Wholesome World is a new app (approved by the NHS) that has launched to assist all of your nutritional and home health understanding, alongside pushing the awareness of authorised medicinal research. The app came about after founder, Freyja Hanstein, lost her husband to abdominal Synovial Sarcoma cancer in 2014 and she herself was diagnosed with a brain tumour the following year. In this blog, Freyja shares how the lifestyle app started, and how cold water swimming helped her along the way.

Wim Hof believes that embracing the cold has the ability to change anyone’s life for the better. In this blog, we learn more about how cold exposure has enabled him to advance scientific understanding of the human body. Plus, accomplish extraordinary feats of human endurance, including 21 Guinness World Records. 

We all hear about nutrition and how exercise and diet are necessities for living a healthy lifestyle, but how often do we hear about nutrition specifically for cold water swimming? Eating the correct food before and after a swim can have a huge impact on both performance and recovery – whether you’re a professional swimmer, or a more casual dipper. In this blog, we gain the expert opinion of Robbie Hudson, one of The Wild Swimming Brothers.

It’s no secret that cold water swimming has a huge number of health benefits. Many people in the UK have been using it as a means to regulate physical and emotional health for some time, which begs the question – why isn’t it offered on the NHS as an alternative to prescription medication and therapy?

The Vitamin Sea Collective is a new community united by the positive benefits of the ocean. Started up by the same team behind SurfGirl, we decided to learn more about the work these women are doing and what inspired them to launch last October.

Cornwall based nutritional therapist and cold water swimmer Grace Kingswell tells us how spending time outdoors has a positive impact on human health. Grace explains the science behind light exposure and why she swims at sunrise.

Yoga teacher and wellbeing coach Florence Gould from Bewaved tells us all about how yoga can make us better swimmers. Flo explains how we can improve flexibility and strength whilst also relieving pressure in the upper body and spine. In this blog, find out which areas of the body are most affected by swimming and the best poses for taking care of them.

We caught up with Alice Field, Project Officer from Surfers Against Sewage recently to learn all about the Safer Seas Service App. The Safer Seas Service offers real-time data on water quality in UK bathing waters, to keep us safe from pollution. Keep reading to learn everything you need to know about sewage pollution, the app and to find answers to the questions you sent us last month.

Dr Heather Massey has conducted numerous research projects surrounding the impacts of cold water on the human body, provided physiological research to support to the Royal Navy’s fitness testing programme and is a keen open water swimmer. In this blog, she answers our questions on what happens to the body when it is immersed in cold water.

For anyone spending time in the water there is a risk of both Swimmer’s Ear and Surfer’s Ear – particularly in cold water and during the winter months. Each of these conditions has different causes and symptoms which will be outlined in this blog, but both can be extremely painful. However, like all things, by taking the necessary precautions risk can be averted.