Roshini Sanah Jaiswal, the founder of JusthumanMenopause conversations in India have largely stayed confined to online searches, but Roshini Sanah Jaiswal, founder of Justhuman, wants to change the narrative with a new podcast built on truths rather than simple awareness.
“India doesn’t need more menopause awareness, it needs a menopause revolution,” she says, pointing out that the country hasn’t even run a proper awareness campaign yet, let alone moved past it.The idea took almost two years to build, but the spark was personal.
Jaiswal went through menopause at forty-three and despite access to the best doctors, it was dismissed with it’s “just stress, just age” comments.
That gap between lived experience and language is what led her to build a podcast featuring gynaecologists, neuroscientists, politicians, and aestheticians alike, because as she puts it, “menopause isn’t a hormone problem; it’s a systems problem”.
Jaiswal isn’t interested in permission to speak anymore.
Roshini Sanah Jaiswal, the founder of Justhuman
Menopause conversations in India have largely stayed confined to online searches, but Roshini Sanah Jaiswal, founder of Justhuman, wants to change the narrative with a new podcast built on truths rather than simple awareness. “India doesn’t need more menopause awareness, it needs a menopause revolution,” she says, pointing out that the country hasn’t even run a proper awareness campaign yet, let alone moved past it.The idea took almost two years to build, but the spark was personal. Jaiswal went through menopause at forty-three and despite access to the best doctors, it was dismissed with it’s “just stress, just age” comments. That gap between lived experience and language is what led her to build a podcast featuring gynaecologists, neuroscientists, politicians, and aestheticians alike, because as she puts it, “menopause isn’t a hormone problem; it’s a systems problem”. The numbers back her urgency. Indian women hit menopause at 46, nearly five years earlier than the global average. Jaiswal isn’t interested in permission to speak anymore. She’s pushing for policy, medical training, and accessible Hormone Replacement Therapy. “Silence is the first thing we’re breaking. Policy is what we’re breaking it for,” she concludes.
