What is Mastering Menopause?

Mastering Menopause is more than a diet program; it’s a lifestyle transformation. It’s tailored for menopause aged women who want to regain control over their hormones, especially when conventional diet and exercise advice don't work. With Mastering Menopause, you learn how to individualize your lifestyle to mimic the hormones you’ve lost, balance the ones you have left, and create a sustainable approach to living healthy and feeling great.

30 Years In The Making

That's right. I started doing this work when I was fifteen years old. That's the first time I ever collected money to help someone lose weight and get in shape— a mother of one of the players on my JV football team. 

I have been working with women as a trainer, nutritionist, life coach and doctor ever since.

I can't say it was easy, in fact as you could imagine I started off as a pretty ignorant and arrogant young health professional. Like everyone else in the industry at the time I just assumed men and women were the same. I thought it was all about cutting calories and doing hardcore workouts.

It was the women I worked with who taught me different and forced me to dig deep into the research literature to understand how and why female hormones made women different. What I learned changed everything and it allowed me to see and know first hand that men and women are indeed different. No duh, right?

The fact is, women know from the time they start menstruating that hormones matter. Men don't figure that out until well into old age.

It may shock you to know that it was not until the early 2000's that regulating bodies in medicine realized women were drastically under represented in research. And while that has changed moderately, today, most health advice for women is still dominated by information gleaned from studies on young male college kids. 

So I learned the major intricacies about how and why estrogen and progesterone make such a difference to women. 

But I still had one major lesson to learn and that one came from my favorite woman on the planet— my mother, Joyce.

My Mother Taught Me More Than Medical School

Let me share the story of a special woman, my mother, Joyce. She's the heart and soul behind Mastering Menopause.

As my mother entered menopause, I witnessed her struggles and frustration firsthand. She tried everything she knew, yet nothing seemed to work. Her body was changing in ways she couldn’t understand or control. Diets that used to work seemed ineffective. She started gaining weight, particularly around her belly, and the hot flashes, sleepless nights, and mood swings were taking a toll on her life.

As a doctor dedicated to women’s health, I couldn’t stand idly by. I had to help her, not just as a physician, but as a son who couldn't bear seeing his mother suffer. So I confidently put her on the same program I had been using on other menopausal women. And guess what happened? Well, nothing. She continued to gain weight and suffer. In fact, it seemed I was making things worse. I was confused and frustrated and did not understand what was going on. 

Then one day I spent the day with her and my father. I watched her eat. She was doing what I told her— fruits, vegetables, good fat and low starch. But she told me she was hungry all the time despite the fact she was eating a ton of food. She also confessed the workouts we were doing together (I was training her five days each week), were exhausting her. And then it hit me. This was a similar pattern I was seeing in other patients who did not respond well. Maybe it was stress? Maybe she needed a different approach?

I took this realization and did something that was counterintuitive at the time; I told her to walk more and workout less. I also added carbs back into her diet with extra protein. Almost overnight things started to change. My mother's metabolic formula was different.

This was the beginning of one of the most important lessons of my career, not only are women different than men and younger women distinct from more mature woman, but every woman varies metabolically from every other women. The thing we were all doing wrong in medicine and fitness was treating everyone the same. Just breaking people up into similar groups still was not varied and granular enough.

Through research, experimentation, and determination, I discovered that menopause is not just about calories, but about hormones. My mother helped me solidify the fact that every single woman going through menopause was as unique as a fingerprint. They varied in four specific ways— their physiology, psychology, personal preferences, and practical circumstances. Any approach that did not account for this was eventually doomed to fail.

This personal journey with my mother led to the evolution of my work that includes countless books, the mega best-selling program, Metabolic Renewal, thousands of women helped, and this latest creation, the Mastering Menopause Course. This current work is a program that goes beyond the one-size-fits-all advice and delves into the hormonal changes unique to each woman. It empowers women to take back control of their bodies and find balance in their lives during and after menopause.

Now, I want to share this life-changing knowledge with you and every woman who needs it in the simplest way possible.

Top Benefits of Mastering Menopause

• Weight Loss & Belly Fat Burn: Mastering Menopause is centered around hormonal changes, not just calories, to help you lose weight and burn belly fat effectively.
• Control Hunger & Cravings: Understand how your hormones affect your appetite and cravings, and learn strategies to manage them.
• Better Sleep & Reduced Risk of Diseases: Get better sleep, reduce hot flashes, and lower your risk of hormone-related diseases.
• Understand Hormone Replacement: All the information you need on the types and effectiveness of HRT.
• And More.....