Eyes-open meditation, ‘slugging’ and scheduled ‘Goblin Days’: the science behind Gwyneth’s five midlife health rules

Gwyneth Paltrow is the woman who turned a weekly newsletter called Goop, which originally offered recipes for butternut muffins and turkey ragu, into a £200m wellness empire. open image in gallery The star has taken a new approach to life as she’s reached her fifties “It’s important for our health to have those ‘do-nothing’ moments, whether it's a whole day or an hour before the children come home from school, where you sit, lounge, or just be,” she says. During his treatment, Paltrow began to question the foods going into his feeding tube, including a can of food that she says contained “the longest list of chemicals, different things I couldn’t pronounce”. open image in gallery Paltrow says losing her father, who died in 2002, changed the way she treated her body She took it up again in lockdown, saying: “My husband, Brad – during Covid he said, ‘I’d really love to learn how to do that.’ So we went back to my original meditation teacher.” The couple, who have been married since 2018, now meditate together every morning. I think that psychedelics are going to absolutely be – and currently are – the next, most interesting area in addressing mental health,” before adding, “There’s incredible research coming out about these modalities.” Last May, leading UK psychiatrists and mental health charities wrote to the government calling for a change in legislation surrounding the use of psilocybin, which is the active compound in magic mushrooms.