Many people with autoimmune conditions across the UK are facing difficult decisions about funding complementary therapies. In the final episode of the series, Guardian journalist Richard Sprenger, who has multiple sclerosis, looks at how access to wellness therapies is under threat amid an acute cost of living crisis – and meets an NHS consultant in Devon championing a more progressive, integrative approach to holistic healthcare

Richard Sprenger goes down the wellness rabbit hole to find out why the industry has become linked with conspiracy theories. Therapists discuss how mistrust of conventional medicine appears to have grown in the wake of the pandemic, while a familiar face from earlier in the series points to the inevitable end point of such alternative thinking 

Despite being labelled problematic, alternative medicines have plenty of anecdotal support. But mainstream acceptance remains out of reach for many wellness treatments. Guardian journalist Richard Sprenger, who has multiple sclerosis, dips his toe into a range of therapies in the hope of figuring out how they work, if they work, and whether they might benefit him

Guardian journalist Richard Sprenger, who has multiple sclerosis, looks at where modern healthy eating has come from in the second episode of his series, a sceptic's guide to wellness 

With autoimmune diseases on the rise around the world, ever greater numbers of people are turning to the booming wellness industry to help manage these incurable conditions outside of conventional science. The Guardian journalist Richard Sprenger, who has multiple sclerosis, goes on a journey into the heart of this industry to see if it can cure his natural scepticism – and perhaps even the condition itself?