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Dana G Smith
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Mar 10, 2020

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Optimize Me

The Butt Is Not a Backdoor to Health and Wellness

Coffee enemas, colonics, and perineum sunning are not good ideas

Optimize Me is an Elemental column exploring (and fact-checking) the weirdest self-improvement trends. It comes out every Tuesday.

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