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Verywell is a website providing health and wellness information by health professionals. It was launched on 26 April 2016 as a media property of About.com (now Dotdash Meredith) and its first standalone brand. [1] As of March 2017, it reached 17 million US unique users each month. [2]
To a casual observer, this skirmish on the internet of wellness—a place where dubious health claims abound—over a celebrity-endorsed dietary supplement might seem insignificant or even suspect.
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Even if a supplement is safe, that doesn’t mean it’s effective. Take the popular brain health supplement Prevagen, for example. The packaging boasts it’s been “clinically shown” to work.
WebMD is an American corporation which publishes online news and information about human health and well-being. [4] The WebMD website also includes information about drugs and is an important healthcare information website and the most popular consumer-oriented health site. [5] WebMD was started in 1998 by internet entrepreneur Jeff Arnold. [6]
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Wellness is a state beyond absence of illness but rather aims to optimize well-being. [2] The notions behind the term share the same roots as the alternative medicine movement. In 19th-century movements in the US and Europe that sought to optimize health and to consider the whole person, like New Thought, Christian Science, and Lebensreform.
The Illness-Wellness Continuum proposes that individuals can move farther to the right, towards greater health and wellbeing, passing through the stages of awareness, education, and growth. [17] Worsening states of health are reflected by signs, symptoms and disability. In addition, a person's outlook can affect wellness.