The Rise Decoded

Answers about you, not about women in general.

Most health information tells you what's true on average. That's a reasonable place to start and a frustrating place to stay — because you don't need to know what happens to most women in their forties. You need to know what's happening to you.

These tools take what you tell them and give you something specific back. All three are free and always will be.

Free to use

Three tools, built on published research

Each one names the specialists it's built on. Two open straight away; the full training programme is sent to your email so you've got it to refer back to.

Free

The Symptom Assessment

Work through sixty-three commonly reported symptoms across nine categories — sleep, mood, cycle, cognition, joints, skin and more. You'll see which categories your symptoms cluster in, how concentrated the pattern is, and a plain-language explanation of what tends to drive each one.

Most useful if you've been told it's stress, or if you've never seen all of your symptoms written down in one place. The summary is written to be readable by a clinician.
Symptom list sourced from The Menopause Society and Dr. Louise Newson, MBChB.
Free

The 4-Week Resistance Reset

A four-week strength programme built on Dr. Stacy Sims' three-day split — quads, push and pull, then posterior chain. Sets, reps and load progression are written into the tool, so it works on its own. Each day also links to a real Caroline Girvan session if you'd rather follow along than count sets yourself.

Start here if you know lifting matters after 40 but have no idea what to actually do in the gym. It assumes no prior programme and tells you exactly what to do on each of the twelve sessions.
Built on the published work of Dr. Stacy Sims, PhD and Dr. Vonda Wright, MD, plus the LIFTMOR trials.
Free

The Protein Calculator

Enter your weight, how active you actually are, and where you are in the transition. It returns a daily protein range, how much to aim for at each meal across the day, and what that amount looks like in real food.

Worth two minutes if you've ever wondered whether the standard protein advice applies to you. It mostly doesn't — the usual figure was set for sedentary people and wasn't built with perimenopause in mind.
Based on Dr. Stacy Sims, PhD — How Much Protein Is Enough? and the published ranges cited within it.
Inside the Reset Kit

One that goes further

The Reset Kit is a paid set of guides and tools built around the five areas that most affect how you feel through perimenopause. This is the interactive piece inside it.

Included in the Reset Kit

The Cycle Intelligence Dashboard

Tell it when your last period started and it works out where you are in your cycle — then explains what's happening hormonally in that phase, what tends to feel harder right now, and which kind of training your body is best set up for this week.

Built on the published work of Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Vonda Wright, Dr. Natalie Crawford and Dr. Mary Claire Haver. Includes a phase-matched strength framework and weekly bone-density sessions.

The Reset Kit is launching soon

It isn't for sale yet. The people on the email list hear first, and the assessment is how you get on it.

Why tools

Because "it depends" isn't help

Almost every honest answer in women's health starts with "it depends" — on your age, your cycle, your symptoms, what else is going on. That's true, and it's useless when you're standing in your kitchen at 10pm trying to decide what to do differently tomorrow.

A tool is just a way of asking you the questions that the "it depends" was waiting on, and then giving you the answer that follows. Same research, same caution, minus the shrug.

Start with your own symptom pattern

It's the free one, it takes about four minutes, and everything else here makes more sense once you've seen it.

See my symptom pattern

Educational only. Not a diagnosis, and not a substitute for your doctor.