Part 3: Perimenopause 101: How and Why Your Cycle Starts to Change

Dishing Up Nutrition

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.

Nutrition, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this final episode of our 3-part series on menstrual health, we’re diving into the later menstruating years - aka perimenopause. If your once-predictable cycle has become irregular, heavier, shorter, or totally unpredictable, you’re not alone - and you’re not imagining things. Licensed nutritionists Kara Carper and Leah Kleinschrodt unpack what’s actually happening with your hormones during perimenopause, why symptoms like sleep struggles, mood swings, and heavier periods can show up, and how nutrition can help you feel more balanced through the transition.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.
0:14.4	We are a Minnesota company that specializes in real food, nutrition, education, and counseling.
0:21.2	I'm Leah Kleintrow, registered, and licensed dietitian, and I am here today with my partner
0:26.3	in crime and co-host Kara Kara Karpur. It's good to see you again, Kara.
0:30.7	Great to see you, Leah. Nice to be here. I'm really excited about our topic today.
0:35.9	I know you're going to introduce it, but I just want to start out by saying it's relevant to me personally because I'm really excited about our topic today. I know you're going to introduce it, but I just want to start out by saying it's relevant to me personally because I have a teen daughter and I am recently menopausal.
0:45.1	So we'll give listeners a little tease on what our topic will be.
0:48.6	And maybe a little insight into what that looks like in your household, the kind of two ends of the
0:54.9	spectrum with that.
0:56.1	Yeah.
0:56.5	Yeah.
0:57.3	Yeah.
0:57.7	Absolutely.
0:58.3	Yeah.
0:58.4	Today we're tackling a huge topic that it's at the forefront, I would say, of probably
1:04.2	most of our female clients that we work with, not everybody, but a really good chunk.
1:09.5	And for listeners, if you've been following along with the show
1:13.1	for the last few months, hopefully you'll have noticed some of the patterns we've been in these last
1:18.0	few months with the shows. We first started in February talking about what a healthy menstrual cycle
1:24.3	looks like and how our nutrition ties into those monthly hormonal fluctuations.
1:30.2	So that's how we set the stage. I guess we can consider that a part one. And then in March,
1:35.5	the next month, we focused in on just a few of the common menstrual conditions that we see with
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