Ailsa Cowell

1 week ago | mindbodygreen.com | Ailsa Cowell

May 28, 2025We carefully vet all products and services featured on mindbodygreen using our commerce guidelines. Our selections are never influenced by the commissions earned from our links. Anxiety is a universal experience. Who hasn’t felt anxious over a big presentation, an upcoming date, or something silly said at a dinner party on the trip home? While anxiousness is a very natural part of the human condition, that’s not to say it’s always benign.

Mar 3, 2025 | mindbodygreen.com | Ailsa Cowell

Image by Ailsa Cowell / mbg creativeMarch 03, 2025I have a confession to make: Despite having over a decade of experience in health and well-being, a nutrition degree, and a love of fitness, I was late to the creatine party. I tried a couple of brands of creatine over the past several years (albeit inconsistently) and didn’t notice any big changes other than feeling bloated.

Dec 2, 2024 | mindbodygreen.com | Ailsa Cowell

December 03, 2024We carefully vet all products and services featured on mindbodygreen using our commerce guidelines. Our selections are never influenced by the commissions earned from our links. Perimenopause—the mysterious phase that every woman will go through, yet a term that . There is a changing tide in women’s health, though, and these years are demanding increased attention. Women are tired of being left out of scientific research and medical education.

Dec 2, 2024 | mindbodygreen.com | Ailsa Cowell

December 03, 2024We carefully vet all products and services featured on mindbodygreen using our commerce guidelines. Our selections are never influenced by the commissions earned from our links. It’s been a rough day. Your heart feels like it’s going to jump out of your chest, your palms are sweaty, and your stomach hurts. You feel tired but also completely wound up. This is the mind-body connection at work, and while unpleasant, it’s the body’s way of signaling your mental load.

Nov 7, 2024 | mindbodygreen.com | Ailsa Cowell

Image by Studio Set Apart / StocksyNovember 08, 2024Flowers, fruit, seashells… and bacteria? Of all the ways vaginas are depicted, we don’t hear much about the latter. Half the population has one, yet we know so little about the dynamic and finely tuned ecosystem so subtly positioned between our legs. We’re increasingly hearing more about the gut microbiome, so why is it that the bacterial community most intertwined with reproductive health is often left out of the conversation?