Your Health and Wellness Are Elemental

A new Medium publication is here to serve you, our reader

Today we are introducing Elemental, Medium’s new health and wellness publication. We’re launching it because, like so many of you, we want to know the truth about the best way to live and feel better. We looked around, and we all agreed it’s hard to find good, scientifically rigorous reporting in health and wellness that is useful, expert-informed, encouraging, and nuanced. Reporting that doesn’t scare readers, or dumb things down, or debunk and throw shade for the sake of debunking and throwing shade.

We wanted to create something that we wished existed in the world. So we created Elemental.

I care about this deeply. My beloved brother died seven years ago of a rare cancer his doctors didn’t initially understand. My brother’s illness prompted for me an exploration—one that is relatable to anyone who cares about this stuff—into edge science, clinical trials, and alternative medicine. For many years, I, like so many of you, have wanted somewhere to turn for answers.

I also looked for a place where I could learn to feel well myself. I explored shamanism, medicine, acupuncture, CBD. Like so many others, I just wanted to feel okay now and to have the tools that I’d need later, when the shit hit the fan. (The…