Ashwagandha for Stress in 2026: 491 Adults, Eight Weeks and a UK Safety Review Still Unfinished
Ashwagandha is being sold to stressed-out Britons as a calming herb while the government’s food watchdog still can’t say what
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Thursday, November 12, 2026
Latest:
- IV Vitamin Drip Season Is Back for Christmas 2026: £100 to £700 a Bag, Three Banned Adverts and the People Who Actually Need One
- London Jazz Festival 2026: 300 Gigs From £24, a Sold-Out Lunchtime and the £80.50 Coltrane Ticket I’d Skip
- Reformer Pilates vs Mat Pilates in 2026: £45 a Class Against £12, and Which One the Back-Pain Evidence Actually Backs
- Cosy Living Room Lighting Ideas for Winter 2026: What £100 of Lamps Fixes, and Why the Big Light Isn’t the Villain
- Netflix vs BBC Viewing 2026: Why a One-Point Lead Is Not the Story, and ITVX’s 3.6 Billion Streams Is
Health & Beauty
How Much Protein Do You Need in 2026? The 45g Answer the Supermarket Protein Boom Would Rather You Missed
A woman weighing 60kg needs about 45g of protein a day. That’s the official NHS-backed figure, and it’s roughly what
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Zone 2 Cardio in 2026: 14 Experts Have Only Just Agreed What It Is – and a Sports Medicine Review Says Harder Training Builds More Fitness
This zone 2 cardio piece has been merged into our full UK zone 2 training guide, covering the evidence, intervals, heart-rate zones and who actually benefits.
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Hyrox Injuries in 2026: What Two New Studies Say About Knees, Tendons and Who Should Steer Clear
Three in ten Hyrox athletes had some kind of health problem in any given week of training. That’s not a
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Intermittent Fasting for Weight Loss in 2026: Cochrane Pooled 22 Trials and 1,995 Adults – and Found It Beat Ordinary Dieting by Nothing
“Intermittent fasting just doesn’t seem to work for overweight or obese adults trying to lose weight.” That’s the lead author
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Creatine for Women in 2026: Two 2-Year Trials Found No Bone Benefit – and Who Should Still Take 3g a Day
Creatine for women is being sold as a bone-builder, a brain booster and a menopause fix. Two of the longest
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SAD Lamps in 2026: One Trial Puts Them Level With Fluoxetine, Only 46 People Test Prevention – and What to Buy Before the Clocks Go Back on 25 October
A trial that put a light box up against a course of fluoxetine found the lamp did just as well.
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Vitamin D Supplement in Autumn 2026: The NHS Says Start Now, but 10 Micrograms Is All the Evidence Supports
By the end of winter, almost four in ten British girls aged 11 to 18 fall below the blood level
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Are Seed Oils Bad For You? What the Evidence Actually Shows in 2026
Sunflower oil is the cooking oil in more British kitchen cupboards than any other, and for the best part of
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Do Vibration Plates Work? 20 Trials Found No Fat Loss – the 2026 Evidence, and the 4 People Who Should Still Stand on One
Twenty randomised trials. 585 people. And when researchers pooled them last year, vibration plate training on its own made no
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