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Media Contact: Beth McGroarty
\nbeth.mcgroarty@globalwellnessinstitute.org<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 +1.213.300.0107<\/p>\n

Global Wellness Institute Cautions Industry and Consumers to Sift Fact from Fiction When It Comes to Immunity-Boosting Claims for Coronavirus<\/strong><\/h3>\n

With an avalanche of immunity-building claims coming from every corner of the world, GWI\u2019s WellnessEvidence.com helps consumers make informed decisions with evidence-backed research on 30 different wellness modalities<\/em><\/p>\n

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Miami, FL \u2013 April 1, 2020 <\/strong>\u2013 The Global Wellness Institute\u2122 (GWI), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to empower wellness worldwide, reminds wellness seekers that there is evidence-based, medical research available on mainstream wellness modalities. Since the launch of WellnessEvidence.com<\/a> in 2015, the GWI\u2019s researchers have made it their mission to help individuals more easily sift through thousands of clinical studies as they seek solutions to health issues. All GWI\u2019s resources are absolutely free, including its bi-monthly\u00a0newsletter, the\u00a0Global Wellness Brief<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0which includes important insights and information on wellness evidence.<\/p>\n

WellnessEvidence.com<\/a> provides easy access to, and key summaries of, clinical studies on numerous wellness modalities that appear in the world\u2019s most authoritative sources of evidence-based medicine, including Natural Medicines, the Cochrane Library, PubMed and the TRIP Database.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnline searches on how to bolster immunity and cope with rising stress\/anxiety have surged during the Coronavirus crisis,\u201d said Susie Ellis, chair and CEO of the GWI. \u201cPeople are seeking evidence for the best immunity weapons, but fear has also made us vulnerable to the barrage of online ads for \u2018miracle\u2019 supplements, superfoods, tonics, vitamins, essential oils and potions that claim to prevent or treat COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n

Governments and private businesses are also taking action on the avalanche of health and wellness misinformation. For example, in the US, the FDA recently sent warning letters to companies selling wellness teas, aromatherapy oils, tinctures and colloidal silver, as there is no evidence they can prevent or cure Coronavirus. Twitter is pulling down tweets for products\/approaches \u201cknown to be ineffective or not applicable in the COVID-19 context.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve watched with great pride at how our industry is committed to giving consumers much access to wellness while practicing physical distancing during these stressful times,\u201d said Ellis. \u201cI encourage everyone to add Wellness Evidence to their \u2018wellness toolkit,\u2019 as it not only provides access to the same databases doctors use when evaluating alternative or complementary medicine, it also simplifies searches for common wellness modalities. It is a much-needed, \u2018spin-free\u2019 wellness research zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

GWI researchers provided these examples of wellness modalities reviewed on WellnessEvidence.com:<\/strong><\/p>\n