Im a wellness writer: Here are the 2025 trends to skip and what to try instead

The days of a simple cure are long over.We’ve arrived in 2025 — an era where health and wellness are buzzwords, diagnosis and prognosis can take place over Zoom, and a marketplace of products to make you feel and look your best is at your beck and call.

Naturally, the internet is filled with unsolicited advice by self-taught nutritionists and influencers (who maybe tried celery juice, once), which means it can be tough to discern fact from fiction and figure out what actually works.Hence, the time has finally come to drop the hammer on last year’s wackiest health and wellness trends.

Let’s start with an overview.Of course, there was the expected progression of older health fads, like bed-rotting, hot-girl-walking, and even a somewhat warmer embrace of ‘NADing’ as some call it — a long-attempted solution to slow down cellular aging.

But, we also had Gen Z slathering their faces with diaper rash cream to scorch pimples, looking for ‘Ozempic dupes’ at gas stations, dry brushing their skin to boost circulation, and chugging magnesium ‘moon water’ to put themselves to bed.There were also $10k-per-session IVs as hangover cures, frog venom ceremonies for emotional healing, a sober-curious movement, and much, much more.

If your eyes are rolling, you’re not alone.RELATED: Could a heavy metal detox be the secret to good health? I detoxed for 30 days to find outIt’s nearly impossible to keep track of all the expert claims and celebrity endorsements over the past year, but if there is one thing we’re quite certain of, it’s that some trends were trends for a reason.They’re just not built to last — whether unaffordable, unhealthy, or flat-out dangerous.

As a wellness writer who spends a bit too much time analyzing indigent lists and scrolling on TikTok, there’s hardly anything that brings me as much joy as scrutinizing 2025’s hottest wellness trends and offering up some expert-recommended alternatives.Enter the ultimate wellness don’t...