Hello beautiful reader,
If you’ve found this page, you’re likely curious, confused, or even a little scared about menopause or perimenopause. Maybe your periods have started acting strange. Maybe you’re feeling hot flashes, choppy sleep, or moods you don’t recognize.
I’m Kirti, a certified holistic nutritionist and founder of Kukclean. I started this company after my daughter Akriti’s birth – when I realized how little I knew about nourishing my own body through life’s seasons. Now, as I enter my own perimenopause phase, that same lack of awareness hit me again.
No one prepared me for this transition. The silence, the fear, the myths. So I decided to break it – by writing a series of letters to Akriti at 40. When she reaches this season (India’s average menopause age is 38-52), she’ll have clear words from her mother, not confusion from silence.
Women 38+ reading now – these letters are for you too. Knowledge steals fear’s power.
To make this journey gentle, Let’s sit down with a chamomile tea and picture this – your body is like a beautiful garden, you have tended for 40 years. For decades your ovaries have been like two busy flower factories, churning our eggs every month and releasing two main hormones :estrogen (the bloom maker) and progesterone ( the protector). These hormones tell your body, we are in our fertile season – everything is growing.
Let me explain what is perimenopause before I deep dive into the hormones harmony.
One day the factories starts slowing down. Not because they are broken but because they’ve done their job. They’ve made life possible. Now they’re transitioning to quieter season. This is perimenopause -the years leading upto to menopause oftenstarts in late 30’s and early 40’s.
The garden starts whispering changes – basically it shows perimenopause symptoms.
- Periods get irregular (shorter, longer, lighter, heavier).
- You might feel hot flashes ( like internal summer), Sleep get choppy, moods swing or belly fat sneaks in.
All starts adjusting to lower steadier hormone levels. Its like moving from monsoon to winters -everyhting feels different but its still your garden. Then comes menopause itself – The official milestone. Its not a single day , its when you’ve got 12 full months without a period. Your Ovaries say we’ve done releasing eggs. Estrogen drops significantly ( from 400 pg/ml to 20 -30 pg/ml) progesterone even lower.
But there is the comforting part, This isn’t the end of your garden – Its post bloom season. Its flower may change but now you nurture roots (Bones), Soil (Gut) & sunlight (energy) with clean eating, movement, sleep rituals & community support, You thrive here. Many women say their 50’s feel freer, wiser, lighter.
Your Body isn’t betraying you -its graduating to wisdom.
I am sure you must be wondering why I called estrogen as a bloom maker and progesterone as the protector – Well, thats in my next story.
Your nutritionist Mamma – Kirti
