Welcome to the RU. Menstrual podcast where we dive deep into all things women's health to support you on your healing journey.

I'm Amanda Montalvo, functional and integrative dietitian, also known as the hormone healing RD.

If you enjoy this podcast and you want to keep learning, check out the podcast Patreon where I share a bonus episode with additional downloadable resources each week.

You can go to patreon.com forward slash hormone healing RD or check out the link in the show notes.

All right. In this episode, I'm covering a common question I get from this community, and that is,

how can I prepare my body for perimenopause

and actually going through menopause? How do I ease this transition? So I'm going to break down

how to figure out when this transition may start for you, areas you want to consider focusing on,

and then basically what a healthy cycle looks like, what it looks like when it becomes out of

balance and when we start to go through menopause and then what we can do to support our bodies.

As always, I'm a dietitian, but I'm not your dietitian.

So make sure you discuss any changes you may want to make to your health with your provider.

Okay, let's start with the transition timing, because I feel like this is something that

I don't hear disgust enough, and it's usually a lot of fearmongering involved, and I don't want

anyone to feel scared with this information. It's more just to empower you and to help you

understand if you do see some shifts in your cycle, maybe you have some extra stress in your

life and you are within this window of perimenopause potentially based on when your mom went

through menopause, that it's like, hey, it's time to get really serious and take a look at

how you're eating, how you're living, and what we can do to support your body so that you can

put off this transition

and make hormones for as long as you possibly can and be healthy and not go through menopause

early because I am seeing it more and more where women are going through menopause at a much

...