09/08/2026
😨🌀Hot flashes, mood swings, sleepless nights – isn’t it strange that most of what gets said about perimenopause still sounds like a warning label?
👉 September is Perimenopause Awareness Month! And it’s worth pausing on the topic.
It can sound scary, it’s easy to feel alone in it… But let’s normalize it – women’s bodies deserve more attention than that.
What rarely gets said is that the body signals this shift earlier than that.
Perimenopause can start in a woman’s late 30s, and sleep changes first: in a large tracking study, six in ten women were already waking more through the night in the 18 months before menopause, long before anyone had a name for what was happening.
Underneath it is a nervous system doing overtime.
Hot flashes – which affect roughly three in four women in this transition – are small surges of sympathetic activity, the same signal that spikes during a stressful meeting or a near miss in traffic.
💙 Heart rate variability , the metric Welltory has always tracked, lives right in that same signal – showing up in the data long before it shows up as a symptom.
When did you first notice something had shifted? Tell us in the comments, if you feel comfortable.
