Doctors Want Gwyneth Paltrow To Stop Encouraging Women To Steam Their Vaginas

Oh Gwyneth Paltrow, we've all just got our heads round consciously dog-walking and vegan approved, carb-free candle making and now we must do WHAT to our lady parts?!

In a recent blog post on Gwynny-P's lifestyle site Goop, she extolls the virtues of something even more bizarre than her "sex dust" products.

Gwyneth would advise us all to go in for some regular vaginal steaming.

Yep, you heard that right - she'd like you to have your labia steamed on the reg.

Writing for her site, the 42-year-old actress said of a recent steam treatment: "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."

GULP.

However, before you set off in search of the nearest mugwort field, be warned that doctors do not approve of Gwyneth's passion for steaming her uterus.

Doctor Jen Gunter, OB/GYN (a.k.a. vagina expert), has written an interesting blog post, essentially telling women to hold their horses now and stop taking medical advice from actresses.

Doctor Gunter had this to say in her post:

"Don't.

The vagina (and uterus and vulva for that matter) should be viewed as self-cleaning ovens. We know that douching is harmful, heck, even seminal fluid can be harmful (exposure to multiple partners without condoms is a major risk factor for imbalance of the vaginal ecosystem). The upper and lower reproductive tracts have very intricate mechanisms for regulating local health and they are very easy to mess with. It’s a delicate garden, if you will. So one needs to be thoughtful, nay conscious about what one uses in said garden."

"The lactobacilli strains that keep vaginas healthy are very finicky about their environment and raising the temperature with steam and whatever infrared nonsense Paltrow means is likely not beneficial and is potentially harmful."

Her thoughts on Gwyneth are really quite damning:

"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 or cold) does not magically wander from the vagina into the uterus."

So there you go folks, we can take two things from Doctor Gunter's little update:

Do your research (and possibly a bit of biology) if you're going to preach advice to the general public.

Don't steam your vagina.

Just....don't.

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What do you reckon to Gwyneth's little steaming excursion? Is it the last thing on earth you'd do or are you intrigued? Let us know in the comments!