The biggest nutrition trends for 2025: From NAD+ to carb-cycling
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Christmas has come and gone, and as we enter the New Year, it’s the perfect time to invest in your health and wellness. And whether you want to turbocharge flagging energy levels, or eat your way to enhanced weight loss, there’s a nutrition trend or a secret ingredient that promises to get you there faster.
Here’s our pick of the 2025 wellness aids you need to know about. The buzz around Ozempic and other GLP-1 weight loss drugs is going nowhere. With the NHS rumoured to start prescribing Mounjaro to patients who fit their criteria from as early as March, we’re likely to see an enormous surge of GLP-1 interest in 2025. But as popularity in weight loss jabs piques, research into natural alternatives that mimic the GLP-1 hormone is also catching on, so don’t be surprised when your social media feeds are highjacked with natural GLP-1 foods promising the Ozempic effect.
Polyphenol antioxidants are one of the food categories that come top of the list. The natural plant compound works by increasing the GLP-1 hormone and is found in everyday foods like apples, spinach and asparagus. Polyphenols work by stimulating the L-cells in the gut to increase our natural secretion of GLP-1 to slow gastric-emptying and stimulate fullness. Try to include as many brightly coloured fruits and vegetables (at least seven portions) everyday to reap the GLP-1 rewards pen-free in 2025.
Powering up our plates with protein has been a trend for quite some time now, whether to support workouts or maintain muscle mass as the years roll by. But now fibre - once the unsung hero of the nutrition world is being catapulted into centre stage to help maintain health later on in life.
