BELLA✦ ✦ ✦PAUSE
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Perimenopause and menopause supplements promise everything.

BellaPause bridges the gap between their promises and your results.

Check the evidence. Track your results.

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Why BellaPause exists

Doctors dismiss symptoms and misinformation is everywhere. Women shouldn't have to guess.

BellaPause is an app that scans your supplements, shows you the real evidence behind each ingredient, finds cheaper alternatives, and helps you track what's actually working for your symptoms. We won't sell you products and we won't sell your data.

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1 in 3
women say a healthcare provider has minimised or dismissed their symptoms or pain.1
Over 75%
of the most visible social media sources on menopause hormone therapy had a commercial conflict of interest.2
Only 31.3%
of OB/GYN residency programmes reported having a menopause curriculum.3

Our story

From Luxembourg, with love.

Hayley hosts and produces the hit parenting podcast “Mom Life in Luxembourg” on RTL Today. When she interviewed Dr Susanne Folschette, founder of the Luxembourg Menopause Society, the episode made a huge splash with women in the community — and opened Hayley’s eyes to how underfunded and under-researched women’s health has always been.

Add her own experience of being dismissed and experimenting with vitamins, and she knew there had to be a better way. That’s how BellaPause was born.

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BellaPause addresses a genuine, unmet need — empowering women to make decisions based on facts.

Dr Susanne Folschette, MD Founder, Luxembourg Menopause Society

The founders

Built by women who needed it.

Hayley Allam, co-founder of BellaPause, smiling in a field of wildflowers.

Hayley Allam

Co-Founder & CEO · Mother of 3

“My symptoms include fun ones like waking up in the middle of the night for no reason, hair thinning and bone loss. After being dismissed by my doctor, I spent hundreds on supplements and vitamins — with no way to know if they really work. Women deserve better. That’s why I created BellaPause. For every woman that’s awake between 2–4 AM trying to figure out how to feel like herself again.”

Sue Samsonov, co-founder of BellaPause, smiling in a garden.

Sue Samsonov

Co-Founder & Head of Product · Mother of 2

“I spent 20 years in healthcare marketing and ran my own supplement company — and I still couldn’t always tell which ingredients actually worked. So I taught myself to code and built the tool I wish I’d had. I wish I had this 8 years ago.”

Finalist for Fit4Start pitching sessions — Luxembourg’s national startup accelerator

Frequently asked questions

An app that scans your supplements, shows you the real evidence behind each ingredient, finds cheaper alternatives, and helps you track what's actually working for your symptoms.

No — BellaPause is educational, not medical. It doesn't diagnose or treat anything; it helps you understand what you're taking and track your own patterns, so you're better informed for conversations with your own doctor.

Nothing yet — the app isn't live. Once it is, all you'll need is a supplement to scan.

Your health data is used to give you personalised insights into your own symptoms. With your permission, it can also be combined anonymously with other women's data to help reveal patterns for the wider medical understanding of this life stage — but that's entirely optional, and you can change your mind any time. There's nothing to sell to anyone.

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References

  1. Gallup–Pivotal Women’s Health Survey, 2026. Reported in Contemporary OB/GYN: “Survey: 51% of US women report negative healthcare experiences”.
  2. “Does online information about hormone replacement therapy (or menopause hormone therapy) reflect indications from the British National Formulary and guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: a cross-sectional study of UK media.” BMJ Open, 2025. doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-094773
  3. Allen et al. “Needs assessment of menopause education in United States obstetrics and gynecology residency training programs.” Menopause, 2023;30(10):1002–1005. doi.org/10.1097/GME.0000000000002234