Welltodo Today: Miracle ‘Exercise’ Pill, Anti-Fatigue Beauty, Virtual Reality & Fitness

Today’s key global wellness news articles from around the world, impacting the industry and influencing the business of wellness.

At L’Oréal, it’s full speed ahead on sustainability

This Saturday is Earth Day, a global celebration that brings attention to environmental protection needs and initiatives. To coincide with the event, L’Oréal has release its 2016 progress report on the company’s sustainability efforts-known collectively as Sharing Beauty with All.

Ren has launched a new anti-fatigue beauty range | Stylus Curve

The British skincare brand’s new products, which arrive in a wellness-dominated climate, tap into modern concerns about sleep, stress and tiredness.

SoulCycle on a Plane? This Airbus Concept Would Have Us Spinning Through the Air

Your new #flightgoals could include spinning at 30,000 feet. Airbus’ Silicon Valley-based A3 team, developers of “Transpose” plug-and-play cabins, have partnered with Peleton and Reebok to deliver a state-of-the-art cycling gym to the skies. The module, revealed at San Jose Airport Monday, would include spinning cycles and a resistance exercise area letting passengers stretch their tired muscles and get the blood flowing on long-haul journeys.

Get Ready for Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop ‘Wellness Summit’

Less than a year ago, Gwyneth Paltrow crushed Goop devotees and sent lifestyle content machines into a panicked tailspin when she suggested she was stepping back from her lifestyle brand.

Meet The Muslim Woman Who Inspired Nike To Enter The Hijab Business

It was two years ago when Amna Al Haddad, while training for the Rio summer Olympics, got the call: Nike wanted to sponsor her and give her a starring role in its “Inner Strength” series featuring inspiring athletes.

Why we’re all going to be drinking clear coffee

There’s an element of optical illusion to the latest drink fuelling Londoners. It looks like water but it is in fact coffee. It comes in bottles and can be drunk cold on the go, or made into cocktails. Best of all, it won’t stain.

4 Stocks Caught In The Athleisure Trend

What is the fate of the athleisure trend? If athleisure has peaked, growth may not be as easy in the future as it was in the past for all companies in this category. And the stocks have suffered. All retail in general has suffered, athletic leisure in particular.

Virtual Reality Hits the Gym

Johannes Scholl is betting virtual reality can keep people excited about working out. Scholl’s startup, Munich-based , has developed a VR exercise machine that delivers a core workout by making it seem like users are flying and deep-ocean diving. About 200 gyms and entertainment centers from London to Tokyo have installed the $10,000 machines.

Miracle ‘exercise pill’ could be used to mimic the effect of going to the gym

Although the research was conducted in mice, the team hopes that further down the road it will lead to human treatments. Lead researcher Dr Joshua Butcher, from Augusta University in Georgia, US, said: “Ultimately, the goal of our research would be to create a pill that mimics the effect of exercise and protects against obesity.