In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Women's Health (UK)

• know how
  For news and views to help make healthy a habit
• News you can use
  Want the latest health intel? We’ve combed the science journals so you don’t have to…
• Are gut microbiome tests worth the hype?
  The at-home tests have gone viral after finding an unlikely fan in the form of Paris Hilton. As we mark IBS Awareness Month, should you buy what the gut health industry is selling?
• I type too much
  Long days and dodgy desk set-ups can wreak havoc on our hands and wrists. But what’s going on when you develop work-related hand pain?
• Squat and snatch
  The single-arm dumbbell snatch ignites nearly every major muscle group from head to toe. Need we say more?
• Does it really work? Group coaching for self-sabotage
  Can a writer with a solitary approach to self-improvement benefit from six weeks of ‘sharing with the group’?
• Melatonin in skincare is trending. What are the benefits?
  Some recent reports are positively glowing about this hormone’s effect on the skin…
• Ask the fit squad
  Want to run further, lift heavier or nail a pull-up? Each month, we put your questions to the Women’s Health Collective panel – eight of the finest fitness brains – to help you make good on your goals
• Meet the squad
  The team share their favourite type of free weight
• The English way
  In the four years since she filmed herself making a salad from her locked-down kitchen, and launched a probiotic brand. But from cooking meals for her four siblings from the of disordered eating, her meteoric rise has been simmering for decades. As she Emily English has amassed more than a million followers, written a bestselling cookbook Bedford council state where she grew up to recovering from a debilitating episode prepares to publish book two, WH meets the woman behind the glossy grid posts
• eat smart
  For nutritional nous and macro-meeting food
• Spring chicken
  Eight ingredients, two baking trays, one high-protein meal that’s on the table in 30 minutes
• strong mind
  For building a mind as strong as your body
• How to set happier goals
  Successful goal-getting starts with smart goal-setting. Psychologist Sophie Mort has a strategy to scale more highs on the path to achievement
• This is your brain on menopause
  Dr Jessica Shepherd, a WH adviser, explains how your mind shifts during this body-altering phase in this excerpt from her book, Generation M: Living Well In Perimenopause And Menopause
• 4 ways to deal with brain fog
  While you may not be able to ‘cure’ it, there are strategies to limit its effect on your life
• Rediscovering your sense of purpose
  Menopause, like any major milestone, can be a time to take stock of where you’ve been, where you are now and where you want to go. As life circumstances change so, too, can your sense of purpose. Rather than a midlife crisis, what if you shifted your mindset and saw it as a midlife opportunity? The question is: how do I address the second half of my life? The answer can’t lie in anti-ageing but in contemplating how you want ageing to look and feel, and how you want to use your hard-won experience.
• ‘No one teaches you how to live with housemates, but it’s a relationship type of its own’
  With only the pipe dream of being in a financial position robust enough to moan about mortgage rates, a generation of thirtysomething renters are still fighting for ground in shared fridges. Here, one decadelong house-sharer details the mental toil of a home life divided by policies and personal boundaries
• Hypervigilance and houseshares: the expert view
  Dr Sandra Wheatley is a chartered psychologist at Potent Psychology
• best body
  For training tools that give your workouts a lift
• Walk this way
  Health-driven tactics to make every step go further
• ‘I broke my back playing rugby. Now, I play para ice hockey for Great Britain’
  For 36-year-old Dani Czernuszka - Watts, para ice hockey delivered a sense of belonging after a rugby tackle left her paralysed from the waist down
• Boxing
  This year, we’re coming in swinging. Whether it’s classic boxing or Muay Thai, it’s time to put your guard up with pieces that pack a punch.
• Football
  With the Women’s Euros in Switzerland this July, football fever is kicking off. This kit will take you from park to pub garden.
• Padel
  Our insatiable appetite for the racket sport has seen padel courts popping up faster than your serve. Ready to net some style points?
• Dance
  Dance as exercise has been on the rise since the early days of Covid. From ballet to breaking, here’s how to look the part while you feel the beat.
• Surfing
  If winter was about the slopes, summer is for the waves. Whether you’re braving the Blighty tides or in warmer waters, here’s how to make a splash.
• Hyrox
  First came CrossFit. Then we fell hard for F45. Now it’s the turn of Hyrox, the viral hybrid endurance competition, to capture our hearts…
• Best foot forward
  As a leading brand drops its new strength-training shoe, one long-time fan takes them for a spin – and a lift
• beauty lab
  For skin and hair that’s as healthy as you are
• How soon is now?
  Your retinol timeline
• THE PANDEMIC FIVE YEARS ON
  We suspect you know where you were, half a decade ago this spring, when then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the country to ‘stay home, protect the NHS, save lives’. But as research paints an increasingly detailed picture of the ways in which those years shaped everything from our health habits to our identities, academics are asking a different question: who were you back then? And who are you now?
• ‘Working mothers still feel pulled in a million different directions’
  Sandra Igwe, 35, mother-of-three and founder of The Motherhood Group – a social enterprise supporting Black maternal mental health – based in south-east London
• ‘Months of staring at my face on Zoom made me a shell of the person I was’
  Nikki Osman, 37, is editor of Women’s Health, based in London
• How to thrive in 2025
  If you’ve spent the years since the pandemic trying to find your way back to yourself, you’re not alone. Sara Kuburic, existential psychologist and the author of It’s On Me, shares some common issues – and how to tackle them
• ‘Friends were getting engaged while I was grieving a break-up’
  Nancy Best, 32, PT and founder of Ladies Who Crunch, based in London
• PMDD & ME
  PMS has long been belittled as a punchline in ‘joke’ greeting cards, but its most debilitating form is anything but funny, with up to a third of sufferers of premenstrual dysphoric disorder having tried to end their own life. To mark PMDD awareness month, one writer, and possible sufferer, tells her story - and asks if anything can be done, period
• Can you ‘control, alt, delete’ PMDD symptoms?
  Alternative therapies do have their place, say experts, but it’s crucial to explore them with a critical mind and support in place
• ‘Freezing my eggs wrecked me’
  The pandemic launched Adriene Mishler into the living rooms of millions. But behind the scenes, she was struggling – first with the hormonal repercussions of freezing her eggs, then with burnout
• ‘Competing had put me in a straitjacket’
  Jenna de León helped to motivate thousands of women in lockdown, but it was only after having a health scare that she got the reset she needed
• ‘Being a mum brings out the best and worst in you’
  When a pandemic pregnancy triggered childhood trauma, Hannah Bower had suicidal thoughts. She’s learned a lot about motherhood and herself
• ‘I felt like my body was failing me’
  Forced to pivot careers, Danyele Wilson found her relationship with her body was broken. Now, she’s rebuilding it while modelling a better approach
• ‘It took me a decade to reconnect with my body’
  After following fitness trends for years, Ajahzi Gardner finally learned to embrace her individuality – and she’s on a mission to help others do the same
• JOURNEYS IN SOUND
  From relentless optimisation to the insatiable hunger for new trends, wellness culture can be… a lot. But could a delve back into the ancient ways of spiritual, mental and physical wellbeing be an effective balm? One writer takes a trip to Sri Lanka for a sensory immersion into historic sonic healing practices
• Rest and digest
  Food and travel go together like cacio e pepe and pinot noir. And with the wellness travel market growing faster than your bucket list, breaks are being cooked up to satiate your appetite
• Fearne Cotton
  The podcaster and author on making wellness inclusive and why she’s carving out time for fun