About the Institute
A publishing home for clear writing on women's strength and longevity. The name describes the subject. It does not describe a campus, a hospital department, or a laboratory.
Mission
Women make decisions about strength training, bone health, and fitness that last for years, often without a clear account of what the published research actually supports. Our mission is to write that account.
We are an independent education platform based in Australia. We select topics, read the peer-reviewed literature, and explain it carefully — including where the evidence is thin, conflicting, or drawn from people who do not resemble the reader.
What this is
The work is editorial. We synthesise research that already exists. We do not present experiments of our own, and we do not imply a larger organisation than the founding edition can stand up.
Readers should be able to leave any briefing, open the sources, and judge the claim for themselves. That standard is described on the evidence and research approach page.
Founders
The Institute is curated by its two founders, Megan and Peter Brown. They choose the topics, read the published research, and write or edit what appears here, drawing on more than a decade of coaching women.
They will lead the Institute's editorial work until other suitably qualified contributors join the project.
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Megan Brown
Megan has worked in the fitness industry since 2013 and has owned and run body transformation businesses since 2014. She is a qualified Metabolic Nutritionist with certifications in personal training and body transformation, and she trained under Dr Paul Cribb and Sharlene Sault, who named her Female Transformation Specialist of the Year in 2019.
In 2017, 18 months after the birth of her second child, Megan was diagnosed with chronic fatigue. Rebuilding her own strength and energy, with healthcare guidance, shaped how she coaches: train at the level a woman can currently recover from.
She created the FitMum Method to help mums rebuild strength after pregnancy, and leads coaching at The Evolved All Female Gym in Brisbane, where she has worked with women from their teens to post-menopause.
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Peter Brown
Peter holds Certificates III and IV in Fitness and the ISSN Sports Nutrition Specialist certification. Through Metabolic Precision, he completed Metabolic Nutritionist (Level 1), Transformation Specialist (Level 2), Athletic Conditioning Specialist (Level 3) and Level 4, which included Applied Kinesiology and Advanced Supplementation Specialist certificates.
He co-owns The Evolved All Female Gym with Megan and designs its programmes, offers and systems.
Scope and boundaries
Please read these limits as part of the mission, not as small print.
- We are an independent publisher and educator.
- We are not a clinic, and we do not provide clinical services.
- We are not accredited by a training, medical, or educational body.
- We are not a research institute. We do not run trials, and there is no research team here conducting studies.
- We synthesise published research. We do not dress commentary up as original science.
How to use what we publish
Briefings are for general education. They are not medical advice, and they are not a personal programme. Training history, injuries, medicines, and health conditions change what is sensible.
Decisions about your health and training belong with you, and with a qualified health professional who can assess you in person. If you are unwell, in pain, or unsure whether a form of exercise is appropriate, start there — not with a page on this site.
Founding stage
The public site is intentionally small. We would rather state our standards clearly than imply a staff, a faculty, or a record of trials we do not have.
If you want to follow the work, write to us and ask to join the founding reader list. The list is not a form yet. Details are on the contact page.