I never used to think about menopause because it seemed so far away, and I just didn’t want to know. I’d not fully understood about perimenopause, which is that pre-phase before you get into menopause. The development of the perimenopause programme in my Jennis app came from listening to our customers saying, “we’re heading into this new phase where our cycles are changing massively, and we don’t have those distinctive four phases. How can you cater for us?” And that’s why we created a product to serve those women.
But perimenopause is the decrease of those hormones in an erratic and often rapid way. Hearing about it from the women we’ve spoken to who are going through perimenopause makes me realise that it can beif you don’t know what’s going on. So, the whole thing with understanding your hormones and being able to track them is that you start to notice changes and symptoms, and the way you’re feeling on a day-to-day basis, and you can pick up that you’re going into this phase – or if you’re in it – and start to address what to do next.
