☆ Your invited to our Pilates event, a study shows AI is ruining your brain, 5 cosy oat bowls worth trying

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Hey lovely,

Jasmine here, Editor of Daily Rituals, back with your Wellness Dose.

Before we get into it, I'm so excited to invite you to Club Reforma this November 21st in Manchester. A club? Not very wellness of you, Jasmine, I hear you say. Well, not this one. We've teamed up with Fold Reformer (the viral foldable reformer you've likely seen on your Instagram feed) for one night only to create the wellness girlies answer to perfect Friday night plans™. Designed to satisfy that "I kinda want to go out, but also kinda don't" end-of-week energy, especially as the days get shorter. You'll enjoy a Reformer Pilates class under disco lights with Sean Paul on the playlist (sadly he won't be joining us), great food, and cocktails (& mocktails) after class.

There’s 3 classes during the evening, so pick whichever suits your day best, then stay to enjoy the vibe whilst connecting with other high performing women like you in the city. Plus, you'll be in bed by 10 - heavenly. It's my first Manchester event, and I cannot wait (neither can my mum!) to come back up North and grow the Daily Rituals community across the UK. It was about damn time.

There’s just 20 tickets remaining. First movers get pre-sale access pricing at £25 with code PRESALE10. Any questions? Just hit reply to this email.

As always, thank you for being here. I'm so grateful for you.

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The best stories & updates that caught our eye this week → 

• 🧥 It's puffer season: Here are 6 of the best for this AW. Our criteria? Not overly branded, don't require a mortgage to buy, can be worn with everyday clothes without ruining an outfit, and you know, actually have the tech to keep you warm. This one is oversized to perfection (one puff more and it would give Michelin man, but we're glad the designer held back). This deep green one from Vuori has £100 off right now and is going fast, understandably. Varley are always in the mix, and this blend of puffer & sherpa is a vibe. For those that like a shine finish, this burgundy one is your pick (or if you're more of an olive gal, this is for you). For those who want to say "I don't just wear the same as everyone else," this has to be it.

• 🧠 Don't use it? Lose it: Whether AI is taking over isn't a debate for this newsletter, but it is hurting your brain, according to a new MIT study. Over-reliance on ChatGPT for tasks (in this case, writing) caused participants to not only get worse at the task when unable to use AI - they couldn't remember what they'd written and their brains literally didn't fire up the same way. Today, it's so easy to feed every dilemma into ChatGPT and get a reasonable result. But at what cost? Next time, try going cold turkey, at least for your first attempt. Use AI to refine and develop, rather than create from scratch, to keep your brain firing. Because while everyone else's brain is atrophying in the AI age, yours will be sharp as a pin. And like all muscles, the ones we don't use, we lose.

• 🧘 How to release: Q4 got you spiralling? This is for high-achieving control freaks who may have over-optimised themselves into a corner but also know they’d benefit from letting go, even a little. Failing that, this could be worth a shot..

• 🏋️ A new era of community: Imagine showing up to F45 and your coach already knows your recovery is in tip-top shape, so they can push you hard. That could be F45's future with their new Reebok partnership. Especially as Reebok US just dropped their first-ever wearable last week - a smart ring. Now, at first glance, Reebok's looks (& appears to be) exactly like the Oura Gen 3 - complete with those little ridges on the inside which, FYI, are a little irritating if you're lifting weights. So considering the F45 partnership and the fact that there are 1,818,293 smart rings available already, one might assume they've surely improved workout tracking - the thing most rings struggle with. If not? We're not sure there's much need for another smart ring, although their distribution strategy (kitting out F45 coaches and communities) is an interesting move none of the others have tried. We'll report back.

• 🧠 The brain training boom: New brand Atlas just raised $14m in funding to launch its "brain-sensing wearable" in 2026. It's slightly Black Mirror-esque in design (exhibit A) and tracks how your daily behaviours affect your focus and brain power. But don't we already know the answer? Phones and scrolling = bad. Getting outside and movement = good. Perhaps if it alerts you when you're about to slip into a TikTok hole, you might snap out of it. But equally Black Mirror - imagine how powerful TikTok could make their dopamine-addicting algorithm with that exact data. Scary stuff. In the same week, wearable headband brand Muse announced new features coming soon to their sleep tracker - our favourites: Deep Sleep Stimulation and a smart alarm. The latter wakes you up when you're least groggy within your allotted wake window. The former keeps you in deeper sleep stages to support memory and recovery by playing pink noise based on your brain activity. The brain training era is here.

• 🍂 Breakfast upgrade: Craving a cosy warm bowl of oats? Same. Try these 5 combinations to suitably romanticise your morning (or evening, you do you). Cinnamon, cardamom and vanilla is our current fave and screams AW and we’re pairing it with this silky smooth cacao tea.

My out of control supplement stack

If you've ever suffered with your skin, or any long-term health issue, you'll know you get to a point where you'll literally do anything to fix it. In my case: treatments, new regimes, changing my diet, adjusting my workouts to "help balance my hormones" and downing various organic teas TikTok promised would be the cure-all. It's bleak.

What's worse is that in my darkest days around a year ago, when I was really going through it, I'd be served ads daily for new supplements to try. Meta rightly (or maybe sadly) knew I was an easy target, and I bought the lot. The problem? I'd no idea if they were legit, but my (terrible) logic was that surely one of them was bound to help - so why not take approx 13, all tackling my skin at different angles, to increase my chances of success? *Absolutely don't do this at home!

Well, the issue with that is twofold. First, the doses were too high, especially as some had overlapping ingredients (which can be toxic, especially with fat-soluble vitamins like A, D, E & K). Second, the try-everything-until-something-sticks method is expensive - and honestly, gives desperate energy to the universe.

What I needed back then wasn't more supplements - it was someone who could actually tell me which ones my body needed, at what dose, and why. So when I got the chance to try a W-Wellness consultation, safe to say I jumped at it. At first, being the slightly awkward millennial I am, I wasn't looking forward to another Zoom call. But ahead of the call, I was sent a short questionnaire about my goals and, importantly (read: embarrassingly), what supplements I was currently taking and why. As I started listing them out, I realised I didn't really know what I was taking some of them for anymore or how they were supposed to help my skin & hormones - I'd just read they did.

Now onto the consult. So disclosure: you already know this is an ad, but honestly, I was so impressed. Not only did Maz, the W-Wellness expert & nutritionist, genuinely hear me out and listen to my skin/life struggles - she'd done her research. Every single brand of supplement I'd listed had been dug into. And whilst her job is to create a personalised supplement plan from W-Wellness, it felt like she genuinely wanted to help and came with so many suggestions & tweaks that couldn't be bought off the platform. After going through each supplement, she pointed out where I had some key gaps - especially in the general multi-vits category I'd clearly disregarded if they didn't promise hormone-balancing or acne-reducing benefits. Then she got out the big guns - I could reduce my supplement stack from 13 down to 6 by making a few simple changes, covering my gaps and saving money too. 

So if you're not sure where to start with your supplement stack, or want a second opinion (let's be honest, your GP isn't going to give you much airtime if you start talking about nootropics or NAC), speak to W-Wellness for guidance. Each consult costs £50, which is redeemable across all W-Wellness products, but as a Wellness Dose reader, you get 50% off with code DR50 until October 24th. And if it turns out your supplement stack is in check, they've recently started stocking some dreamy bath, body & beauty brands that you'll be able to spend your £25 on instead!

★ Book your W-Wellness consultation for just £25 with code DR50 until October 24th.

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