It’s 8am and I’m standing at the edge of my local lake at Beckenham Place Park in London, the early morning sun just beginning to peek over the trees. A layer of mist is rising from the cold water and ...

Of the 785 women surveyed, 46.9% said swimming eased their anxiety; 34.5% said it helped their mood swings; 31.1% said it elevated their mood; and 30.3% said it reduced their hot flashes. The findings ...

Laura Hall, author of new memoir The Year I Lay My Head in Water, explains for The Local what she learnt about herself after ...

Cold water swimming has been popular for a while now (which is why you see so many stylish swim robes around), but are the suggested benefits real? In this article, I’ll uncover what is fact and ...

Menopausal women who regularly swim in cold water report significant improvements to their physical and mental symptoms, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. The research, published in Post ...

Adam Boggon, MBChB, was working at the Royal Free Hospital in North London during the city's second wave of COVID-19. "I was effectively living in the hospital," he recalls. "It felt like I was going ...

Women with menstrual or perimenopausal symptoms can relieve common physical and psychological issues through cold water swimming, a new study finds. Researchers found that cold water swimming had ...