Synopsis
(Un)Well Season 1 (2020) is a six-part Netflix documentary you can watch online on iFILM — a cool-headed tour through the wellness business and its billion-dollar promises.
One trend per episode, examined from every angle: the believers, the critics, and the people who got hurt. Essential oils sold through multilevel marketing. Tantric sex, shadowed by claims of abuse and appropriation. Bodybuilders drinking breast milk. Fasting pushed past weight loss into biohacking. Ayahuasca. Bee sting therapy. Each one asks the same blunt question — remedy or risk? — and refuses to hand you the answer.
The series favors testimony and data over hype, letting practitioners and skeptics talk past each other while you decide. If the endless promises of the health market wear you down, these six episodes are a clear-eyed counterweight. Stream (Un)Well Season 1 online on iFILM.
6 episodes
S1·E1Essential Oils
Once fringe but now at the center of billion-dollar multilevel marketing companies, plant extracts can help us cope with anxiety. Are they a remedy?
S1·E2Tantric Sex
Sexual healing releases energy and improves intimacy, advocates say. But accusations of abuse and cultural appropriation have dogged the practice.
S1·E3Bulking Up with Breast Milk
Bodybuilding is just one reason why some adults are pumped to drink so-called "liquid gold." Yet is breast milk sharing considered safe — or ethical?
S1·E4Fasting
Fasting has vaulted beyond weight loss as biohackers have used it to optimize body and mind and enhance healing. But the practice holds real dangers.
S1·E5Ayahuasca
Once reserved for Indigenous shamans, this powerful hallucinogen draws those hoping to unlock trauma and quell addiction. Can it also cause psychosis?
S1·E6Bee Sting Therapy
Expensive and labor-intensive bee venom promises to soften wrinkles and treat chronic Lyme disease. But do the risks outweigh the rewards?
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