Gail Brady Nutrition

01/08/2026

I hear this most weeks: ‘I haven’t changed what I eat. I’m gaining weight anyway, especially around my middle.’

This is one of the most common, and most misunderstood, experiences of perimenopause. It isn’t a willpower failure. It’s a metabolic shift.

As oestrogen declines, insulin sensitivity changes. Carbohydrates your metabolism handled effortlessly at 35 are now more likely to be stored, particularly around the abdomen.

At the same time, cortisol tends to run higher, and chronically elevated cortisol specifically promotes abdominal fat storage. That’s not a coincidence. It’s physiology…

What can actually moves the needle:
→ Prioritising protein - around 30g per meal, well above the amount many women consume
→ Restructuring meals around blood sugar stability rather than calorie counting
→ Addressing cortisol load, which is where sleep, stress and gut health can all play a part

This is why a generic calorie-deficit approach so often fails in perimenopause. It’s not a quantity problem it’s the hormonal environment your body is processing everything within.

Share it with someone who needs to hear that it isn’t their fault.

DM PLAN to find out how we address this in the PTP programme

29/07/2026

You’ve always been the person who figures it out.

You push through. You adapt. You perform.

For a long time, that strategy worked reliably.

But perimenopause hits differently and doesn’t respond to willpower, it responds to biology.

And for high-performing women specifically, the symptoms tend to land exactly where it can hurt the most: cognitive sharpness, emotional resilience, the ability to sustain energy across a demanding day.

The brain fog that arrives mid-meeting.

The exhaustion sleep doesn’t touch.

Weight shifting in ways none of your usual strategies reach…

This isn’t a mindset problem. It’s a hormonal one, and the women who get results fastest are the ones who stop trying to manage it and start trying to understand it.

If you’re a high-performing woman in your 40s or early 50s who’s done guessing, the Power Through Perimenopause Programme was put together for someone just like you - more info in my bio

Or book a Midlife Reset consultation as a focused starting point. 60 minutes. Your symptoms, your history, your next steps.

Midlife Reset consultation (£145)

28/07/2026

3am. Wide awake. Heart going slightly too fast. No obvious reason…

If this is a regular occurrence, you’ve probably been told it’s stress, or anxiety, or ‘just one of those things’.

And it might be…. But there’s a more specific mechanism worth knowing about: oestrogen normally keeps cortisol in check overnight.

As oestrogen becomes less reliable in perimenopause, that buffering job gets done less well, and cortisol can spikes earlier than it’s supposed to… Hence 3am waking, night after night.

Three things that may genuinely help:
→ Protein with your evening meal, not just breakfast
→ Magnesium glycinate before bed (200–400mg — glycinate, not oxide)
→ No screens for 90 minutes before sleep, not necessarily because of blue light, but because cognitive stimulation keeps cortisol elevated

These are good foundations. But if 3am has been your pattern for more than a few weeks, it could be that your body is telling you something specific, and it’s worth finding out what rather than guessing, and I can help with this

Start with my free guide, The Midlife Energy Fix. The link is in my bio or DM me for more information on how you can work with me.

07/07/2026

02/07/2026

I want to be clear before anything else: I support HRT. For many women it’s transformative. I’m not here to argue against it.

But I do want to talk about what it doesn’t do, because I see the confusion this causes all the time.

HRT can replace@hormones. It doesn’t fix:
→ Blood sugar dysregulation (a major driver of fatigue, weight gain, and sleep disruption)
→ Gut health issues that affect how you process and clear oestrogen
→ Nutritional deficiencies such as low ferritin, suboptimal B12, insufficient magnesium
→ Inflammatory load from diet, stress, or environmental factors

These things are often happening in parallel. And they respond to nutrition, not hormones.

If you’re on HRT and still not feeling the way you expected, that’s not because HRT failed. It’s because there’s more to address. And there’s a straightforward way to find out what.

I have a package including 3 functional tests that can help to identify potential imbalances and underlying causes of symptoms, my Power Through Perimenopause package. You can find out more about this by clicking on the link in my bio or comment or message with the word POWER and I’ll send you more info

Save this and share it with someone who needs to hear it. The number of women I speak to who’ve been told HRT should fix everything and feel like they’re failing when it doesn’t is too high.

02/07/2026

Let’s talk about the investment. Because I’d rather you have the full picture than make a decision based on the number alone.

The Power Through Perimenopause programme costs £1,895.

That includes: a 54-marker blood panel, a hormone urine test, a gut health stool test, five 1:1 consultations over 12 weeks, a fully personalised nutrition protocol, and Mon–Fri email support throughout.

Most women who come to me have already spent this, sometimes significantly more, across supplements that weren’t targeted to their results, private GP appointments, and other approaches that helped a little but didn’t get to the root cause.

The difference is that everything in this programme comes from your own biology. Not a template. Not a guess.

I’m not the right fit for everyone. If you want a quick fix or a meal plan, this isn’t that.

But if you want to understand what’s actually happening in your body and have a plan built around your specific results, the Midlife Reset consultation is where that conversation starts. It’s £145. No obligation to continue.

Link in bio or message me RESET

23/06/2026

Part 1

04/06/2026

What does the Power Through Perimenopause Package include?

Many women come to me after spending years trying to piece things together themselves.

They’ve tried supplements.

They’ve followed advice online.

They’ve had appointments that left them with more questions than answers.

This programme provides:

✔ Comprehensive case review

✔ Three advanced tests

✔ Personalised interpretation of results

✔ Nutrition and lifestyle recommendations

✔ Supplement guidance

✔ Follow-up consultations

✔ Ongoing support and accountability

Most importantly, it provides clarity.

Because when you understand what’s happening inside your body, you can stop guessing and start moving forward with confidence.

DM me the word PERIMENOPAUSE if you’d like more information.

03/06/2026

She wasn't imagining it.

Her GP had run the blood tests twice. Both came back normal.

She was 48, exhausted, gaining weight without explanation, waking at 3am, and watching her focus at work slowly disappear.

She had started to wonder if this was just ageing, and whether she should stop fighting it.

It wasn't ageing. Her body was giving her very specific signals. We just needed the right tests to interpret them.

When we ran a comprehensive 54-marker blood panel, a hormone urine test, and a gut health assessment, the picture became clear immediately. Low ferritin sitting inside the "normal" range. Suboptimal thyroid markers her GP's panel didn't check. Blood sugar dysregulation driving every crash. Oestrogen clearance impaired by her gut microbiome.

None of this was visible on a standard NHS panel. All of it was fixable.

Twelve weeks later: sleeping through the night, energy back, focus returned, weight moving.

More than any of that, she understood her own body for the first time.

If you've been told everything is normal and you know it isn't, that's not in your head. It means the right questions haven't been asked yet.

DM me PLAN to start that conversation.

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Shared as a composite case reflecting common clinical patterns. Identifying details are illustrative.