Rach Jobling

Rach Jobling Helping women in their 30’s+ 40’s to master their metabolism, lose weight and regain their energy.

24/06/2026

A little client recap..

Like so many of my clients, she came to me on the Pill for endo.

Flat. Tired. Zero s*x drive. Gaining weight despite doing everything “right.”

Her GP said everything was normal.

Her labs told a very different story.

→ SHBG 4x the top of range = testosterone completely inactivated
→ Free testosterone essentially zero = no drive, no motivation, no libido
→ Oestrogen suppressed = affecting her metabolism, insulin sensitivity + fat distribution
→ LH + FSH

I recently got to sit down with Erica from The Sear Movement — a podcast celebrating women in all seasons of life, and w...
18/06/2026

I recently got to sit down with Erica from The Sear Movement — a podcast celebrating women in all seasons of life, and we went places I rarely get to go in a single conversation.

We talked about the very first signs of perimenopause that most women don’t connect to their hormones. The symptoms that get dismissed, misdiagnosed, or explained away — until years later when the picture finally makes sense.

We talked about what’s actually happening hormonally. Why symptoms feel so unpredictable. Why you might not feel like yourself anymore. How your nervous system and stress response are right in the middle of all of it.

We went into the things women are afraid to ask about. Weight. Brain fog. Sleep. Libido. Rage. Feeling disconnected from your partner, your body, your own identity.

And we talked about what’s actually helping and what women are being told that is quietly making things worse.

If you’ve been in that “something feels off but I can’t explain it” place then this one’s for you.

Head over to her page to have a listen ❤️

12/06/2026

If you’re on the pill and your mood is still a mess this is probably why 👀

The synthetic progestin in your pill is not the same as progesterone. Not structurally. Not neurologically. Not in what it does in your brain.

Real progesterone converts to allopregnanolone ie your body’s natural calming molecule that quiets your GABA receptors and settles your nervous system in the second half of your cycle.

Synthetic progestins don’t make that conversion. They can do their job in the uterus. But they cannot replicate what real progesterone does in your brain.

This is why so many women on the pill for PMDD, endo, or painful periods still feel flat, anxious, and unlike themselves, because the molecule that should be calming your nervous system simply isn’t there.

When I work with women in this picture, here’s what we’re actually looking at —

→ Your full hormone panel tested at the right time in your cycle (although when on the pill this is impacted)
→ Your liver’s oestrogen clearance pathways ie Phase I and Phase II detoxification
→ Your methylation markers ie the B vitamins that drive COMT and oestrogen metabolism
→ Your gut, because dysbiosis directly worsens oestrogen dominance and PMDD symptoms
→ Your nervous system baseline — because a dysregulated HPA axis makes every hormonal symptom worse

The pill is not the enemy. But understanding what it can and can’t do and supporting your body properly while you’re on it changes EVERYTHING.

Save this if you’re on the pill and haven’t felt like yourself in a while.

27/05/2026

Most women come to me convinced it’s a hormone problem.

And in many ways they are right.

But what gets missed almost every single time is that the nervous system and hormones aren’t separate conversations. They’re the same one.

When your body is in chronic stress mode, your hormonal picture will reflect that. And when your hormones are dysregulated, your nervous system feels every bit of it. They talk to each other constantly. They worsen each other quietly. And standard blood panels almost never catch the full picture of both.

Here are five things I see repeatedly in clinic that tell me a woman’s nervous system has been running the show for a long time:

1. You’re tired but you can’t switch off.
You hit 9pm exhausted — then lie awake thinking. This isn’t a sleep hygiene problem. This is a cortisol pattern. It should be low at night. In a lot of the women I work with, it isn’t.

2. You feel anxious for no reason.
Not stressed about something specific. Just a low-level hum of dread that you’ve started to think is just your personality. It’s not. It’s often a progesterone, cortisol, or blood sugar story — and the labs show it.

3. Your energy crashes between 2 and 4pm.
Like clockwork. You’ve blamed lunch, your mattress, not enough coffee. This is your cortisol curve. We can actually map it.

4. You’re reactive in a way that doesn’t feel like you.
Short fuse. Overwhelmed easily. Crying at things that wouldn’t normally touch you. This is what chronic nervous system activation does to your hormonal environment, and it’s reversible once you can see it.

5. You’ve been told your bloods are fine.
And yet. You know something is off. You’ve known for a while. “Fine” on a standard panel and “optimal for a woman living in a chronically activated state” are genuinely different readings. I look at both.

This is exactly what Functional Testing is designed to map. Not just your TSH or your s*x hormones. The full picture.

If you’ve been sitting in that space of something is wrong but no one has found it yet — DM me the word LABS. I’ll tell you honestly whether this is the right next step for you.

21/05/2026

Part #2

What actually moved the needle for me looked like this 👇

→ Getting my hormone bloods done so I actually knew what I was working with
→ Using targeted supplements + fibre to support estrogen metabolism through the liver
→ Supporting progesterone with body identical progesterone and B vitamins
→ Calming my cortisol response — because a stressed nervous system tanks progesterone
→ Shifting to an anti-inflammatory way of eating (goodbye frozen shoulders, hello functional gut)

None of this was a quick fix. But once I understood why my body was doing what it was doing, I could actually work with it.

If you recognise yourself in any of these five signs ie the weight, the sleep, the period pain, the inflammation, the exhaustion, this is your sign to stop guessing and get some answers.

I have one spot left in functional testing this round. DM ‘testing’ if you want it or ‘labs’ if you want me to send my lab manual.

20/05/2026

PART #1

This was me for longer than I’d like to admit.

Weight creeping up with no clear reason. Waking up at 3am. Periods that floored me ie heavy bleeding, back pain that had me on the couch. Shoulders so inflamed I couldn’t lift my arms properly. And exhausted in a way that sleep didn’t fix.

These were all signs that my estrogen and progesterone were out of balance and my body wasn’t clearing estrogen the way it should.

Part #2 I’ll share what I actually did to support my oestrogen/hormones .

Ps There’s currently one spot remaining for Functional Testing if you are wanting some real answers too. Let me know 🤍
Closing off spots tomorrow night.

19/05/2026

If you too are wondering why you are crashing at 2pm, most days one of these 3 things could be to blame for both spiking your cortisol every morning and causing a flow on affect that results in the dreaded 2pm crashout.

What you need to know - your cortisol peaks within 30 minutes of waking. This is important.

Because it means what you do first thing in the morning is directly affecting your hormones, your weight, your mood and your energy for the entire day 🤯

👉Scrolling before you eat? Cortisol spike.
👉Coffee on an empty stomach? Cortisol spike.
👉Rushing out the door without eating? Cortisol spike.

And yes, your cortisol is supposed to spike in the morning. That’s your body doing its job. The problem is when it stays high, spikes again and again, or never comes back down.

What to do instead:

☀️ Get morning light within 10 minutes of waking.
🍳 Eat protein + fibre within 30-60 minutes.
☕️Hold the coffee for at least an hour. Or eat it with your breakfast
🏋️‍♂️Move your body — even a 10 minute walk/stretch or weight session counts.

These four things alone will change how you feel by midday.

Save this. Your future self will thank you.

Every January. Every Monday. Every time you feel like you’ve lost control of your body.Another detox. Another reset. Ano...
13/05/2026

Every January. Every Monday. Every time you feel like you’ve lost control of your body.
Another detox. Another reset. Another fresh start that lasts eleven days.

The problem isn’t your willpower. It was never your dedication. It was that a detox addresses none of the things your body is actually asking for.

Stable blood sugar. Repaired sleep. Cortisol that isn’t running the show. Boundaries that protect your energy before anyone else gets access to it.

These aren’t habits you add on top of your life. They’re the foundation your hormones have been waiting for.
Swipe to see what actually moves the needle.

Comment Reset and I’ll send you my 3 Day Hormone Reset so you know exactly where to start.

The diet you’ve been on since 2015 is the reason your body stopped responding.I said what I said…. It’s not your ‘willpo...
11/05/2026

The diet you’ve been on since 2015 is the reason your body stopped responding.

I said what I said….

It’s not your ‘willpower’. Not your discipline. It’s the diet itself.

When you eat next to nothing for long enough, your metabolism adapts. It learns to run on restriction. And then it protects fat instead of releasing it.

So you eat a smaller amount again. Nothing shifts. You eat even less. Still nothing.

You’re not failing. That’s biology doing exactly what it was designed to do.

What actually changes body composition is different to what you were told.

It’s meal timing. It’s your macro split. It’s blood sugar stability across the day. It’s nervous system regulation and hormone awareness. But it starts with the right kind of nutrition, if this isn’t prioritised the rest will fall down.

Nobody put that on the low-calorie plan they handed you ten years ago.

If your body has stopped responding to the approach that used to work, this is a big reason why.

Save this. Come back to it when someone tells you to just eat less. 🫣

Have you also been handed the fine card one too many times 🤪Your bloods came back normal (again). You were told there wa...
06/05/2026

Have you also been handed the fine card one too many times 🤪

Your bloods came back normal (again). You were told there was nothing to worry about. But you’re still exhausted by midday, your weight won’t shift, your sleep is broken, and something just feels off. Normal on paper. Not fine in your body.

The reference ranges on a standard panel are designed to rule out disease. Not to tell you whether your body is actually functioning the way it should. Those are two completely different questions and routine testing only answers one of them.

Ferritin without transferrin saturation. Estradiol without progesterone. Fasting insulin that never got ordered. Vitamin D sitting at 50. B12 that looks fine in total but hasn’t been tested in its active form.

This is just some of what gets missed. Not because something was done wrong. Because the system wasn’t built to look for it.

Save this one. And if you’ve been told you’re fine but you know you’re not — drop a comment below.

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