Phytoestrogens are plant compounds that can offer gentle, food-based support as your own oestrogen starts to fluctuate and decline. Oestrogen doesn't just switch off at menopause. Through perimenopause, often from your early-to-mid 40s, levels can swing high and low from month to month before settling lower after your final period.

What's Declining and What Actually Helps: Perimenopause is often talked about as one big hormonal event, but it isn't. It's several hormones moving at different speeds, for different reasons, over what is often called the "second puberty": a two-to-ten-year (sometimes longer) transition, not a single switch that flips.

Learn what GLP-1 does and how protein, fibre, balanced meals, and movement may support the body’s natural gut-hormone response