Premature perimenopause symptoms? Don’t just blame your age, your genetics, or your hormones. 

There’s one major, often overlooked driver behind premature perimenopause symptoms. It’s not just your age, your genetics, or your hormones. It’s stress.

Chronic, unchecked stress floods the body with cortisol, disrupts your HPA axis, robs you of deep sleep, and drains you of essential minerals like magnesium and glycine. Two of the key building blocks - your nervous system and hormones - need to stay balanced. And when those systems are depleted, it can accelerate aging, impair ovulation, and bring on perimenopause earlier than it should - sometimes by years.

The good news is, you can slow this down. You can delay it. And it starts with doing everything in your power to calm your nervous system. 

Seven Steps that we’ve found to be really effective:

1. Begin with sleep. It’s non-negotiable

Quality sleep is the ultimate hormone regulator. It’s when your brain detoxes, your hormones reset, and your body begins to repair. You need deep, uninterrupted rest to keep your cycles regular and your adrenals resilient.

Things that help:

• Oura Ring to monitor sleep cycles, HRV, and nervous system load

• holi (mag) for six bioavailable forms of magnesium

• calm beauty to support skin and mood with glycine and pearl powder

• holi (mane) for deep sleep, stronger hair, and glycine-rich cellular nourishment

2. Get light, early

Expose your eyes to natural sunlight within 30 minutes of waking. Aim for around 7:00 AM. Morning light calibrates your circadian rhythm, stimulates dopamine and serotonin, and helps you fall asleep more easily at night. Midday light doesn’t have the same regulatory effect on your internal clock.

The sun is your nervous system’s greatest ally.

3. Absorb your vitamin D, properly

Vitamin D is critical for hormone balance, immune health, and mood. But in order to actually absorb and utilize it, your body needs magnesium and vitamin K2. Without those cofactors, vitamin D can remain inactive or even create inflammation.

Pairing D with holi (mag) ensures better absorption and activation, while supporting mood and stress resilience.

4. Ground your nervous system daily

Take your shoes off. Get barefoot in the grass, on the sand, or on the earth. Let the planet’s natural electromagnetic field sync with your own.

Listen to calming frequencies that regulate the body and brain. Start with our holi (mag) playlist and calm (beauty) playlist. Put them on in the background as you cook, stretch, bathe, or breathe.

Practice breathwork. Try box breathing or 4-7-8. Long, slow breaths in. Even longer exhales. Let your belly rise and fall.

Hug a tree. Literally. Nature calms the limbic system. Forests lower cortisol. Being near trees lowers blood pressure.

Sit by the ocean. Let the rhythm of the waves teach your body how to soften. Even recorded wave sounds can ease your nervous system into a parasympathetic state.

Get quiet. Get still. Get outside.

5. Eat like you live in the South of France

Warm food. Real food. Local food. Simple, nourishing, mineral-rich meals that support your hormones instead of hijacking them. Prioritize grass-fed meats, seafood, healthy fats, seasonal produce, and unprocessed salt.

Life in coastal Europe moves differently. People walk more. They eat slower. They don’t multitask at meals. They take time off. They take their time, period. There’s no rush. And you can feel their nervous systems breathe differently.

Take the vacation. Book the flight. Romanticize your meals. Say no to what drains you. Say yes to what feeds you.

6. Supplement smartly to protect your reserves

In addition to holi (mag), holi (mane), and calm (beauty), consider adding:

• Astragalus, a gentle adaptogen that supports telomeres and long-term energy

• Pinealon peptide, a neuroprotective compound that supports brain health and may help buffer against premature aging, and helps you sleep better  

Your body needs nutritional and energetic reserves to stay vibrant. These tools help you build and protect them.

7. Calm your cortisol with faith

Living in a state of fear, control or overthinking floods the body with stress chemistry. The nervous system doesn’t know the difference between imagined threat and real danger.

When you live with faith, with trust, with surrender, your body softens. Your breath deepens. Your hormones respond. Your stress hormones recede.

You were made to experience beauty, create, connect, feel, trust and rest.

Our final word

It’s okay to slow down. Feel the warmth of the sun on your skin. Let the earth ground you. Listen to the waves. Breathe like you mean it. Do everything humanly possible to calm your nervous system.

Whatever you’re going through, don’t rush it. Don’t rush your healing. Don’t rush your hormones. Don’t rush your life.