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Choosing a weight loss programme? Looking for ways to stay healthy on holidays? Find helpful tips and advice to navigate your lifestyle changes here.

The best weight-loss injections in 2025 are Mounjaro, Wegovy, and Saxenda. Research shows that Mounjaro leads to the most significant weight loss of the 3.

The best weight-loss injections in 2025

The best weight-loss injections in 2025 are Mounjaro, Wegovy, and Saxenda. Research shows that Mounjaro leads to the most significant weight loss of the 3.

You can take Mounjaro with COPD, but it's essential to lose weight slowly and continue other COPD treatments. Find out more in our latest guide.

Can you take Mounjaro with COPD?

You can take Mounjaro with COPD, but it's essential to lose weight slowly and continue other COPD treatments. Find out more in our latest guide.

You can take Mounjaro with multiple sclerosis but you should lose weight slowly and continue to monitor your symptoms with your healthcare team.

Can you take Mounjaro with multiple sclerosis (MS)?

You can take Mounjaro with multiple sclerosis but you should lose weight slowly and continue to monitor your symptoms with your healthcare team.

You can take Mounjaro with rheumatoid arthritis as research suggests it can improve markers of inflmmation and lower pain. Find out more here.

Can you take Mounjaro with rheumatoid arthritis?

You can take Mounjaro with rheumatoid arthritis as research suggests it can improve markers of inflmmation and lower pain. Find out more here.

Nutrition

PCOS is a complicated chronic condition, and everyone's experience will be different. But good science suggests a lower-carb diet can help; here's why.

The best PCOS diet

PCOS is a complicated chronic condition, and everyone's experience will be different. But good science suggests a lower-carb diet can help; here's why.

Weight-loss shakes and meal replacement diets can lead to rapid weight loss in the short-term, but they often fail to support long-term weight loss.

Do weight loss shakes work?

Weight-loss shakes and meal replacement diets can lead to rapid weight loss in the short-term, but they often fail to support long-term weight loss.

Ultra-processed foods are bad for you because they bypass your hunger-regulation network and lead to weight gain. Find out more here.

Why are ultra-processed foods bad for you?

Ultra-processed foods are bad for you because they bypass your hunger-regulation network and lead to weight gain. Find out more here.

Blog

How much does Ozempic cost? Where can you buy it? Should you be on Ozempic? Find out all the information you need on Ozempic before purchasing.

Robbie Puddick

Ozempic cost

You can no longer buy Ozempic online in the UK for weight loss under new regulations introduced in the Autumn of 2023. What other options are there?
Ozempic is no longer available in the UK for weight-loss prescriptions

Robbie Puddick

You can get Ozempic on prescription in the NHS if you're currently living with type 2 diabetes. Ozempic is no longer available for weight loss.
Can you get Ozempic on the NHS?

Robbie Puddick

Microdosing Ozempic isn't clinically recommended in the UK. Ozempic is only approved people living with type 2 diabetes and can't be used for weight loss.
Should you microdose Ozempic?

Robbie Puddick

Diabetes

It's possible to put type 2 diabetes into remission. Learn the most effective way to reverse diabetes and why for some people this may not be possible.

Can type 2 diabetes be reversed or cured?

It's possible to put type 2 diabetes into remission. Learn the most effective way to reverse diabetes and why for some people this may not be possible.

Insulin resistance is the condition underlying type 2 diabetes and your personal fat threshold. Read our four evidence-based ways to improve it here.

How to increase your personal fat threshold

Insulin resistance is the condition underlying type 2 diabetes and your personal fat threshold. Read our four evidence-based ways to improve it here.

There are many factors that will determine your personal fat threshold, but insulin resistance may the key to understanding when this will happen.

Insulin resistance and the personal fat threshold

There are many factors that will determine your personal fat threshold, but insulin resistance may the key to understanding when this will happen.

Exercise

Losing weight with exercise can be tougher than people think. Here's 8 ways to guarantee successful weight loss with exercise.

A beginner’s guide to weight loss with exercise

Losing weight with exercise can be tougher than people think. Here's 8 ways to guarantee successful weight loss with exercise.

Exercise for weight loss is always promoted as a primary recommendation, but does it actually work? The short answer is no, find out why.

Exercise for weight loss: Does it work?

Exercise for weight loss is always promoted as a primary recommendation, but does it actually work? The short answer is no, find out why.

Walk down your path to health. Here's how walking can aid weight loss, increase your productivity, improve your sleep, and decrease your stress levels.

Walking — the first steps on your weight loss journey

Walk down your path to health. Here's how walking can aid weight loss, increase your productivity, improve your sleep, and decrease your stress levels.

Recipes

Learn how to cook your own healthy and satisfying meals using the latest recipes from Second Nature - developed and curated by our nutritionists and dietitians.

Cooking for your children every day can be tiring. Brigthen your day with these healthy recipes suitable for yourself and your little ones.

10 Easy and Healthy Family Recipes

Cooking for your children every day can be tiring. Brigthen your day with these healthy recipes suitable for yourself and your little ones.

Seitan is a rich source of protein with around 20g per 100g. Try swapping this in as a meat subsitute in some of your favourite meals!

Homemade seitan | Plant-based protein

Seitan is a rich source of protein with around 20g per 100g. Try swapping this in as a meat subsitute in some of your favourite meals!

Tempeh is an excellent vegan source of protein with around 20g per 100g. Try this delicious plant-based twist on a classic recipe!

Mushroom and Tempeh Stroganoff

Tempeh is an excellent vegan source of protein with around 20g per 100g. Try this delicious plant-based twist on a classic recipe!

Want to get your day off the to the perfect start? Try our delicious plant-based chia pudding to keep your energy levels steady throughout the morning.

Vegan chia pudding with mango

Want to get your day off the to the perfect start? Try our delicious plant-based chia pudding to keep your energy levels steady throughout the morning.

Fancy trying a plant-based alternative to your Friday night burgers? Look no further, our nutritionists have put this together and it doesn't disappoint.

Vegan black bean burgers

Fancy trying a plant-based alternative to your Friday night burgers? Look no further, our nutritionists have put this together and it doesn't disappoint.

Try our delicious tofu scrambled eggs as a plant-based alternative! This has been developed buy our in-house nutritionists and it doesn't disappoint.

Vegan tofu scrambled eggs

Try our delicious tofu scrambled eggs as a plant-based alternative! This has been developed buy our in-house nutritionists and it doesn't disappoint.

Mind

Have you reached a 'stalemate' on your weight loss journey, despite keeping up healthy habits? Learn why this happens and what it means for weight loss.

Weight-loss plateaus explained

Have you reached a 'stalemate' on your weight loss journey, despite keeping up healthy habits? Learn why this happens and what it means for weight loss.

Learn how to identify the reason why your weight-loss might be stalling. Tips to push through a weight-loss plateau and achieve your weight-loss goal.

How do I get past a weight loss plateau?

Learn how to identify the reason why your weight-loss might be stalling. Tips to push through a weight-loss plateau and achieve your weight-loss goal.

Do you think that you use food as a comfort? Learn what defines emotional eating and why we crave particular foods when we're ovwhelmed or emotional.

What is emotional eating?

Do you think that you use food as a comfort? Learn what defines emotional eating and why we crave particular foods when we're ovwhelmed or emotional.

Sleep

High-quality sleep can be a great foundation for a healthy lifestyle. It can also help to boost your fertility, find out how here.

Sleep and female fertility

High-quality sleep can be a great foundation for a healthy lifestyle. It can also help to boost your fertility, find out how here.

We all know sleep is important but how sleep influences our weight, emotions, and the risk of developing chronic disease is much more interesting.

Why is sleep important?

We all know sleep is important but how sleep influences our weight, emotions, and the risk of developing chronic disease is much more interesting.

Learn how to improve your sleep quality and wake up feeling energised. Evidence-based, practical steps to help you sleep better.

How to sleep better

Learn how to improve your sleep quality and wake up feeling energised. Evidence-based, practical steps to help you sleep better.

Make losing weight feel Second Nature

The first step on your Second Nature journey is to take our health quiz.

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