Hi! I’m Francesca, a Registered Nutritional Therapist helping women rebalance their hormones to thrive in their 40s
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I work with women one to one and in groups, to help them rebalance their hormones so they can THRIVE in their 40s and through perimenopause. Think more energy, better mood, better sleep, brighter skin, a happy gut, good weight management, and finally feeling like your best self again.. I’ve been a qualified and Registered Nutritionist since 2013 and have since worked with many many women to help t
hem rebalance + THRIVE. My goal everyday professionally and personally is to educate and empower women towards a healthier happier lifestyle. I am a registered nutritionist, bound by the code of ethics in clinical practice and have met the strict criteria required for registration with BANT, the British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy and the CNHC, Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council, which is the council recommended by the UK Department of Health for complementary and natural healthcare services. If you're fed up of feeling under par and like your only surviving instead of thriving then you've come to the right place. Get in touch with me and we can have a chat to discuss things further and find out if we are a good fit for each other. With love,
Francesca xx
16/07/2025
💪 “After 40, we don’t just want to ‘maintain’ muscle, we need to actively protect and rebuild it. Protein is the #1 ally for doing that.”
Most women don’t realise that from around age 30, we start losing muscle mass every single year, and this speeds up in our 40s and 50s due to hormonal changes (insulin, cortisol progesterone, testosterone, oestrogen..they all impact muscle mass).
✨But the empowering truth and good news is:�
🤓You can prevent muscle loss
🤓You can rebuild strength
🤓And it starts with protein.
🎙️In this week’s podcast episode, I’m diving into:�
🧬 Why protein is critical for women 40+
🍳 How much protein you actually need
💥 The role of leucine and muscle protein synthesis (MPS)
🌱 Why plant-based protein requires more strategy
🥣 Why collagen powder doesn’t count toward your daily total
💩 And how digestion impacts your ability to absorb protein
🎙️ NEW EPISODE: Why Protein Matters More After 40 💪✨
Let’s clear something up:�Protein isn’t just for bodybuilders or women who lift weights.�It’s for every woman who wants to feel strong, energised, and thrive through perimenopause and beyond.
Starting in our 30s, we naturally lose muscle mass, and hormonal changes during perimenopause only speed that up.
But the good news?�
You can absolutely protect and even rebuild muscle and maintain it, and it starts with PROTEIN.
🎙️In this weeks empowering episode, I break down:�
💥 Why women over 40 need MORE protein
�🧬 How protein supports muscle, blood sugar, hormones + more�
🥚 How much protein you should aim for (with real-life numbers!)�
🌱 The truth about plant vs animal protein
�❌ Why collagen powder doesn’t count�
🧘🏽♀️ And how digestion affects your protein absorption
If you’re feeling low energy, losing strength or tone, or struggling with cravings, this episode is your guide.
💬 Tag or share with a friend who might need this! And Like this post if it resonates!🤎
10/07/2025
Did you know that your stress response is deeply connected to your hormones?
In perimenopause, oestrogen starts to fluctuate more erratically, and this impacts your brain in a BIG way.
🧠 Oestrogen supports neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin, which help you feel calm, motivated, and emotionally balanced. But when oestrogen starts to fluctuate erratically in perimenopause, those sharp drops in the rollercoaster can stress out your brain, increase cortisol, and dysregulate your HPA Axis over time.
So, if you’re wondering why you’re feeling more stressed, anxious, on-edge and just less tolerant or resilient lately, you’re not alone and you’re not going mad!
�Your biology is shifting, and your nervous system needs more support than ever now.
In this week’s podcast episode, I dive into:
�✅ What’s really going on with stress and hormones after 40�
✅ How to support your nervous system and stress response daily�
✅ The link between hormone changes, poor sleep, and emotional resilience
�✅ Whether adaptogens like ashwagandha can actually help (and how to use them wisely)
😖Feeling more stressed or less resilient in your 40s and wondering why?
It’s not just life. It’s not just bad sleep or too much coffee or another thing you’re "not doing right."
🙏It’s your hormones and more specifically, your HPA axis, your brain’s internal stress system.
As oestrogen fluctuates erratically and progesterone declines in perimenopause, your nervous system becomes more reactive, sleep gets disrupted, and cortisol (your main stress hormone) goes UP ⬆️
Your brain is working harder than ever to stay balanced, and that’s why you might feel wired, anxious, exhausted, or just not yourself lately.
In this week’s podcast episode, I’m unpacking:
�🧠What the HPA axis actually is
�😖How it becomes dysregulated in perimenopause�
😴Why sleep and emotional resilience change�
✨How to support your stress response daily�
🤓Why adaptogens can help, but only if used wisely�...and how your adrenal glands are key to hormone balance both now and post-menopause.
🤎 Tired of feeling “off” but not getting answers from standard tests?
Did you know, the DUTCH Plus hormone test is available through me, and it’s one of the most powerful ways to truly understand what’s going on beneath the surface.
Whether you're dealing with:
�✨ Fatigue�
✨ Mood swings or anxiety�
✨ Sleep issues�
✨ Weight gain�
✨ PMS or irregular cycles
�✨ Hair loss
�✨ Brain fog�...this test goes deep into your s*x hormones, stress hormones, adrenal function, melatonin, nutrient status, and more.
You’ll get:�
🔬 A comprehensive at-home DUTCH Plus test kit�
👩⚕️ A full analysis + 60-minute consultation with me
�🗺️ A personalised hormone health roadmap tailored to you
🧩Could histamine be the missing piece of your perimenopause puzzle?
Itchy skin, random rashes, nasal congestion, worsening migraines, heavy periods, anxiety, palpitations, or sleep issues? It might not just be your hormones, it could be histamine.
Perimenopause is a time when oestrogen doesn’t actually start its decline until later on and in the early stages it's actually soaring to levels higher than ever before. Those spikes can trigger a rise in histamine (or make it harder for your body to clear it). The result? A whole cascade of intensified symptoms. Symptoms you may have been putting solely down to hormones.
🤓Learn a lot more on this weeks episode of the Empowered Perimenopause podcast, where I’m breaking down the histamine–hormone connection and how to get relief, naturally and holistically.
🎧 Episode 44: The Hidden Link Between Histamine and Perimenopause Symptoms is live now.
Feeling itchy, anxious or foggy in perimenopause? It could be histamine! 👀
Histamine isn’t just about hay fever, it’s strongly linked to hormones, especially oestrogen. In this week’s episode of the Empowered Perimenopause podcast, I’m sharing the hidden link between high histamine and the many symptoms we face in midlife. From insomnia to heavy periods to migraines to ringing in the ears.
🎙️In episode 44, you’ll learn:�
🤓Why oestrogen makes histamine worse (and vice versa)
😖How histamine can trigger anxiety and brain fog (and many other symptoms)
⬇️The impact of declining progesterone on histamine symptoms
🥗The importance of gut health in managing histamine
💩Foods and supplements that help�🧘🏾♀️Why nervous system support is non-negotiable
🩸Just because your period shows up each month doesn’t mean your cycle is doing what it should be doing.
👉 Ovulation — not just menstruation — is the true marker of a healthy menstrual cycle.
Why does this matter? Because ovulation is how we make progesterone, and this hormone is key for:�✨Mood stability�✨Sleep�✨Lighter, more manageable periods�✨Overall hormonal balance and health
In next week’s episode of The Empowered Perimenopause Podcast, I’m diving deep into:�✔️ Why ovulation still matters in perimenopause, completely aside from fertility�✔️ What blocks it (hello, stress & other things!)�✔️ And how to support it naturally and effectively
You have way more power over your experience than you’ve been told. This post is your reminder 💫
In this week's episode of The Empowered Perimenopause Podcast, I’m breaking down a huge misconception: that having a regular period means you’re hormonally healthy. It doesn’t.�True menstrual health requires ovulation and in perimenopause, that’s not always happening anymore.
Join me as I explore why ovulation is essential (even if you’re not trying to conceive) and how it’s the key to producing progesterone, the hormone that helps ease PMS, ease periods, calm your brain, support sleep, and reduce perimenopause symptoms.
You’ll learn:
🤎Why ovulation is more than just fertility, it’s a sign of hormonal health
🤎How your brain determines whether it’s “safe” to ovulate
🤎What suboptimal ovulation looks and feels like, and why it matters
🤎The 6 most effective ways to support ovulation in your 30s and throughout your 40s
🎙️Tune in to discover practical, holistic steps you can take to support your cycles and your well-being through the perimenopausal transition.
Feeling foggy, wired-but-tired, irritable, or just... not like yourself?�
It could be your hormones and no, you're not crazy, and nor are you alone 🤯
In your late 30s and 40s+, hormonal shifts are normal part of physiology as the body makes its gradual way through perimenopause, but feeling awful all the time isn’t normal.
In this week’s episode of the Empowered Perimenopause podcast, I talk you through 6 common hormonal shifts in your 30s and 40s, and how to support each one;
1️⃣ Low progesterone
�2️⃣ High oestrogen
3️⃣ Erratic oestrogen
�4️⃣ Cortisol chaos
5️⃣ Insulin resistance
�6️⃣ Low melatonin
✨ My Personal Perimenopause Story - so far, at 45 ✨
This week on the podcast, I’m sharing my personal experience: the symptoms that caught me off guard (anxiety, anyone?), the mindset shifts I’ve had to make, and what’s genuinely helped me feel more like myself again.
As a practitioner, I’ve supported countless women through this season — but living it myself? It’s taken my understanding to a whole new level.
💛 Sleep and circadian rhythm�💛 Nervous system support�💛 Blood sugar balance�💛 Saying “no” without guilt�💛 Laughing with friends (and at myself)
It’s all in this episode, and it’s for you — whether you’re just starting to notice things feel just… different, or you’re deep in the thick of it.
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Ready to come unstuck & embrace vibrant health, more energy, happiness, FOREVER?
My health, energy, and weight battle started in 2002 when I gained 3 stone steadily over time, and decided it was time to shift it and get back to me. Little did I know I would battle for 8 years and get stuck in a frustrating yo yo dieting cycle. One day I decided there HAS to be more to this weight loss thing than these depressing restrictive diets I kept going back to with no success or at least no LASTING success. I sought the help of a Nutritional Therapist and learned that I was doing things all wrong - through NO fault of my own. Society was teaching me that to lose weight you needed to follow a low calorie diet and do a tonne of cardio, for a period of time, until the weight came off. But this ISN’T TRUE!!
I soon broke the cycle once I had the right advice and support. But I didn't just lose the weight, I got a tonne more energy, happiness, better sleep, better digestion, glowing skin, hair and nails, a strong body, and a great relationship with food ;) I’m turning 40 this year (2019) and feel better today than I could have ever dreamed in my 20s.
I’m one of the lucky ones having figured this all out ages 28, because most of my clients are coming to me after having been battling for a LOT longer than 8 years, they’re in their late 30s, 40s and 50s. But that doesn't matter because it’s NEVER too late to totally turn things around and become that vibrantly healthy, fit and in shape woman you so want to be, and DESERVE to be.
I teach my clients what's REALLY needed to lose weight, FEEL amazing, and make it last FOREVER. I’m a London based girl but I run my nutrition and lifestyle coaching practice virtually so I see clients from all over the UK and the world. I work with clients on a one to one basis or group basis inside my signature 12 week programme THE FOREVER PLAN.
THE FOREVER PLAN is a 16 week life changing group programme that teaches you the key ingredients, information and strategies, for your FOREVER nutrition & lifestyle plan, so you can effortlessly and enjoyably be healthy, fit, vibrant, and full of energy, everyday.
If you’d link to know more about working me and about the programme send me a private message or email francesca@flnutrition.co.uk and we can chat from there :-)
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