The GWI just released a “Wellness in the Age of COVID-19” Q&A with Neil Jacobs, CEO, Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas, a person who needs no introduction in the wellness and hospitality worlds. Under Jacobs’s leadership, Six Senses has transformed “luxury hospitality” around the principles of wellness and sustainability more than any other brand. They have 19 resorts worldwide, with an ever-growing global pipeline. In…
A major new study (1,600 participants) from the University of California Berkeley un-riddles why disrupted nightly sleep and clogged arteries are pathologically intertwined. It’s the first study to show that fragmented sleep is associated with a unique pathway—chronic circulating inflammation throughout the bloodstream—which, in turn, is linked to higher amounts of plaques in coronary arteries that can result in fatal heart disease. ACCESS STUDY
The GWI has released a new white paper as part of its series on how wellness concepts could positively “reset the world” post-COVID-19. “Food as Nourishment for Body, Mind and Spirit” takes a sobering look at how the current global food crisis extends from hunger to widespread malnutrition—and how the world’s poor eating habits are destroying our physical, mental and cultural health. Provides strategies (for individuals,…
The GWI just released a “Wellness in the Age of COVID-19” Q&A with Amaya Becvar Weddle, PhD and VP, Research & Product Marketing, Mindbody, a leading tech platform for the wellness industry. Her research team has been undertaking important surveys on how the pandemic is changing wellness businesses and consumers. Weddle discusses: How profound the shift to digital fitness and wellness has been during the…
There are zillions of reasons why some countries have (so far) successfully dealt with the pandemic, while others have not. These causal elements are so intricate and interdependent that they cannot be disentangled from each other, but for the sake of shedding some light on this, let us offer three intriguing, emerging correlations underlying relative success. They may seem simplistic, but they say something and…
A new study published at Cambridge Open Engage (allowing research to be disseminated before it’s peer-reviewed and officially published) studied people who were meeting, or not, the recommended 150 minutes/week of moderate exercise during the pandemic and their reported emotional state. Those physically active during lockdown were significantly less depressed and more mentally resilient than those whose activity levels had declined—with the most striking effects…
