Your body started pushing back.

The weight settled somewhere it never used to. Sleep went sideways. You lose the word you were halfway through saying. And every plan you have ever been handed was built for a body you don't have anymore.

Nobody ever gave you the map. So I spent 30+ years in research and built you one.

Take the free quiz. Find your starting point.

Free. Under two minutes. You get a starting point that fits what your body is actually doing.

Dr. Kay Kubatko, The Menopause Professor

Dr. Karrie Ann (Kay) Kubatko · PhD, University of Notre Dame · advanced training at Stanford, Oxford and Yale · 30+ years in research · founder of MenoQ

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Most women land here with the same question. Where do I even begin?

You have read the articles. You have been told to eat less and move more, and you did, and your jeans still cut into your belly. Somewhere along the way you decided the problem was you.

It wasn't. The plan was aimed at the wrong thing. That is a fixable problem, and finding out where to start takes about two minutes.

The quiz asks you about what you are actually living with. Then it hands you back a starting point, in plain language, with the first thing to do about it.

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What's coming next

Live workshops and where to find me

Every workshop is 90 minutes with the research, in plain English, with something you can do that night. Replays go out to everyone who registers.

Wed 24 Sept
7:00 pm CST

Workshop: The 3 AM Fix

That 3 AM wake up is not only costing you sleep. It is one of the reasons the belly will not budge no matter what you do at dinner. So we fix the night. Then we watch what happens to the middle.

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Wed 8 Oct
7:00 pm CST

Workshop: The Truth About HRT

90 minutes with the research so nobody can hand you a decision you don't understand. What the studies actually say about saying yes, about saying no, and about what to do when it stopped being enough.

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Thu 19 Nov
7:00 pm CST

Workshop: The Holiday Big Three

Stress, family, and a table covered in the food you actually love. Those are the three things that take women out every December, and white knuckling your way past the dessert is not a plan. We build you one. You get to eat the food, sit through the family, and keep your symptoms from running the whole season.

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Every Monday
1:00 pm CST

THRIVE: Hormone Harmony, live

Members meet with me every week. You stop fixing one thing only to have another one pop up, because you finally understand how the pieces move together.

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Workshop replay: Your GLP-1 Fat Burner

How specific foods support your body's own satiety signal, which is the same one behind the medications everybody is talking about. No prescription in sight.

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Notes from the lab, every week

New menopause research comes out constantly and almost none of it reaches you in a form you can use. That is what the newsletter is for. I read the studies, I tell you what actually changed, and I tell you what to do with it on a Tuesday.

No supplements to buy. No fear lists. Just the science, written for a smart woman who is tired of being talked down to.

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About Dr. Kay

I gained 38 pounds and my own doctor told me everything looked fine.

My teeth changed. My gums changed. My hair, my vision, my eyes, my skin. There were wrinkles on the backs of my hands that were not there the year before. I was itchy in places I did not know could be itchy. And I was so tired that I would put the keys in the fridge and stand there wondering what I came in for.

That was perimenopause. Nobody told me. So I did the only thing I know how to do.

I went into the research.

Dr. Kay Kubatko

My name is Karrie Ann Kubatko. Everybody calls me Kay, and has since I was a kid, so that is what you will see on everything I make. Same person.

I have a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and advanced training from Stanford, Oxford and Yale. For 30+ years I did research for a living. Federal projects, government consulting, corporate partnerships. My whole job was reading the actual studies and telling people what they really said.

So I turned that on menopause. Thousands of papers. And what I found was that the good science exists, it just never gets translated into anything a woman can use on a Tuesday night when she cannot sleep.

I built a system out of it. I used it on myself first. Then on my clients. Now on thousands of women who were told everything looked fine.

I am not here to help you weigh less. I want you to have more. More muscle, more strength, more sleep, more brain, more of the woman you actually are.

Gain. Win. Thrive.

Work with me 1:1

From women in it

They came in tired of being told everything looked fine.

Jane

“HRT helped but it wasn't enough. This workshop connected all the dots no one else had.”

Jane, 52
Sarah

“I thought I was losing my mind. Turns out I just needed to learn how to eat for this season of life. Now I feel like me again.”

Sarah, 66
Five stars
“I slept 8 hours straight for the first time in 3 years. Week 6.”
Roslyn
RoslynAge 56
Five stars
“My jeans fit again. My brain works again. I'm me again.”
Claire
ClaireAge 49
Five stars
“I stopped hiding my body and started understanding it.”
Nicole
NicoleAge 62

No two women break the same way. No two women heal the same way either.

Which is exactly why there is no one plan on this page. There is a starting point, and it is different for every woman who takes the quiz.

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Before you spend a dollar

This is not for everybody, and I would rather say so now.

This is not for you if you want a fast fix you can do for three weeks and quit. It is not for you if you are looking for a supplement stack, because I do not sell supplements and I will not recommend them. And it is not for you if you want somebody to hand you a number on a scale as the whole point.

None of this is medical advice and none of it replaces your own provider. I am a researcher, not your doctor, and I will tell you plainly when something is a conversation to have with your trusted provider.

If you buy something of mine and it is not right for you, tell my team and we make it right. You should not have to gamble to find out whether somebody can help you.

You have been doing this alone for long enough.

Your body is not going to sort this out on its own, and waiting another year only makes the muscle and the bone harder to get back. Two minutes is a very small thing to trade for knowing where to start.

Take the free quiz

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