breathwork and meditation) against a stress education control group, for people with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). They found that CBT was still the best first-line treatment, but that the yoga regime also…
A majority of scientists and pundits now predict that COVID-19 will be with us well into 2021. Its enduring presence is psychologically taxing, and anxiety is an ever more permanent feature of our lives. It creates stress, which in turn constrains our ability to make the right decisions. It also narrows the range of options we are capable of considering when making a decision. In…
Welltodo Global, an organization that helps people build businesses and careers in the wellness industry, recently released an important 60-page report: the 2020 Wellness Innovation Blueprint. This is the first research to map the fast growing, many-sector wellness industry ecosystem and bring to life the vast number of brands that are defining a new era of “everything wellness” for the modern consumer. It spotlights 25+ industry…
The GWI just released a “Wellness in the Age of COVID-19” Q&A with Melisse Gelula, co-founder of Well+Good, a pioneering media company that she brought to successful acquisition in 2018. She is one of the undisputed experts on wellness markets and trends and is now advising wellness start-ups in tech, beauty and more. Gelula discusses some “big picture” ways that the last months of crisis have shaken up wellness…
A study from Saarland University (Germany) compared elite, competitive athletes’ (both men and women) to normal, healthy young people’s immune response to a vaccine. They found that after a flu vaccine, the athlete group had significantly more immune cells and antibodies post-vaccination than the non-athlete group. The researchers concluded that being in great shape is associated with a much more pronounced immune response and is…
