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Sally O'Neil 🧬Clinical Nutritionist (BHSc) for women 35+
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20/10/2026

Sound familiar?

Here’s where the science gets interesting. 🧠

Chronic stress can affect sleep, mood regulation and how effectively we respond to everyday challenges.

And while we can’t supplement our way out of an overloaded lifestyle, certain nutrients and botanical extracts may offer additional support.

One I’m particularly interested in is SAFFRON. 🌸

Research into standardised saffron extracts suggests potential benefits for:

✨ Mood regulation: Saffron’s active compounds may influence serotonin signalling, which plays a role in emotional wellbeing.

✨ Stress response: Emerging research suggests saffron may help support a healthier psychological response to stress.

✨ Sleep quality: Some clinical trials have found improvements in self-reported sleep quality.

✨ Nervous system health: Saffron contains antioxidant compounds that may help protect cells from oxidative stress.

These aren’t just traditional herbal claims. They’re areas being investigated in human clinical trials, although results depend on the extract, dose and population studied.

As a clinical nutritionist, I’m fascinated by the connection between stress, mood, sleep and women’s hormonal health, particularly as we approach perimenopause.

That’s one of the reasons I’m proud to co-own Hivita, where we’ve developed a range of supplements designed to support women’s wellbeing.

🌿 Hivita Saffron is worth exploring if you’re looking for additional support for your mood and emotional wellbeing.

And because we believe in our products, we offer a 100% money-back guarantee.

💬 Comment SAFFRON below if you’d like to learn more.

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Swipe for the 10 things I had to unlearn. →here’s what I wish more women understood… Xx Clinical Nutritionist BHSc / Per...
17/10/2026

Swipe for the 10 things I had to unlearn. →
here’s what I wish more women understood… Xx

Clinical Nutritionist BHSc / Perimenopause

I used to wake up the next morning feeling like I needed to make up for it. Less food. More cardio. More guilt. Now I just get on with my life.

One meal out could turn into an entire weekend of thinking I’d ruined everything. I finally realised consistency isn’t about never slipping up. It’s about not turning one imperfect choice into five days of giving up.

I wasn’t lazy. I was trying to follow routines that didn’t fit my life. Eating too little, expecting too much and wondering why I couldn’t keep it up. I needed a better strategy, not another motivational quote.

This one took me the longest to unlearn. Because every time I got there, I found something else to fix. Another kilo. Another body part. Another reason I wasn’t quite enough.

I spent years treating numbers on an app as more important than the signals my own body was giving me. Sometimes I was genuinely hungry. And sometimes I just needed to eat more.

There was a time when being thinner felt like being better. More disciplined. More desirable. More successful. I wish I could tell that version of myself how much life she was missing.

I’d wake up feeling great, step on the scales and suddenly hate everything I saw in the mirror. Imagine giving a number that much power over your happiness.

Bread. Pasta. Chocolate. A glass of w**e with friends. I spent so long believing discipline meant saying no. Turns out, learning how to include these things was what made consistency possible.

Different hormones. Different responsibilities. Different life. I stopped expecting my body to look exactly the same while everything around it had changed.

I’d squeeze in another workout even when I was exhausted. Now I prioritise strength training, recovery and actually enjoying movement. My body doesn’t need to be punished into changing.

here’s what I wish more women understood:

You can want to lose body fat without spending your entire life trying to become someone you’re finally happy with. 🫶

Which one hit home for you? I think mine will always be number 6. 🤍

Clinical Nutritionist BHSc / Perimenopause x

17/10/2026

I’m almost 40, and I genuinely think I look and feel better than I did at 30.

Not because I found some magical anti-ageing hack. But because I stopped doing things that were working against me.

Here are 15 of them:

1. Eating 1,200 calories and calling it discipline.
2. Prioritising cardio over strength training.
3. Being scared of carbohydrates.
4. Skipping meals to “save calories” for later.
5. Training harder when my body was already exhausted.
6. Treating protein as optional.
7. Thinking the number on the scale defined my progress.
8. Drinking alcohol every weekend and wondering why my sleep was rubbish.
9. Ignoring how my menstrual cycle affects my appetite, energy and training.
10. Believing Pilates alone would build the muscle I wanted.
11. Sacrificing sleep to squeeze in another workout.
12. Starting a new diet every Monday.
13. Expecting supplements to compensate for poor nutrition.
14. Comparing my body to women 10 years younger.
15. Thinking getting older meant accepting feeling worse.

The biggest shift?

I stopped trying to make my body smaller and started investing in making it stronger.

More muscle. Better recovery. Enough food. Consistency over perfection.

Your 40s aren’t an expiry date. And your best body doesn’t have to be behind you.

I’m Sally, a clinical nutritionist helping women over 35 understand their hormones, lose body fat and build bodies they actually love living in.

Follow Clinical Nutritionist BHSc / Perimenopause for evidence-based nutrition, fat loss and hormone health without the BS.

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