For fifteen years, I lived with migraines no one could explain.

Neurologists, scans, medications - nothing helped.

The last specialist I saw told me there was nothing left to try, except psychotherapy.

That answer wasn’t good enough.

So I did what I’ve always done as an investigative journalist - I started looking for patterns.

That search pulled me into the then-nascent world of biohacking - a field obsessed with optimization but not yet inclusive of women’s biology.

I tracked everything: food, sleep, fasting, supplements.

But most of the advice and research in that space came from men, tested on male bodies.

Following it pushed my body further out of sync instead of helping me heal.

That disconnect taught me something crucial: women are not small men, and it’s time science stopped treating us that way.

Our Mission

It took persistence, curiosity, and the rise of AI to solve what medicine couldn’t.

Using biometric data from my wearable and a prototype of what would become Pause Whisperer, I asked an AI model to look for correlations I might have missed.

The AI found what years of medicine hadn’t: my migraines appeared during the PMS phase - when estrogen is lowest - and on nights when I got little deep sleep.

It connected hormones, sleep, and pain - and it told me why.

A mystery that had followed me for 15 years, solved by adaptive AI trained to listen to a woman’s physiology.

Identifying the problem enabled me to create a prevention plan, and that moment changed everything.

Why Pause Whisperer Exists

I realized that if AI could uncover my hormonal patterns, it could do the same for millions of women in perimenopause - women whose shifting biology has been ignored or treated as an inconvenience.

I built Pause Whisperer for them: a platform that turns everyday wearable data into insight, using AI designed to understand irregularity, complexity, and the intelligence of women’s bodies.

But I didn’t stop at personal insight. I wanted to create something bigger - an ecosystem where personal intelligence meets collective intelligence, where what one woman learns can help millions.

To build technology that honors biology and redefines what it means to be in rhythm with yourself.

Meet the Team

Built for the Complexity Science Ignored

For decades, women’s health research filtered out the very things that define women’s real lives.

To keep studies “clean,” researchers removed factors like thyroid disorders, PCOS, hysterectomy, autoimmune conditions, migraines, metabolic changes, sleep disturbances, stress patterns, and more — labeling them confounders instead of clues.

The result is a scientific canon, and an entire generation of health apps, built on simplified models of women who don’t actually exist.

It shows up in the data:

Less than 1% of preclinical biology research includes menopause or female-specific traits - leaving midlife physiology widely understudied and poorly understood.

Pause Whisperer takes the opposite approach.

We welcome the complexity that science excluded.

Because those so-called “confounders” aren’t noise - they are your health story.

They’re the patterns that shape how you sleep, think, feel, and function in midlife.

Modern AI finally allows us to learn from this full spectrum of experience.