‘I spent a week at a luxury gut health retreat - was it worth it’?
Key Points:
- Luxury gut health retreats in Europe, such as Mayrlife Medical Retreat in Austria, offer personalized, medically informed programs combining restrictive diets, diagnostic tests, and spa treatments aimed at restoring gut health, with costs ranging from $7,000 to $20,000 for week-long stays.
- Influencers like Stephanie Robinson and Matilda Bea Lawlor report significant health insights from these retreats, including discovering food sensitivities, parasites, and candida overgrowth, leading to strict dietary changes and medical treatments such as IV infusions and cryotherapy.
- Retreats emphasize holistic health, including mental wellbeing and movement therapies, with unique protocols like chewing food 40 times before swallowing and avoiding water during meals to enhance digestion, though meals are often described as bland