Jennifer Mest
Master of Science in Human Nutrition
CNS Candidate · CYT-500
When Hormones Shift, Metabolism Follows.
A physiology-based approach to navigating hormonal transition and stabilizing sleep, appetite, mood, and strength.
If you’re noticing changes like this…
You’re hungrier at night than you used to be
Sleep feels lighter or more fragmented
Your body composition is shifting despite consistent effort
Alcohol affects you differently
Your mood feels less steady
Hormonal shifts in midlife change how your brain regulates appetite, how your body responds to stress, and how you recover from training and alcohol.
When you understand the adaptation, you can respond intentionally instead of reactively.
My Approach
Care grounded in clinical nutrition and thoughtful lifestyle integration.
Most “hormone balancing” messaging oversimplifies complex endocrine shifts. Midlife physiology is not solved with a single supplement, detox, or rigid protocol. It requires understanding how nutrition, strength, sleep, stress load, and nervous system regulation interact over time.
Perimenopause is not a hormone imbalance to fix.
It is a neurological and metabolic transition to navigate.
The goal is not intensity. It is steadiness.
This work prioritizes clarity over overwhelm. Rather than chasing quick fixes, we focus on identifying patterns and supporting how your physiology is adapting.
Metabolic stability is supported through:
Targeted nutrient strategy to stabilize appetite and energy
Strength-forward training to preserve muscle and metabolic resilience
Sleep rhythm alignment to support hormonal regulation
Nervous system awareness and stress load management
Assessment of alcohol patterns and their impact on sleep, stress regulation, and metabolic stability when relevant.
Supplements can be supportive. But they cannot compensate for chronic underfueling, fragmented sleep, or unaddressed stress load.
I am navigating this transition myself, which deepens my commitment to physiology-informed care that feels steady rather than reactive.
What This Is Not
This is not symptom chasing.
It is not a rotating supplement protocol.
It is not a single-lever solution.
Perimenopause is a systemic neurological and metabolic transition. Supporting it requires understanding how your body is adapting — not overriding one symptom at a time.
Ways to Begin
Care is delivered through a phased, process-based model rather than single-session problem solving. This reflects how bodies actually change and how clarity develops over time.
All care begins with an Initial Clinical Session.
Individual Metabolic Stability Support
A structured, physiology-informed process designed to help you build metabolic stability as hormones shift — across sleep, appetite, mood, strength, and body composition.
Care is delivered in defined phases, allowing time for metabolic regulation, strength integration, and meaningful change.
All care begins with an Initial Clinical Session.
Metabolic Stability & Alcohol Recalibration
For women who notice that nightly drinking has become part of their stress and sleep cycle — and want to recalibrate without shame, extremes, or identity labels.
Alcohol is not a moral issue.
It is often a metabolic feedback loop — tied to stress regulation, sleep disruption, appetite signaling, and hormonal transition.
This work integrates metabolic stabilization with structured alcohol recalibration for women who want clarity and steadiness.
Care begins with an Initial Clinical Session.
Weekly Insights on Midlife Metabolism
Ongoing reflections on what midlife metabolic stability actually looks like in real life.
Midlife Metabolic Stability Intensive
Coming Soon
A small-group, 4-week experience focused on stabilizing metabolism through nutrients, strength, sleep, and nervous system support.
Join the interest list to be notified when enrollment opens.
Strong. Steady. Satiated.
Begin with a comprehensive clinical session to understand how your metabolism is adapting.