Reclaim Your Rhythm: Why Women Over 40 Need a Different Health Strategy Than Men

Most women over 40 are burned out, stuck, and blaming themselves for not being able to “keep up.”

But here’s the truth: You’ve been following a health and fitness model designed for men.
Their bodies run on a 24-hour cycle. Yours doesn’t.

You have a second biological clock—a powerful internal rhythm that repeats every 28 days. It’s called the infradian rhythm, and it changes how your brain works, how your body burns fat, how much energy you have, and how your hormones operate every single week.

Ignoring this rhythm is why you feel out of sync, no matter how “healthy” you try to be.

What Is the Infradian Rhythm?

The infradian rhythm is your monthly hormonal blueprint.
Unlike the circadian rhythm (which runs on a 24-hour loop), the infradian rhythm shifts week to week and affects:

• 🔥 Metabolism – Your calorie needs change across your cycle

• 🧠 Brain function – Mood, focus, and memory fluctuate with hormones

• 💪 Fitness capacity – You burn fat better and build muscle faster in certain phases

• ❤️ Social energy – There are ideal times for connection vs. reflection

• 🛌 Sleep & recovery – Sleep needs and stress tolerance vary each week

Yet almost no mainstream advice takes this into account.

Why the 24-Hour Model Fails Women Over 40

Let’s be blunt: most fitness and nutrition advice is based on the male model.
It assumes consistent hormone levels, constant energy output, and “push harder” mentalities.

But for women in perimenopause and beyond, this leads to:

• Chronic fatigue

• Burnout

• Plateaus in weight loss

• Heightened PMS or mood swings

• Hormone imbalances that spiral

You’re not broken. You’ve just been following the wrong blueprint.

Whether you still have a cycle, it’s irregular, or you haven’t seen it in months—you still have an infradian rhythm. And the secret is learning how to work with it, not against it.

This is where cycle syncing comes in.

You can align your food, fitness, work, and self-care routines with the natural phases of your 28-day hormonal pattern (or moon cycle if your period is missing). When you do:

• Workouts feel easier and more effective

• Weight loss starts to stick

• Mood stabilizes

• PMS symptoms ease

• You feel more like yourself again

  Reclaiming Your Rhythm in Perimenopause & Beyond

  Whether you still have a cycle, it’s irregular, or you haven’t seen it in months—you still have an infradian rhythm.
  And the secret is learning how to work with it, not against it.

  This is where cycle syncing comes in.

  You can align your food, fitness, work, and self-care routines with the natural phases of your 28-day hormonal pattern (or moon cycle if your period is missing). When you do:

  • Workouts feel easier and more effective

  • Weight loss starts to stick

  • Mood stabilizes

  • PMS symptoms ease

  • You feel more like yourself again

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  What This Looks Like in Action:

  In your 40s, you need a flexible, phase-based approach—not rigid meal plans or bootcamp burnout.

  You might eat more carbs and do strength training in one phase…
  Then focus on rest, protein, and walking in another.

  You might plan social events during your ovulatory phase…
  And carve out alone time when progesterone peaks.

  It’s about flow, not force.

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  Start Your Hormone Reset

  If your body feels like a mystery, it’s time to decode it.

  ✅ Take the Hormone Blueprint Quiz to identify where you’re out of sync
  ✅ Get my free Cycle Syncing Quickstart Guide to begin supporting your infradian rhythm
  ✅ Book your $99 Hormone Blueprint Session and get a custom plan that works with your midlife body

  You don’t need another diet.
  You need a new rhythm.
  Let’s reclaim it together.