#31 The Truth About Perimenopause and Poo No One’s Told You

This week I’m joined by Sheradyn Dekker, a Functional Nutritionist specialising in gut health and hormonal imbalances. Sheradyn holds a Masters in Nutrition with postgraduate training in Functional Diagnostic Nutrition and brings both clinical expertise and lived experience after years of chronic gut pain, IBS, bloating, missing periods, and food intolerances.In this conversation, we unpack why digestive symptoms so often worsen in perimenopause, how gut health, hormones, stress, and the nervous system are deeply intertwined, and why so many women are told their symptoms are “normal” when they’re not. Sheradyn explains what a true root-cause approach looks like, why quick fixes and band-aid solutions fail, and how functional testing (including comprehensive stool, thyroid, and hormone labs) can help identify underlying imbalances that appear as disconnected symptoms.This episode is for midlife women who are tired of managing symptoms and want to understand what their body is actually communicating.You can find Sheradyn here:Website: sheradyndekker.comInstagram: @sheradyn_functionalnutrition