Family gathered to eat Christmas dinner.

Tips for mindful eating this festive season

As we draw nearer to the festive season you may find your social calendar filling up with invitations to events involving food, drinks, and late nights. While this is part of the festive cheer and socialising is, of course, fantastic for your well-being, some people find that after a few weekends of indulgent food, and a few too many glasses of wine, their digestion starts to feel a little off.

Christmas is a time to eat, drink, and be merry, but what if this leaves you feeling tired, bloated, and fuzzy-headed?

Could mindful eating help?

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Last updated on 5th February 2025 by cytoffice

Manifestation for well-being: Aligning the body, mind, and soul 

In such a fast-paced world, many of us are longing for well-being that goes beyond what we currently understand. One way to acheive this could be via the practice of manifestation. This week’s guest blogger and holistic health expert, Madison Brookes, credits manifestation with helping her heal from a chronic illness, and here she tells us how you can use it to enhance your own well-being.

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Last updated on 5th February 2025 by cytoffice

Rear view of a mid life woman running on a mountain range. She wears a red jacket and black running tights, the sun is shining and she is looking out across the top of the mountain range.

Nicotinamide riboside and longevity

Throughout the modern age, life expectancy has been steadily increasing, driven by advances in health care, and improvements in living and working conditions. Since approximately 2011 it has started to slow and current estimates are that now life expectancy has reduced to levels seen a decade earlier, suggesting we are becoming less healthy than we were. Modern science, medicine and technology have allowed us to live longer but are we living better?

The definition of longevity is living a longer and healthier life. It defines not only how long a person is going to live, but how healthy their later life will be. Longevity takes our wellbeing into old age into account and is a better a definition of health ageing than life expectancy.

Nicotinamide riboside (NR) is a nutrient which has gained much interest for supporting longevity. In this blog we will explore the functions of NR, how they impact longevity and look at some of the research behind its use for conditions associated with ageing.

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Last updated on 5th February 2025 by cytoffice