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Daily Rituals
Vitamin D in autumn and winter: what UK women are advised to do
The clocks have changed, the sun is lower, and NHS advice is to consider a small daily supplement. Here is what that means in practice.
All articles · Issue №01
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Trying & Pregnancy
Pregnancy, iron, and the tiredness no one warned you about
Why iron quietly determines half of how you'll feel through pregnancy and the months after — and how to top up without a supplement that wrecks your stomach.
7 min · 25 April 2026Read - 03
Postpartum & Feeding
The postpartum energy myth
Why 'bouncing back' is the worst nutrition advice a new mother is given — and what genuinely rebuilds energy in the first year.
8 min · 21 April 2026Read - 04
Thyroid & Autoimmune
When tiredness isn't laziness, it's your thyroid
How to tell whether your fatigue, weight gain and brain fog might be a slow thyroid — and the nutrition that quietly supports your medication.
7 min · 18 April 2026Read - 05
Weight & Long Life
The case against the daily weigh-in
Why a weekly average tells the truth your morning scale never will — and how to use the number without letting it run your day.
7 min · 14 April 2026Read - 06
Midlife & Menopause
Protein after 40, in plain English
How much you actually need, where to find it, and why it quietly becomes one of the most important things on your plate from your forties onwards.
8 min · 7 April 2026Read - 07
Daily Rituals
A grown-up look at breakfast
Skip it, savour it, or rebuild it — and what the evidence actually says about the most over-mythologised meal of the day.
6 min · 31 March 2026Read - 08
Emotional Eating
When food is the comfort
On the hunger that isn't hunger — and how to meet it without shame, restriction, or another set of rules to break.
9 min · 24 March 2026Read
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