IDEAL PROTEIN · PERIMENOPAUSE & MENOPAUSE
Navigating perimenopause or menopause? You don’t have to figure it all out on your own.
If your usual approach no longer feels right, we’re here to listen and help you find a way forward. Together with an Ideal Protein coach, you can build a plan around your needs, your goals, and where you are today.
Take the first step toward feeling supported and confident in this next chapter.
Partner clinics across North America
Helping people lose weight with a real coach
Coaching wherever you are
WHAT’S CHANGING
Same number on the scale for both
Before perimenopause
Muscle
Other
Fat
After menopause
Muscle
Other
Fat
“Other” is bone, water and organs. Illustration only, not measured data.
Your weight can hold steady while your body changes underneath it.
More of it settles around your middle, and that matters for your heart health.
Losing weight at this stage can cost muscle unless someone is paying attention to it.
Research increasingly points to peri- through post-menopause as an important window for body composition and heart health, with shifts in visceral fat, lean mass and insulin sensitivity sometimes happening even when the scale barely moves.
Hot flashes, broken sleep, mood swings, brain fog: they’re real, and they deserve a clinician who specializes in menopause. That’s not us, and we won’t pretend otherwise.
Our job is the metabolic side: how you eat, what’s happening to your body composition, and holding on to your muscle. You deserve care for both.
HOW IDEAL PROTEIN HELPS
Hormone therapy isn’t a weight-management treatment, and we aren’t a replacement for your doctor. Whatever you decide together, your coach works alongside it.
A structured plan built around protein
Clear, simple and set up for you, so you’re not guessing.
A coach who knows your name
Regular check-ins with a real person, in clinic or virtually where your clinic offers it.
Progress beyond the scale
Weight, waist and hip measurements, body composition where offered, and how you’re feeling.
On a GLP-1, or coming off one?
Your coach supports you alongside your medication and after it. Medication questions stay with your prescriber. GLP-1 access through Ideal Protein is coming soon.
HOW IT WORKS
1
Tell us where you are
Answer a few quick questions about your cycle, your goals and any medications you take. It takes about two minutes.
2
Meet your coach
A coach from a clinic near you, or one who works virtually, reaches out within 48 hours for a no-pressure conversation.
3
Start your plan
A structured, protein-first plan built for this stage, with regular check-ins and progress tracked beyond the scale, including your strength.
FREE DOWNLOAD
FREE LIVE EXPERT PANEL
An open conversation about what changes through menopause and how women can be better supported through it. Hormones are one piece of a much bigger picture: nutrition, protein intake, resistance training and metabolic health belong in the conversation too.
Live on Facebook
4:30 PM PT / 7:30 PM ET · Free · Watch from home or at a participating clinic
MEET THE PANEL
Dolores Zumbado, DC
Moderator · Understanding the Transition
Krista Hansen
Certified Menopause Coach
Dr. Douglas Rothrock
Chief Medical Advisor, Ideal Protein · Heart & Metabolic Health
Dr. Jennifer Cardinal
Member of The Menopause Society · Hormones & Nutrition
Angela Crawford
Ideal Protein Clinic Owner & Coach
Healthcare provider? Your patients are already asking about menopause and weight.
TALK TO A COACH
We’ll connect you with an Ideal Protein coach near you, or one who works virtually, for a no-pressure conversation about what you’re experiencing.
✓ No blood test needed. We start with what you tell us.
✓ Been with Ideal Protein before? Your coach starts from what worked for you.
✓ We never sell your information.
What happens after I submit?
How much does it cost?
Do I need to be on hormone therapy, or stop it?
Can I do this while taking a GLP-1?
What if I’ve had a difficult relationship with food?
Ideal Protein coaches are not medical providers and do not diagnose, treat or advise on medication. Talk with your healthcare provider before starting any new eating plan, and about any symptoms or medications. Ideal Protein is not affiliated with The Menopause Society.