I'm Marie, co-founder of Bauchgefühl. I run the product, the content and the kitchen. The kitchen usually in the literal sense.
What I'm not: a doctor, a registered dietitian, a nutrition scientist. I don't have a diploma to wave around here. What I do have is a body that spent years very clearly telling me my eating in the second half of my cycle needed to look different from the first. PMS, cravings, a slump that feels like a wall. You probably know the one.
At some point I started reading. PubMed, Cleveland Clinic, Harvard Health, the NHS pages, the BfR, books by Alisa Vitti and Lisa Hendrickson-Jack. Not because I wanted to become an influencer, but because I wanted to understand why flaxseed in the follicular phase actually does something and why I get through a luteal-phase Wednesday better on complex carbs than on a salad. Then I started cooking from it. A lot. Plenty of it wasn't great. A few things were, and over time those became the spine of what's in the app now.
When I write an article here, the line is clear: what the studies say, what I've tried myself, and where one stops and the other begins. Josef peer reads before anything goes live. No promises that a smoothie will fix your hormones. No advice meant to replace a doctor. Just honest work with what we've read, cooked and tested.