Why Wellness Culture Is Becoming A Replacement Religion (opens in new tab)

Modern Americans increasingly use food the way earlier civilizations used liturgy. Not entirely consciously, of course. Nobody stands in Whole Foods holding artisanal bone broth whispering, “At last, a coherent metaphysical framework.” People still think they are discussing inflammation. But underneath the endless conversations about seed oils, raw milk, gut health, fasting windows, sourdough fermentation, protein optimization, ancestral diets, carnivore protocols, liver capsules, glucose spi...