{"id":62884,"date":"2025-10-07T01:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/62884\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T01:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T01:27:11","slug":"13-times-celebs-shared-wild-or-dangerous-health-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/62884\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Times Celebs Shared Wild Or Dangerous Health Hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/intothegloss.com\/2014\/03\/shailene-woodley-hair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Into The Gloss<\/a> in 2014, Shailene raved about ingesting clay, claiming that it &#8220;helps clean heavy metals out of your body.&#8221; &#8220;Clay is great for you because your body doesn&#8217;t absorb it,&#8221; she said, &#8220;and it apparently provides a negative charge, so it bonds to negative isotopes.&#8221; This is not scientifically backed, and the FDA has even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/drugs\/drug-safety-and-availability\/fda-warns-consumers-not-use-best-bentonite-clay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">issued warnings<\/a> against consuming bentonite clay, which is what Shailene specifically recommended. <\/p>\n<p>In the same interview, Shailene also raised eyebrows by saying that she sunbathes her vagina to help with things like yeast infections, &#8220;other genital issues,&#8221; and energy levels. &#8220;If you&#8217;re feeling depleted, go in the sun for an hour and see how much energy you get,&#8221; she suggested. &#8220;Or, if you live in a place that has heavy winters, when the sun finally comes out, spread your legs and get some sunshine.&#8221; There appears to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/perineum-sunning#research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">no medical backing<\/a> to this &#8220;health hack&#8221; (known as &#8220;perineum sunning&#8221;), and skincare professionals have advised against trying it due to the dangers of painful sunburn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to Into The Gloss in 2014, Shailene raved about ingesting clay, claiming that it &#8220;helps clean heavy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,1604,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-62884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-evergreen","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}