Helping you make sense of what's happening in your body.
Evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle guidance for women navigating perimenopause and beyond.
Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed by confusing symptoms, wondering if it’s “just hormones”, or simply looking for trusted support, you’re in the right place.
Here you’ll find practical guidance, honest conversations and a supportive community to help you better understand your changing body and feel confident about your next steps.
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This comprehensive free quiz uses 36 targeted questions to help you discover where you may be on your perimenopause journey, and what to do next.
PERHAPS SOMETHING HAS SHIFTED?
- Low energy, mood swings, irritability, anxiety, low mood, decreased sex drive and low libido.
- Feeling flat, you’ve lost your zest for life. Things that used to bring you joy no longer do. It’s like you’ve lost your mojo, your sense of excitement and curiosity about the world.
- You have zero or minimal tolerance for stressors in life; things that didn’t bother you before make you grind your teeth today.
- Irritability is at an all time high, you feel more sensitive to everything around you, noise sensitivity, you’re quicker to anger. You can’t listen to your partner eating without wanting to strangle them!
- You just don’t feel like yourself anymore.
- Everything you used to do to lose weight has stopped working, easy weight loss is a thing of the past. You’re gaining weight and fat around your belly, you’ve noticed a significant decrease in your body confidence and finding it more challenging to manage your weight.
- What you’ve been doing is no longer working and your body reacts differently than it did before. It feels like no matter how much you diet or workout, nothing changes. You may have even noticed you’re digestion issues getting worse and that you’re now sensitive to foods you used to love.
- You’ve noticed you’re constantly feeling bloated, inflamed, and having more joint pain, feeling constantly stiff and achy and slower to recover from your workouts.
- Your face feels puffy and you’ve noticed puffiness around ankles, wrists and other joints.
- Difficulty with concentration, increased forgetfulness, feeling foggy and unclear, relying more on caffeine to keep you going.
- Forgetfulness is at an all time high, you walk into the room and forget what you were looking for. It’s like you’ve got the memory of a goldfish overnight.
- Task switching and/or multitasking has become near impossible, and it’s beginning to affect your work and career.
- Your cognitive load has decreased massively, you’re less productive, less effective, and feel less efficient.
- You feel mentally slower and more sluggish, leading to increased feelings of self doubt, frustration, and anxiety.
- You’re experiencing challenges with sleep or insomnia; you can’t fall asleep as easily and you can’t stay asleep the whole night. You’re tired and groggy no matter how long you’ve slept, you wake up feeling like a bus hit you during the night.
- You’re constantly feeling tired and like you’re underperforming. You’re not able to do the things you used to do simply because you don’t have the energy.
- Some days it feels like you’re wading through treacle, just trying to make it through to the end of the day.
- Your cycles are getting shorter or longer, maybe you’re noticing some spotting before your period arrives, and when your period comes it’s heavy, painful, often with flooding or clotting.
- You’re experiencing new or worse PMS symptoms such as breast pain or tenderness, mood swings, anger or even rage, irritability, anxiety, headaches or migraines, and more intense energy shifts.
- Perhaps you have a history of PCOS or endometriosis and your symptoms are becoming more noticeable or intense. And you’re not sure if this is the condition itself, or perimenopause, or both!
- You know things are changing but you just don’t know why!
you don't need to figure this out alone
One-to-One Support
Initial Consultation
A comprehensive 90-minute consultation to explore your health, symptoms and goals. Together we’ll make sense of what’s happening in your body, identify the factors that may be contributing to your symptoms, and create a personalised nutrition and lifestyle plan tailored to you. You’ll also receive a concise written summary of your recommendations after the session.
Follow-Up Consultation
For existing clients. A 60-minute consultation to review your progress, discuss any new symptoms or questions, refine your recommendations and make sure you leave feeling clear about your next steps. Includes a concise written summary following your appointment.
Clinical Review
For existing clients. A personalised review of your new blood test or functional test results, interpreted in the context of your health history and symptoms. You’ll receive clear, evidence-based recommendations and suggested next steps in a concise written report, without the need for another consultation.
welcome
I’ve been supporting women’s health for over 13 years as a Registered Nutritional Therapist (mBANT, CNHC), combining evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle guidance with a calm, practical approach that helps women feel informed, supported and confident in their health decisions.
BROWSE THE BLOG
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Episode 21: Muscle and Joint Pain In Perimenopause: What You Need to Know
Episode 28: Beyond Hormones: Uncovering Hidden Causes of Perimenopausal Symptoms
Episode 27: Why Can’t I Focus? How Perimenopause Affects Your Brain and Cognition
Episode 24: How to Eat in Perimenopause
Episode 34: Perimenopause Affects All 12 Body Systems—and Why Autoimmunity Can Follow
Episode 2: What's Actually Happening With Your Hormones in Your 40s
"Nutrition + lifestyle medicine is a massively underutilised strategy for managing hormone health and thus the symptoms and changes that occur in perimenopause"
— FRANCESCA LIPAROTI, Registered Nutritional Therapist specialising in women's health and perimenopause. —
MEET FRANCESCA
Hello!
I’m passionate about helping women make sense of what’s happening in their bodies through perimenopause and beyond. Through evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle guidance, my podcast, one-to-one support and the Midlife Thrive Community, I provide calm, practical support to help women better understand their changing bodies, feel more confident in their health decisions, and know they don’t have to navigate midlife alone.
When I’m not talking all things perimenopause, you’ll usually find me with a cup of green tea, enjoying a piece of dark chocolate (or a chocolate brownie!), lifting weights or walking by the sea in my hometown.
I’d love to help you better understand what’s happening in your body and support you every step of the way.
credentials and certifications
INSTITUTE FOR OPTIMUM NUTRITION (ION)
BEDFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY
BANT
CNHC
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