Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP Advises Women To Steam Clean Their Vaginas

Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP website has essentially advised women to pay roughly $50 for the privilege of having their lady parts steamed. More specifically, women sit on a throne and have their uteruses steamed, according to the Iron Man actress’ website.

Via GOOP:

Tikkun is the next level when it comes to Korean spas, combining high-tech far infrared heat with traditional Korean sauna therapies. So, if you want to lay down in a Himalayan salt brick tiled sauna, or sit in a Hwangto clay room, you get the added benefit of far infrared heat. And, in addition to the sauna rooms, there’s a long menu of massages and kick-ass body scrubs to complement the sauna time. We’re burying the lede though, because the real golden ticket here is the Mugworth V-Steam: You sit on what is essentially a mini-throne, and a combination of infrared and mugwort steam cleanses your uterus, et al. It is an energetic release—not just a steam douche—that balances female hormone levels. If you’re in LA, you have to do it.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP website sometimes has some quality advice to dispense, but unfortunately, cleansing your vagina via steam cleaning probably won’t rank at the top of that list.

Paltrow has suffered from some personal misfortunes in her life and the actress has some regrets, but we’re guessing she’ll be adding the V-cleanse to her list of things not to do.

Dr. Jen Gunter, a board certified OB/GYN says that ladies should not heed Paltrow’s advice. In a posting on her blog, Dr. Gunter says:

The vagina (and uterus and vulva for that matter) should be viewed as self-cleaning ovens.

Ms. Paltrow and the people who push V-steams also need a little anatomy lesson because unless that steam is under high pressure (like with ejaculation) it’s not getting from the vagina into the uterus. Air (whether hot of cold) does not magically wander from the vagina into the uterus. Heck, even water in the vagina doesn’t get sucked up by the uterus.

I’m not sure what our gal GP thinks balancing hormones actually is (because it means nothing medical), but I am confident when I say that steaming your vagina with wormwood or mugwort will not do anything to hormones because these plants are not hormones. OK, sure, they are not estrogen or progesterone, but what if they are phytoestrogens?

Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP advice is incorrect. Perhaps she should stick to telling people how to reorganize their closets for the sum of $20,000 for a season?

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP Advises Women To Steam Clean Their Vaginas