Nico

22/05/2026

Dr Louise Newson is one of the UK’s leading menopause specialists. Her perimenopause was diagnosed by her daughter.

She’s a menopause specialist. One of the most prominent voices in the UK. And even she didn’t recognise it in herself until her child said: mummy, you’re so argumentative — do you think if you had a period your mood might improve?

That’s the thing about perimenopause. It doesn’t announce itself with hot flushes and night sweats for most women. It turns up as irritability, brain fog, a shift in who you feel like. And by the time the pattern’s obvious, months have passed.

Dr Newson’s new book goes into exactly this,the hormonal changes that most doctors still dismiss, and what women can actually do about them. Worth reading.

Sign up to our newsletter to learn more: link in bio.

21/05/2026

As a man, you just get in a cab. As a woman, Amy’s running a safety audit before she even closes the door.

The amount of things a woman has to think about when getting a taxi is overwhelming. It’s just one illustration of a woman’s mental load when it comes to personal safety.

Last night and asked a room what safety considerations they have when getting a taxi.

The men had nothing. No list. No protocol.

The women all had a huge list.

Men, we need to do better. Why was Nico there? We’re about helping people become better. Part of our mission is to reduce people’s stress and mental load. This event was an eye-opener.

Visit hassl.uk to learn more.

16/05/2026

15/05/2026

This weekend, Sam hosts the Public Health Collaboration’s 10th anniversary conference in London.

Nourish to Flourish, two days of world-class speakers on women’s health, men’s health, teenage health, and children’s health.

We’re proud to be a sponsor, and we’ll be at the Dietary Advice Panel. Come find us. Ask us anything.

The lineup:
— NYT bestselling author, The Big Fat Surprise
Dr David Unwin — the GP helping people reverse type 2 diabetes drug-free
— biohacking pioneer, Sunday Times No.1 author
— neuroscientist
— the UK’s leading voice on women’s hormones
— Wales international, founder of
— 250K followers, fighting for real food
— nutrition expert, founder of The Keto Pro
Dr Wafaa Abdel-Hadi — clinical oncologist & functional medicine doctor
Prof Richard J Johnson — 900+ papers on sugar, uric acid & metabolic disease
Dr Eric Westman — Duke University’s low carb pioneer
Dr Isabella Cooper — ketosis and cellular health researcher
And more.
The Light, Euston, London. 16–17 May.

06/05/2026

Your glucose response isn’t a fixed number. It’s a moving target.

The same meal, eaten at the same time, on different days, can produce a completely different glucose curve — depending on how hydrated you are, what you ate the night before, how stressed you’ve been, where you are in your cycle.

A questionnaire can’t capture that. A prediction model built on population averages can’t capture that. Only live data can.
Over 1,000 data points a day. Personalised coaching built around what your body is actually doing — not what an algorithm thinks it should do.

If you want real guidance from real data, you want Nico. Not the yellow brand. That’s for seeds.

30/04/2026

61 years.

That’s how long the average person in the UK can expect to live in good health. Retirement age is 66.

The Health Foundation just published data ranking the UK second-worst out of 21 wealthy nations for how fast that healthy life expectancy figure is falling. We’re only behind the United States.

People aren’t dying younger. They’re spending more years alive in worse health.

The fatigue, the stubborn weight, the sleep that doesn’t refresh you — a lot of us in midlife accept this as the natural cost of getting older. The research says it isn’t. Poor diet, chronic stress, poor sleep, insulin resistance that builds quietly over years — these aren’t inevitable. They’re addressable.

61 is the average because the average person was too busy to understand what was happening in their body and act on it.
You don’t have to land there. Even if you’ve hit 61, there’s still meaningful ground to win back.

29/04/2026

This is the most underrated cognitive tool you own.
Use it.

28/04/2026

Totally fan-girl-stumbled into the desk of the founders of in their office today. They reacted by handing me free samples - natural marketers! (or just good seeing off unwanted attention from middle aged men)

26/03/2026

62% of UK divorces are initiated by women in their 40s, 50s and 60s.

Joe Warner says this lines up so closely with the perimenopause window that calling it coincidence takes some effort. What makes his perspective interesting is where he's coming from: 20 years in fitness media, former editor of Men's Fitness, someone who has spent his career writing about male physiology and performance.

When he went looking for a resource that explained menopause to men clearly and practically, there wasn't one. So he wrote it. 73% of women say menopause played some part in why their marriage broke down.

His book launched today: Burning Up, Frozen Out.

26/03/2026

Elevenses exists because most breakfasts don't actually work.

Toast, cereal, a quick pastry, they all do the same thing: push glucose up fast, bring it back down fast, and leave you rummaging through the kitchen by 10am. Helen, a Nico member, had this exact pattern for years. She switched to a protein-heavy breakfast and the mid-morning hunger just stopped. Not because she was trying harder. Because her glucose wasn't crashing. The body doesn't crave food for no reason. It craves it because something earlier put it on that path. Want to know what a stable breakfast looks like for your metabolism? DM us "breakfast" and we'll send you the guide.