2020 Wellness Trends
Meet the 2020 Changemakers: These movers and shakers will change the face of wellness
Our wellness predictions are in!
These are the 13 top health and wellness trends we’ll all be talking about in the year ahead.
Abbot's Butcher
Alt-meat moves beyond beef
First came the burgers, now just-like-the-real-thing chicken and fish products are jumping on the alt-meat bandwagon.
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Step aside, CBD—another crowd of cannabinoids is ready for its moment in the spotlight
Get ready to add CBC, CBG, CBN, and more to your wellness alphabet.
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Well+Good Creative
New tech is putting our health data at our fingertips—and our health care in our hands
Your wearables have leveled up.
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Stocksy | W2 Photography
We’ve got a crush on sports bras that finally work with your body
Buh-bye, booby traps! Sports bras are getting the high-tech engineering treatment once reserved for sneakers—and it’s making our workouts better.
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Skin care is the reigning beauty queen—and in 2020 she’ll rule the world
Skin care dethroned makeup as the top seller at the world’s biggest beauty company, and it shows no signs of slowing down.
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Kindbody
The blooming fertility industry is delivering more options for parents-to-be
We’re expecting big changes in 2020 and beyond.
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Stocksy | Sophia Hsin
Chickpeas are getting the cauliflower treatment (aka they’re everywhere)
New chickpea products—from chickpea pastas to cookie dough—are filling grocery store shelves. (And consumers are eating it up.)
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We’ll all breathe easier with air purifying devices in our homes
Indoor air quality is often *worse* than what’s outside—and a $33 billion industry is rising up to meet consumer demand to clean things up.
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Dame
Welcome to the pleasure revolution
Let’s talk about sex—in an inclusive, feminist, and empowering way.
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Stocksy | Vea Vea
Lymphatic health is the next frontier in wellness
Lympha-what? Ready your trampoline and your jade roller, because treatments focused on stimulating this lesser-known body system are about to hit the mainstream.
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Stocksy | Marti Sans
The future of beauty is sustainable—and consumers won’t have it any other way
For beauty brands in 2020, it’s go green, or go home.
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Stocksy | Brat Co
Blue Zones thinking is coming for our workouts
As our calendars come to look more and more like unbeatable games of Tetris, our workouts will become less square.
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In 2020, Well+Good will celebrate its 10th anniversary—and wow, how the wellness landscape has changed since we launched. But before we ring in the next decade, we’re looking back at the major milestones that shaped wellness these past 10 years.
Woo-woo wellness has gone mainstream and it looks like it's here to stay
Sound baths, crystal healing, Reiki—back in 2010, spiritual healing practices like these were still way ...
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The death of the 'bikini body' is the best thing to happen to fitness in the past decade
In the days before you could order both groceries and magazine subscriptions online, it was ...
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Social media isn’t perfect, but it’s brought us together in community, health, love, and beyond
Neither smartphones nor the internet itself were invented within the last 10 years, but both ...
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How self-care became a commodity in the modern era of wellness
These days, you'd be hard-pressed to scroll on Instagram without seeing someone eating something delicious, ...
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It's been 5,000 years, but yoga just can't be stopped
Every yoga class shares a guiding principle: Listen to your body. And clearly, there's something ...
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Matcha and turmeric and CBD, oh my! Looking back at a decade where ingredients became the heroes
It's a truth universally known in the wellness world that once a certain healthy ingredient ...
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How all travel became wellness travel in the past decade
Even if you've always been the type to take an annual yoga retreat or use ...
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The calorie is out, and qualitative eating is in. Finally.
You’ve heard the old adage: “calories in, calories out.” It's the concept that a person ...
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Video killed the radio star, but digital won't end the reign of boutique fitness
Cheers had the bar, Friends, the coffee shop, and Seinfeld put diners squarely on the ...
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The biggest healthy food lesson of the decade I’ve learned: You can literally milk anything
I can say from experience that having a dairy sensitivity in 2010 was rough. The ...
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'Going with your gut' has taken on a whole new meaning in the past decade
Here's a fun party fact for you: The term "microbiome" was first coined in 2001 ...
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How mindfulness came to save us from a mindless world
Mindfulness is hardly a new concept; in fact, the practice of cultivating an awareness of ...
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It's been a big decade for sunscreen—so we've filtered what you need to know about the state of SPF
The year is 2009. Barack Obama is president. Everyone’s talking about Kanye interrupting T. Swift ...
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The rise (and rise) of black leggings over the past 10 years
Black leggings are a nearly ubiquitous staple in women's wardrobes today, but that hasn't always ...
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