Rebecca Rittenhouse has famously played an OG/BYN on The Mindy Project and an intuitive on Maggie, but for the actress, it was the development of an autoimmune condition in her ‘20s that taught her most about how to balance her health with natural remedies.
“[I started suffering from an autoimmune disease] where my tendons would swell for no reason—I couldn’t close my watch on my wrist all of a sudden, but I hadn’t gained a lot of weight. Doctors were telling me that I should be on an immunosuppressant, but I really didn’t want to go down that path. So I started researching what helped people in the autoimmune community and seeing an integrative medicine doctor, who has been really helpful in guiding me in terms of honing in on effective supplements for me,” she says. “It’s kept me from taking a million different supplements because you can go down this road where you’re taking 25 pills a day and left wondering: What is this even doing?”
Today, she’s a pro at navigating the deep bench of wellness options available to balance her mind, body and spirit, which is why we met up with the True Botanical partner at Los Angeles’s most L.A. spot for wellness (and home to $22, so-called beauty smoothies, co-created by the likes of Hailey Bieber and Chris Appleton)—Erewhon Market—to shop the shelves of what Rittenhouse calls a “supplement powerhouse.” Ahead, find her favorite picks for skin care, ingestibles and more.
