The wellness community has long embraced alternative approaches to health. But when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the combination of a quest for answers, distrust of mainstream sources, influencers co-opting conspiratorial phrases and hashtags, and social media algorithms built to keep people scrolling created a perfect storm of misinformation. A new CBS Reports documentary, in the Reverb series, explores how for some, the yoga and wellness worlds became a gateway to conspiracy theories.

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