Knowing Your Body: Personalized Supplements and Advocating for Yourself in Women's Healthcare

Personalized supplements for women's health are everywhere right now, but Suzie Welsh Devine, RN, MSN built the first one. In 2016 she founded Binto because she kept watching women get handed a generic prenatal, a one-size multivitamin, and a twelve-minute appointment, then sent home to figure out the rest on Google at midnight. In this episode we talk about what personalized actually means, how to read your own cycle, and what genuinely changes from your period years through perimenopause. When is the last time a provider asked what you actually need? Not the protocol. Not the standard dose. Not what they recommend to every woman your age. You. For a lot of us, the honest answer is never. That gap, between what women need and what we actually get, is the whole reason Suzie built Binto. Suzie Welsh Devine is the founder and CEO of Binto, the first personalized women's health supplement brand, formulated and founded by licensed providers. She is a former IVF and fertility nurse who spent years at the bedside before deciding to build the thing she kept wishing existed for her patients. What she brings to this conversation is a clinician's eye and a refusal to oversell. She reads labs before she recommends anything. She builds for prevention rather than prescription. And she will tell you plainly where supplements actually help and where they are just marketing dressed up as science. Together we talk candidly about: What "personalized" actually requires clinically, and what it does not mean The myth that a prescription prenatal is automatically better than what you can buy over the counter Why your menstrual cycle is a vital sign, plus a clear walk through all four phases What really shifts in perimenopause, and why brain fog is not in your head HRT after the black box warning came off, and what to keep supplementing alongside it Why vitamin D and K2 belong together Supporting your micronutrients if you are on a GLP-1 The standouts most women benefit from at a baseline, from a daily probiotic to omega-3s to inositol How to tell normal post-meal bloat from something worth taking to a doctor You will walk away knowing more about your own body than most of us were ever taught, and with a clearer sense of what to actually ask for the next time you are in front of a provider. Links & resources Binto: https://mybinto.com Suzie on Instagram: @nursesuziedevine Binto on Instagram: @mybinto Suzie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzie-welsh-devine-3419178/ From our cabinet to yours: We have both been on our own Binto routines, and the thing that won us over is that it starts with what your body actually needs and skips what it does not. If you want a routine built around you instead of an average, listeners get 25% off with code maam25 at https://mybinto.com/discount/maam25 Code: MAAM25 If this episode resonated, subscribe wherever you listen, leave us a review, and share it with a mother who needs to hear this. Reviews genuinely help other women find the show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mighty-as-a-mother/id1687678053