Category: Health
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The best functional drinks to try – and why they’re top of our shopping list
Who knew all you needed to stay functional was a drink? If you’re new to functional drinks, they’re usually canned (often sparkling) drinks infused with ingredients like electrolytes, magnesium, vitamin C or adaptogens. They’re designed to give you more energy, help you calm down, or even support your gut health – depending on the brand.…
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LERÉI is the new £1,000-a-month women-only wellness club opening in Knightsbridge
London is getting another luxury wellness destination, but LERÉI is taking the private-club approach. The new women-only wellness residence in Knightsbridge is bringing fitness, recovery, beauty and longevity services together under one roof, with membership starting from £1,000 a month. Limited to just 150 women, LERÉI is designed to feel more like a private residence…
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Creatine is the UK’s most-searched supplement – a nutritionist explains why
Creatine went mainstream in 1992, when British Olympic gold medallists Linford Christie and Sally Gunnell were revealed to have used it ahead of their wins in Barcelona. More than three decades later, it’s still one of the most recognisable supplements around – and it’s now taken gold on the UK supplements podium. Creatine has overtaken…
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Meet the women who want you to poo better (and talk about it more)
Holly and Joely didn’t set out to build a brand around bowel movements. But after nearly two decades of Holly’s own unexplained symptoms – and a beauty industry career spent making uncomfortable subjects feel normal – that’s exactly what they did. WE ARE. REGULAR. is the result: a gut-health brand that talks about poo loudly,…
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The naked truth about dry brushing: is it really worth it, and how can you do it properly?
Scroll through TikTok or Instagram (or just ask a friend) and you’ll quickly find dry brushing being credited with everything from “detoxing” the body and boosting lymphatic drainage to reducing cellulite and transforming the appearance of your skin. The ritual itself looks simple: take a firm-bristled brush, sweep it across dry skin before showering, and…
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Weight a minute: Are you doing strength training right?
We’ve all collectively largerly moved past the “summer body” scramble – and thank goodness for that. Following a recent survey, fitness professionals found that clients are no longer driven primarily by how they look, but by how they live, with longevity and healthy aging now outpacing traditional physique goals as the fastest-growing client priority. Cardio…
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Inside Mayfair’s stunning new Virgin Active social wellness club
Virgin Active has reopened its Mayfair Club, and calling it a refurb undersells what’s actually changed. This is the brand’s first UK Social Wellness Club – its most ambitious project to date, previously only seen in Milan, Cape Town, Sydney and Doha – and it’s built on a fairly simple idea: a gym doesn’t need…
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The best (and worst) running bras for women, tried and tested
Few things are more uncomfortable than a sports bra that doesn’t offer enough support when you’re on the move. The last thing you want is a strap that won’t stay put, sweat pooling under your chest, or a bra that requires an army to wrestle off after a run. Ideally, you want something that looks…
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Drowning in fitness data? Here’s what AI can actually fix
The fitness app on your phone almost certainly knows more about you than your GP does. Sleep stages, stress load, energy levels, calories in, calories out, HRV trends, step streaks, hydration logs – most platforms have spent the last few years competing to track more of you, not less. Thanks to that, the average gym-goer…
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Could Japanese superfood natto be the solution our gut needs?
It’s sticky, pungent, slimy, and – let’s be honest – somewhat off-putting. But is has been a breakfast staple in Japan for over a thousand years, and now, natto is making its way to the other side of the world. By now, most of us know that our gut matters. We’ve swapped diet coke for…
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