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2022 Wellness Trends
2022
WELLNESS TRENDS
A new year means a new wave of wellness trends that will be taking over the space. We decided to ask some experts across industries to share their predictions for what trends they think will take off in 2022. From skincare to nutrition, we’re sharing what’s ahead!
HEALTH / WELLNESS
MUNDANE MUSHROOMS
Much attention in recent years has gone to the therapeutic benefits of mushrooms -- and in 2022 I expect the use of medicinal mushrooms like reishi, lion’s mane, and oyster mushrooms to become more common. You can find these mushrooms at the supermarket, but unlike the portobellos and white button mushrooms you ate as a kid, these medicinal mushrooms have been shown in studies to support our brains and our overall health.
Medicinal mushrooms like lion’s mane help reduce neuroinflammation, which can result in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, and mood disorders like depression, anxiety, brain fog, and poor sleep. While reishi, a large brown mushroom often dried into a powder and added to teas, has been shown to reduce fatigue, depression and slow the spread of cancer cells.
As we look to new wellness trends in 2022, I expect consumption of these medicinal mushrooms to rise as people both become more attuned to how their physical health shapes their mental health and look to how we can use food as medicine.
ROBIN BERZIN
Founder + CEO, Parsley Health
BUSINESS
SUSTAINABILITY
I believe we are now appreciating our planet in a way that it always deserved, and recognizing that we must not treat it as something disposable that doesn’t need protecting. We are outside more, and nature has become a safe space in the last two years. This will translate into more focus on sustainability across our daily lives and the entirety of a supply chain. I think it’s a great responsibility of my industry, personal care, to make huge strides in how we impact the planet, as well as my personal responsibility to change my own behaviors for the better.
AMANDA BALDWIN
CEO, Supergoop!
BEAUTY
FACE ACUPUNCTURE
I think a new self-care wellness trend we’ll see more of in 2022 is facial acupuncture. It’s new and just starting to gain traction. It’s another option to reduce wrinkles and create more youthful looking skin! I think it can be in the same category as botox and fillers. I started doing it, and have seen great results!
ALLI WEBB
Founder, Drybar
NUTRITION
NEW MEDICINE TECHNOLOGY
In 2022, we will see the emergence of what I am calling the “New Medicine”, which uses technology to help monitor, understand, and optimize one’s health, while preventing and predicting disease. This “New Medicine” will incorporate your genetics, your health history, all your labs results, the information from your wearables, and your diet and exercise routines on one intelligent platform. You will be able to have an app in your pocket that could alert you to the quality of your sleep, the level of your stress, and offer you instant personalized solutions in real time. You will be able to invest in your health 365 days a year, not just for 30 minutes during your annual physical.
DR. FRANK LIPMAN
Founder, Eleven Eleven Wellness Center & Pioneer of Functional Medicine
FOOD / BEVERAGE
GUT HEALTH ft. PROBIOTICS & VITAMIN D
Gut Health and Immune Health reign supreme in 2022. If COVID taught us anything it’s that good health is critical and that starts with our gut. With more research coming out on how the gut effects our overall immune health as well as our mental health, it will be that much more important to be feeding our gut all the good things that it needs to thrive, like Prebiotics. Prebiotics have been popping up in drinks, which is usually where you see trends start, next up food products.
In addition to prebiotics, there will be an amplified conversation on the importance of collagen for the gut. Rather than focusing on collagen for the skin, the conversation will shift to the benefits it brings to healing the gut for those who have gut issues (which is most of us!). Collagen as an added gut benefit will continue to proliferate products.
While many of us are deficient in Vitamin D, it’s clear that this vitamin / hormone is essential not only for our immune health but also our mental health, and gut health. I predict we start seeing this added into drinks, foods, you name it!
ELIZABETH STEIN
Founder + CEO, Purely Elizabeth
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