There is research.
There are tools that work.
Your age is not the limit.
SLOWageing
Evidence-based tools and protocols for women who want to stay strong, sharp and capable through their 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond.
Three free tools, live now
Each one runs in your browser, takes minutes, and collects nothing about you. No account, no email required, nothing to buy.
Lifespan
We track the science of ageing well, the new studies, the podcasts and the claims around them, and give each one a plain, sceptical 'our read'. Newest first, nothing to buy.
Body Baseline
Five home measurements become the numbers that matter more than the scales: body fat estimate, waist-to-hip ratio, daily energy needs and training zones, with a plain reading of where you stand.
SLOW moves
Tell it what you want to work on, where you exercise and anything to be careful of. It gives you a short list of sensible exercises with caution notes, and you build a starter mix of 3 to 6 to take to a trainer, physio or exercise physiologist.
The project
SLOWageing started with a question: why is so much health advice aimed at women either generic, patronising or flat-out wrong?
The project began with the book Fast Living, Slow Ageing, co-authored by Kate Marie and Professor Merlin Thomas. It grew into a research and education platform for women who want to make decisions about their health based on evidence, not marketing.
We've worked with thousands of women, run pilot programs, published research and built tools for personalised health assessment. Now we've rebooted with a tighter focus: practical, individualised tools grounded in your biology, your constraints, your life. The first three are live above.
What SLOW stands for
S. Strategic: informed choices based on your personal risk profile, not someone else's advice.
L. Lifespan management: your decades are a resource to manage, not a decline to soften. See what the research says →
O. Organised: stick to the plan, do the non-negotiables, stop chasing the next thing.
W. Willing: do the work. All of it. Including the parts you would rather skip.
What women told us
We asked thousands of women what concerns them most about ageing. Weight came up, but it wasn't at the top. What mattered more was keeping their minds sharp, their bodies strong and their independence intact.
Get your free ebook: Data Not Diets
Data Not Diets
Tech your way to weight loss. The free ebook from SLOWageing on using your own biological data, not another generic diet, to lose weight and keep it off.
Download the ebookGet the next tool when it ships
We are rebuilding SLOWageing around free tools like this one. Opt in and you get each new tool as it goes live, plus the Data Not Diets ebook. If you were on the old SLOWageing list, the same form puts you back on it.