Welltodo Today: Peloton Launches Boxing, Beauty Brands Tap Into Gut Health, Gyms Demonstrate Covid Safety

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

How Gut Health Became Beauty’s Latest Arena

The digestive system is getting a makeover. At least, it’s become a focal point for the beauty industry, which has seen a boom in products designed to improve gut health, like probiotics (often referred to as “good” bacteria that is said to help regulate the gut and digestive system) over the past year.

Peloton Needs To Punch Up the Power, But It Will Take More Than ‘Shadow Boxing’

Peloton, the pandemic poster child has hit the skids. Subscription rates are down, and subscribers are working out less frequently, down from a high of twenty-six times per month to its current 16.6 times. In early November it adjusted its fiscal 2022 sales to $4.4 billion, down from the previous quarter, when they had been predicting revenue of $5.4 billion.

Lululemon earnings top estimates, but shares fall after retailer cuts forecast for Mirror sales

Lululemon’s stock gave up gains in extended trading Thursday after the company slashed its sales expectations for Mirror, the at-home fitness device it acquired last year. The athletic apparel maker reported fiscal third-quarter earnings and sales ahead of analysts’ estimates, prompting it to boost its full-year outlook.

Health clubs are controlling COVID – sector reports less than one case per 100k visits since April reopening

The number of positive COVID-19 cases among people who have visited health clubs, leisure centres and swimming pools in the UK continues to be at “extremely low levels”. Figures published by UK Active – covering the period since gyms reopened (12 April 2021) to 21 November 2021 – show an overall rate of 0.83 cases per 100,000 visits.

These 9 Sustainable Startups Are Fixing Our Food System

Who’s leading the way forward in fixing our food system? These nine startups are making big progress. Last year during the Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit, nine exciting Asia-based startups pitched their sustainable technologies aimed at building up our food system’s resilience to crises in the post-pandemic world.

Vegamour hair care charts path toward ‘hair wellness’ category

Vegamour hair care launched outside of its core hair loss and hair growth treatments as it seeks to build upon a “hair wellness” category.