Meet Paris & Jodie Welton
The sisterhood behind Adaptogenic Apothecary.
The pair discovered adaptogens when their bodies and rhythms started to change post 40. Perimenopause gifted Paris with insomnia, brain fog and intermittent achy joints that prompted her to go down an online rabbit hole of Googling arthritis and sleep supplements at 3am.
Jodie experienced an irrational annoyance of everyone and everything during the days leading up to her period, never before afflicted by PMS, the strength and voracity came as an unwelcome surprise.
Meet Paris & Jodie Welton
After shying away from modern pharmaceutical options, they began researching traditional plant based medicine and stumbled across Ashwagandha, a powerful adaptogenic herb. After using this successfully, they soon discovered that they didn’t need it every day but did spot a pattern connected to their menstrual cycle; by listening to the body it became obvious that they needed something else to support the different phases of the monthly cycle and embarked upon a journey to learn which plant based food supplements could help them with the ebbs and flows of each phase.
What followed was a lot of herb and supplement buying, experimentation and frustration as their daily supplement routine became so intense, it could have had its own job title!
Surely there was an easier way than this? The pair spent the next two years working with a leading medicinal herbalist specialising in women’s hormonal health and so the idea for Harmony was born; the world’s first menstrual cycle support to specifically target each of the 4 phases. The carefully crafted, potent adaptogenic elixirs, include Affron® and medicinal mushrooms to support the body at just the right time. Jodie and Paris began cycle synching and taking the right blends at the right time of the month and the results were outstanding.
Jodie’s irritability and dark moods turned into love and light, elevated by the daily Affron® dose and hormonally supported by the adaptogenic herbs and mushrooms, her dreaded PMT became PML. Paris no longer felt exhausted, sleeping all night and energised in the day, she took up her life-long love of horse riding again and that niggling joint pain is no-where to be seen.
Meet Sara, our Medical Herbalist and the expert behind our supplements.
With a background in hormonal health and medical herbalism, Sara’s journey began in the Amazon working with a shaman and indigenous plants.
Her award-winning research, functional medicine approach, and deep respect for natural health guide every Adaptogenic Apothecary formula.
