Gita’s story
The perimenopause symptoms I didn’t expect, and what food changed
At 37, my body stopped making sense — periods every 14 days, night sweats every night, hair falling out in handfuls. I had no idea that real food could change all of it.
Before Neeshi
- Periods every 14 days, lasting 10 days
- Soaking a super plus pad every 45-90 minutes
- Bedridden 3 days each cycle
- Hair falling out in handfuls, running on empty
- Waking drenched in night sweats
- Exhausted, no energy
After Neeshi
- Periods back to once a month
- Days that finally felt manageable
- Comfortable cycles, no missed days
- Energy and hair restored
- Sleeping through the night
- Feeling like herself again
My periods were coming every 14 days and lasting 10 days at a time. The cramps left me bedridden for three days every cycle. My flow was so heavy I was soaking a #5 super plus pad every 45 to 90 minutes. My hair was falling out in handfuls. I was running on empty. Every night I was waking up drenched in sweat, pajamas and sheet felt like a pool of sweat. The night sweats were relentless.
I was already building Neeshi for my daughter Anjali, researching how cacao, flaxseed, and pumpkin seeds support hormonal balance. So I started testing the products myself.
Within a week, I slept through the night for the first time in months.
Over the following cycles my periods returned to once a month. My cycle finally felt manageable. I went from planning my life around my flow to days that finally felt manageable. The cramps, gone. The night sweats faded. My energy came back. I felt like myself again.
Then I started noticing the same symptoms in the women around me. A friend describing those same 2am wakeups, soaked through her pajamas. Another dealing with flooding I recognized from my worst months. I realized my experience wasn’t rare, it was just something women were suffering through alone, not knowing food could change it.
Anjali and I decided to find out if Neeshi could work for more than just us. We recruited 18 women spanning all ages and ethnicities† and asked them to use Neeshi daily for 3 full cycles while we collected regular data points. We prepared to analyze the results.
What we didn’t prepare for were the texts.
“I never thought I could feel this great in perimenopause.”
Women reaching out on their own, mid-cycle, because something had shifted and they had to tell someone. The data confirmed what they were feeling. But those unprompted messages were the proof we really needed.
- Gita, Founder of Neeshi
If any part of my before sounds like you right now, this is for you. My experience is my own; individual results vary.
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