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The Future of Raw Veganism & Wellness: 2026 Trends & Predictions

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Brain health isn't just personal wellness—it's the foundation for community safety.

The host opens by saying she started doing a yearly trends run-through last year and is back for a second round. She frames the whole episode as a look at what is happening in the wellness industry, what people are drawn to, where the country's moving, what that means for public health, and what she is seeing in her business. Brain health becomes a central thread early on. She explains that reading Dr. Daniel Amen's The End of Mental Illness pushed her toward that subject. At the time, she was working in community development. She was also working alongside a team focused on alternatives to incarceration. That setting led her to think about abolition, public safety, and whether police presence is being used in the right situations. She connects that period to the pandemic, when people were afraid to take walks and even feared their neighbors. From there she keeps tying wellness back to the conditions people live in. The episode later turns to AI. She says there are strong use cases that do not get enough attention. Elder care is one of them. She makes the case that companionship and conversation can help keep the brain youthful. She also notes that younger and wealthier people may be trying to move offline, while meaningful AI use is still expanding. She does not ignore the risks. Instead, she pairs caution about data use and policy with a belief that society should still move forward. Wearables come next. She points to brain-health devices that track prefrontal cortex activity. She describes that part of the brain as the CEO of the brain, the place that handles planning, follow-through, and focus. She mentions tools like Mendy, Muse, and Neuronic as examples of where the space is going. The episode is clear that these tools are not cheap. It still treats them as a notable development. She then returns to the bigger picture of what the trends add up to. Food access matters. Strength matters. Real-life connection matters. High-raw eating done well matters. Advocacy matters too. The episode ends by folding all of that into the long arc of her work over almost two decades.

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A wide, socially minded look at wellness trends that keeps food, brain health, and access in the same frame.

The episode takes a second-year look at the future of raw veganism and wellness, widening the focus from food to brain health, community, systems, and public health.

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Hear a 2026 raw-vegan and wellness forecast that connects food, brain health, and community systems.

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