Starved of human touch, face-to-face medical care, and enough social interaction to maintain mental health wellness, the pandemic has highlighted real issues in the healthcare system. Now focused on a solution, the ability to channel the human experience via tech innovation may well be the answer.

Forth, a hormone mapping start-up based in Chepstow, is looking to turn its customers into ‘citizen scientists’, providing women with the information they need to fully understand their own bodies. In doing so, it has become one of the fastest-growing businesses in Wales.

The days when just eating a bowl of granola counted as good gut health are long gone. The global market for digestive health products is growing rapidly, but given that it’s a complex topic informed as much by pseudoscience as by rigorous research, how are people making sense of the category?

The wellness industry is exclusive – Black and Brown women have long been underrepresented and underserved in the space. Black Girl’s Healing House is challenging this narrative by providing an online holistic healing platform for marginalized women in the company of others like them.