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PBN Newsletter - 7th October

PBN Newsletter - 7th October

What’s moving In the world this week...

Tom Leach
October 07, 2026

Stacey Dooley’s ‘Clickbait Clinic’ Tackles The Carnivore Diet

Stacey Dooley’s new TV show, Clickbait Clinic, tackles the carnivore diet.

The six-part documentary series follows Dooley, Dr Nighat Arif, and Dr Alex George as they investigate and discuss some of the internet’s biggest viral wellness trends, including the carnivore diet, which has skyrocketed in popularity over the last decade.

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Brand Spotlight

Essiac tea has a history that goes far beyond the modern wellness shelf. Popularised in Canada in the 1920s by nurse Rene Caisse, it has been part of herbal wellness conversations ever since.

Genuine Essiac™ is one of the brands working to preserve that lineage properly. Its formula brings together botanicals including burdock root, sheep sorrel, slippery elm bark, rhubarb root, watercress, blessed thistle, red clover and kelp, a blend of roots, bark, leaves, flowers and sea vegetables with a long history in traditional herbal preparations.

In a category where the formula matters, provenance is the point. Genuine Essiac™ traces its blend back to Dr Charles Brusch, Rene Caisse’s research partner, and has spent more than 21 years working with that history rather than rewriting it.

More than 300,000 boxes later, the brand’s appeal is less about trend-led wellness and more about consistency, continuity and a formula people can trace back to its origins.