Perimenopause and menopause can feel like your body has changed the rules overnight - hot flushes, brain fog, mood swings, and now your gut seems to be in revolt. Emerging research shows this isn’t “just aging”: hormonal shifts during midlife profoundly alter the gut microbiome, increasing inflammation, changing how you process oestrogen, and triggering symptoms from IBS flares to histamine intolerance. Understanding this hormone-gut connection is the first step to easing digestive chaos, supporting your microbiome, and feeling at home in your body again. In this blog, we unpack the science, the packaging, and the practical takeaways every practitioner should know. Because when it comes to probiotics, the question isn’t just “is it working?” - it’s “is it working for this person, in this form, at this time?”.