Nico

17/06/2026

and - we’ owe you an apology.

I said Hawkstone would spike his glucose but I was wrong.

Most non alcholic lagers create big glucose spikes with none of the fun. So I did an experiment - same meal, same beer while wearing a glucose sensor. And my glucose was nearly flat as a result.

I chose the same meal Protein, real food, lettuce wrap instead of the bun. That’s 37g of glucose molecules he skipped. His circulation only normally keeps around 5g of glucose in at one time.

They’ve created an almost spike-free zero alcohol lager and aren’t shouting about it.

Fitting timing: the brand finally got a TV ad approved, it airs tonight before the England game.

10/06/2026

The scale says you’ve lost 10kg. It can’t tell you what you’ve lost.

Arthur at Scanletics runs DEXA scans - the gold standard for understanding body composition. asked him whether he’s seeing any evidence of what the headlines are catching up with: people on synthetic GLP-1 drugs dropping weight fast, but a worrying chunk of it is muscle.

That matters more as you age. Muscle is your metabolic sink; it’s what keeps you strong, mobile and burning glucose well into your 70s and 80s.
What we’ve seen with our members on these medications backs him up. The ones who do well treat the drug as a window, and use it to build the eating and strength habits that hold when the prescription ends. Protein first. Resistance training non-negotiable. Data to check what’s actually changing under the skin.

The number on the scale was never the full story. Knowing what you’re losing is.

🎥 Arthur, Scanletics London

10/06/2026

Everyone’s talking about Jeremy Clarkson giving up meat to save his life. But he already showed us what he’s really doing - he filmed it in a Five Guys.

He’s done something really smart here. Prioritised protein, eaten the real food on offer including fibre, and cut the hidden sugar by swapping the bun for a lettuce wrap. That’s 37g of carbs he just didn’t eat.

The real driver of heart disease isn’t fat or meat. It’s years of glucose overload: chronically elevated blood sugar, chronic insulin response, arterial inflammation.

He’s figured that out. He just hasn’t looked at what’s in the glass yet. Non-alcoholic beer still spikes your blood glucose… it’s one of the tougher discoveries many Nico members make when they wear a glucose sensor!!

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.

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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.