Wrap up

The Brief

Welcome back, Wellworthy readers.

As the year winds down and the holidays pick up, we pulled together a quick roundup of products we genuinely liked (and can’t live without) from our recent gift guide.

We're also looking back at the wellness themes that defined 2025.

Next week is our holiday break, so this is our last newsletter of the year. Happy holidays! We hope you get some time to slow down and recharge.

Here’s what’s inside:

• Our go-to fitness, nutrition, and recovery tools 

• 2025’s breakthrough wellness themes

• A quick note before we close out the year

— Here we go!

Jake, Joana & Ash — Team Wellworthy

🎁 Our gifting favorites 

Products we kept coming back to → 

• For those who crave better sleep: Recovery & Sleep Guide
  Upgrades that help you reset, from cooling beds to magnesium blends.

• For the fitness-obsessed: Strength & Fitness Guide
  Gear built for low-impact days, marathon training blocks, and everything else.

• For those optimizing their routine: Longevity & Biohacking Guide
  Test and tools for the one who tracks everything (including their HRV on vacation).

• For thoughtful gifts that don’t blow your budget: Under $100 Guide
  Small upgrades that feel surprisingly big in daily life.

The brand making cardiovascular health central, not supplemental

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Energy isn’t a feeling. It’s a system. Your cardiovascular system fuels 36 trillion cells — and every single one of those cells depends on blood flow. 

SuperBeets Heart Chews from Humann work by helping your body produce nitric oxide to help support healthy circulation and blood flow. The result? More reliable energy that holds through long meetings, workouts, or whatever your Friday afternoon throws at you.

A clinical study shows the grape seed extract in these chews is nearly two times more effective at supporting healthy blood pressure than diet and exercise alone.

Two pomegranate berry chews daily. No caffeine, no stimulants — just healthy circulation doing the work your energy drinks can't.

⭐ What stood out this year

A few themes that kept showing up → 

Clean energy took the spotlight. Ketone-IQ pushed ketones mainstream, and coffee alternatives like Mateína emerged as a jitter-free way to get us through the day.

Low-impact kept its momentum. Pilates had another big year, and we saw brands like FÔLD and Tonal debut tools to make it more accessible outside the studio.

Recovery leveled up. BON CHARGE rolled out everything from a stacked sauna dome to a red-light cap, and Hyperice added Normatec Elite Hips for more targeted, at-home relief.

Fitness got more “sport” this year. HYROX rolled out athlete licensing, anti-doping protocols, and formats like LT Games launched and quickly lined up a second event, pushing fitness closer to organized sport.

Tracking went inside-out. Everything from smart toilets to performance-focused bloodwork to glucose-driven nutrition coaching proves that people want personalized insights on what’s happening inside their bodies.

Heart health became more proactive. Humann spotlighted nitric oxide and circulation, reflecting a broader shift toward early detection, not reactive care.

Movement as the new happy hour. Run clubs, Sweatpals meetups, sober hangouts — all echoing what Strava’s data revealed: breaking a sweat and socializing go hand-in-hand.

2025 made one thing clear: Wellness is intertwined with everyday life. People crave support that feels specific and genuinely helpful, and brands are evolving to keep pace. We’re tracking that momentum, and more, as we head into 2026.

Before we go 

Thanks for being here → 

We’ll be back on January 1st to check in on what you want more of in 2026.

And if you tried something we shared this year — a product, a routine, a small shift — we’d love to hear what worked. Just reply to this email. 

See you in the new year!