Gwyneth Paltrow's 'Goop Lab' Slammed For 'Considerable Risks To Health'

Gwyneth Paltrow's new show Goop Lab just dropped on Netflix and it's already drumming up a ton of controversy. The shows log line reads: "Leading with curiosity, Gwyneth Paltrow and her Goop team look at psychedelics, energy work and other challenging wellness topics." In the 6-part docu-series, Paltrow and her team try cold exposure therapy, visit psychics and attempt to increase longevity through dietary changes.

Shortly after the show premiered, the chief executive of Britain's National Health Service criticized both Paltrow's lifestyle brand Goop and the subsequent Netflix show based on it. According to NHS chief Simon Stevens, the show poses “considerable risks to health.” He accused Goop of giving prominence to “quacks, charlatans and cranks” in promoting untested health and wellness treatments.

“Gwyneth Paltrow's brand peddles ‘psychic vampire repellent,' says ‘chemical sunscreen is a bad idea,' and promotes colonic irrigation and DIY coffee enema machines,” he continued, adding that there is no scientific evidence to support many of Goop's claims. The NHS takes the threat of Goop so seriously, Stevens revealed, they've issued official warnings against it.

Though Paltrow hasn't responded directly to Stevens' comments, this isn't the first time Goop has been criticized for these very reasons. A spokeswoman for Goop said the company “takes efficacy and product claims very seriously" and noted it has a legal and compliance team that works with their science and research group to vet product claims, according to USA Today.

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