About Sycle Health Academy

A woman standing on the sandy beach in front of large green tropical plant leaves, wearing a bikini, denim jacket, and jewelry, with a cloudy sky and beach in the background.
A woman standing on the sandy beach in front of large green tropical plant leaves, wearing a bikini, denim jacket, and jewelry, with a cloudy sky and beach in the background.

Meet Monique, MSc.

Sycle Health Academy was born in 2026, on the day I stopped believing my body was the enemy, and started listening to my hormones.

I grew up watching my mom diet before I was even a teenager, and I learned the same lesson she did: restrict, hide it, lie about it, punish your body, repeat. For years I did everything the fitness industry told me to do: eat less, train harder, chase the number on the scale, and ignore every signal to stop that my body sent me. Because if what I was doing for fat loss wasn't working, I obviously just wasn't trying hard enough, right?

By my twenties I'd done every version of it myself: vegan, keto, deficits stacked on deficits, hours of cardio, thousands of dollars on health coaches who’d never actually addressed hormones or holistic health… or had theirs fall apart like mine did.

At 26, I was in full blown survival mode: broke, in a relationship that had taught me to ignore my own red flags, and running a business that wasn't working either. I was still training and eating like I owed my body a punishment, not an apology. This caught up with me. A severe ruptured ovarian cyst on my right ovary put me on bed rest for 4 weeks, and out of the gym for 4 months. I gained a lot of weight. This was the moment I was finally forced to stop and listen. It was the moment I realized there had never been anything wrong with me that more restriction was going to solve. I didn't need to work harder, I needed a completely different strategy. One built around my hormones and my cycle instead of against them. That shift didn't just change my body and help me lose over12 lbs. It changed how I thought, how I led my life, and eventually, the woman I became.

You think you have a problem losing weight…. But what you really have is a hormonal and metabolic imbalance the fitness industry & social media tells you to push through instead of listen to.

That's the gap I built Sycle Health Academy to close. The online coaching world is full of generic macros, one-size-fits-all training splits, and coaches who themselves likely have unaddressed hormonal issues. Women are told their bloating, their exhaustion, their mood swings, and their stalled progress are just "part of being a woman," then handed the same plan built for someone with none of the same biology, the same stress load, or the same season of life. That advice was never going to work, and it was never anyone's fault that it didn't. We weren’t taught this stuff in school. I spent an entire year deep diving into the scientific literature to learn everything about hormone healing, metabolism restoration and strength training for women.

Sycle Health Academy exists to help women stop fighting their bodies and start leading them. We start with your body, your cycle, and your patterns, not a template. We rebuild your nutrition and training around how YOUR BODY actually works, and we do the work underneath the binge-restrict cycle, because a meal plan was never going to fix what you believe about yourself deep down.

What matters most to us isn't another before and after photo. It's watching a woman go from believing her body is broken to knowing exactly how to read it. We are here here to make YOU the leader of your own health, in a body that responds, and that you finally trust!

Monique Bertin is founder & CEO of Sycle Health, Masters of Science, Certified Personal Trainer, and Women’s Health Advocate.