For the woman who knows something is off, and has been told she’s fine.
A practitioner-led wellness brand for women 35 to 55. Founded by a naturopath of fifteen years, now in perimenopause herself.
The woman who walks into our clinic is the most informed customer the wellness industry has ever had. She has read the books. She tracks her cycle. She has tried the supplements and quietly thrown most of them out. What she has been missing, from everyone, is the basic respect of being taken seriously.
The perimenopausal transition is the most under-served stage in women's health. It begins on average ten years before the final period, and most doctors are trained to recognise the endpoint rather than the long middle. We are working to close that gap.
We believe in clinically meaningful doses, named on the front of the pack. If a study used 600mg of KSM-66 ashwagandha, we use 600mg of KSM-66 ashwagandha. The industry word for doing otherwise is fairy-dusting. We keep our distance from it.
We believe in patience over promises. Hormonal health takes weeks to shift, and we would rather lose an impulse purchase than make a claim we cannot keep.
We believe the practitioner should be visible. The naturopath who formulated the product should be the one teaching you about it, taking your call, signing your emails.
We believe in saying less and meaning more. There is enough noise in this category. We would rather write three considered things than thirty loud ones.
I’m a naturopath. Fifteen years in practice. Forty-two now, and in perimenopause myself.
The first sign was the sleep. I’d fall asleep fine and wake at 3am, every night, wide awake. I told myself it was the kids. Then the new business. Then the wine. I cut the wine and the wake-ups continued, so I had to find another reason. I didn’t.
The brain fog came next. I forgot the word calendar in a client meeting and had to call it “the thing where you write down dates”. The client laughed. I laughed. I went home and cried in the car.
I was forty-one, I had every textbook on the subject, and I still walked through it convinced something else was wrong with me. That is how perimenopause works, even on the people trained to recognise it.
What I needed was a brand I trusted enough to use myself. One that disclosed its doses on the front of the pack. One that wasn’t asking me to take fourteen capsules a day. I went looking, and everything fell short of my own standard. So I made it.
That is what Valentia is. Small. Practitioner-formulated. Doses you can read on the label. I formulate every product. I write every email. The model is intentional; a small practice that grows slowly because the work is slow.
Davina Hearne, Naturopath (Diploma, NZ)
Educational content only. Structure and function claims only. Davina is a NZ-trained naturopath, and educational content does not replace medical care.
Valentia is in active development.
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