Menopause Types for Personalized Menopause Care

Every woman’s journey through peri-menopause and post-menopause is as unique as her fingerprint, influenced by a myriad of factors including genetics, lifestyle, and health history. Despite these individual differences, certain patterns emerge, allowing us to categorize experiences into seven distinct menopause types. Understanding your specific type can be a game-changer, offering a tailored roadmap for personalized menopause care and lasting health.

By identifying your primary type, or a blend of a few, you can create a personalized menopause care plan to reset your hormones and optimize your well-being. While all types will follow the same foundational six steps, each will have a customized approach to diet, supplements, exercise, and bio-identical hormones, ensuring that your unique needs are met.

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Physical:

● Heavier periods / more painful periods

● More frequent periods ** often clients will have IUD/BCP

● Difficulty falling asleep

● Night sweats

● Weight gain

● Headache

● Breast tenderness

● Lower libido

Emotional:

● Higher irritability

 ● Increased anxiety

Chances are you feel tired, are bloated, have gained weight, and cannot lose it easily.

Personalized Menopause Care Plan:

• Need to focus on lowering estrogen compared to progesterone, by either reducing estrogen and/or increasing progesterone.
• Focus on mindset to help balance mood. 
• Reduce exposure to toxins. 

 Physical:

● Weight gain / or initially weight loss

● Weight gain around the abdominal region

● Fatigue, especially mid afternoon

● Hunger

● Difficulty staying asleep/falling asleep

Emotional:

● Heightened state of anxiety/worry/irritability (hyperarousal)

• Or decreased state indicating crash/fatigue (hypoarousal)

● Mental fogginess

● Low motivation

Chances are you feel tired (especially in the afternoon), experience intense cravings, and have difficulty maintaining muscle mass. 

Personalized Menopause Care Plan

• Need to support the balance between stress hormone pathways and sex hormone pathways by reducing stimulation of the adrenals, and inflammation.
• Focus on supporting sleep patterns, methods of relaxation and management of stress.

Physical:

● Weight gain

● Fatigue

● Less energy through workouts

● Headaches

Emotional:

● Fatigue

● Headaches

● Allergies

● Sensitivity to caffeine/ alcohol/ medication

● All sorts of symptoms here

● Generally can be confusing as symptoms can show up from multiple

hormone systems being out of balance

Chances are you are noticing more weight gain or less weight loss than expected,  fatigue throughout the day, but especially after workouts, general weakness, and multiple hormone imbalances.

Personalized Menopause Care Plan:

• Need to support Phase 1 and Phase 2 liver detoxification with diet supplements, and ensure that digestion and elimination are optimized so toxins and hormones can be released.
• Focus on eliminating exposure to toxins and reducing overall toxic burden.

 Physical:

● Chronic fatigue

● Fibromyalgia

● Headaches

● Migraines

● Muscle Weakness

Emotional:

● Depression

● Mental fogginess

Chances are you are tired all the time, and hurt everywhere. You have trouble working out because you do not feel strong, you tire easily, and often feel worse afterwards.

Personalized Menopause Care Plan:

• Need to support the functioning of the mitochondria in ovaries, adrenals, brain, muscles and liver.
• Focus on eliminating exposure to toxins and reducing overall toxic burden.

Physical:

● Weight gain

● Fatigue- especially mid afternoon

● Hunger cravings

● Feeling cold

● Infertility

Emotional:

● Depressed mood

● Lack of motivation

● Sluggishness

Chances are you feel tired and sluggish a lot of the time, have gained weight, experience muscle weakness, and do not enjoy working out.

Personalized Menopause Care Plan:

• Need to support the thyroid and conversion from inactive to active thyroid hormone, reduce inflammation, balance the stress response, and support the liver .
• Focus on new healthy habit formation that supports management of stress, as well as healthy eating, sleeping, and movement. 

This type may have very mild overall symptoms or no symptoms at all.

Oh, to be a unicorn!

Personalized Menopause Care Plan:

• Need to look at how just mild symptoms even can influence the future risk of chronic disease due to the drop in hormones, and initiate preventative care for bone health, cardiovascular health and brain health.
• Focus on optimal nutrition and fitness to keep hormones as optimized as possible and prevent future disease.

Physical:

● Difficulty falling and/or staying asleep

● Weight gain

● Vaginal atrophy

● Painful sex

● Joint pain

● Muscle weakness

● Difficulty building muscle

● Pelvic Ffoor dysfunction

● Increased urgency, frequency, incontinence

● Increased bladder and yeast infections

● Possible hot flashes and night sweats

● Increased risk of bone and muscle loss

Emotional:

● Depression

 ● Increased anxiety

Chances are you have a depressed mood, experience vaginal dryness and irritation, and have increased joint pain and muscle weakness.

Personalized Menopause Care Plan:

• Need to focus on increasing estrogen, progesterone and testosterone through diet, supplements, exercise, and most likely, bio-identical hormones.
• Focus on improving mood and energy level by managing stress, developing a positive mindset, strengthening human connections and developing a strong sense of purpose.

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