The Perimenopause Protocol | Protein, Muscle and Bone
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Your weight has not changed. Your body has.
Lean mass falls by roughly 0.6 kg a year through the menopause transition, and the fat replacing it goes to the visceral compartment. Weight itself carries on in a straight line, which is why nobody investigated.
Fifty pages, twelve chapters, around 18,000 words. Summary box at the top of every chapter, full biochemistry underneath. Plus a calculator, printable trackers and the blood panel nobody offers you.
- Your maintenance number, worked out from your own lean mass
- Protein, fat and carbohydrate targets, split into four daily blocks
- Why eating less is the wrong lever, and what it did to your thyroid
- Ray Peat’s work on progesterone, with his dosing
- Peri and post. Instant download, works on any phone
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Your weight has not changed. Your body has.
The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation followed 1,246 women with DXA scans for eighteen years. About two years before the final period, the rate of fat gain doubled and lean mass began to fall.
Body weight carried on in a straight line. No acceleration, nothing unusual, nothing to investigate.
So through the four or five years in which your body composition changed most, the number you were using to monitor yourself showed you nothing. Fat arriving and muscle leaving cancel each other out on a scale.
Lean mass falls by roughly 0.6 kg a year through the transition. The fat that replaces it goes to the visceral compartment, around your organs, and the shift is most pronounced in women who were already slim.
Why the advice you were given is making it worse
Eat less, do more cardio. That advice was written for a body with oestrogen in it.
A large deficit in a woman already losing lean mass accelerates the loss, because the amino acids have to come from somewhere. Chronic cardio raises cortisol, and you have just lost progesterone, which was your main brake on it. Low energy availability suppresses the conversion of T4 into active T3, which is already under pressure.
You end up smaller, weaker, colder, more tired, with a lower metabolic rate and worse bone density than when you started. Then you are told to eat less again.
Almost every woman I meet in this window is eating too little, and has been for years.
What this actually is
Fifty pages. Twelve chapters. Around 18,000 words, and none of it padding.
Every chapter opens with a summary box, which is the direct hits and nothing else. Then the full picture underneath: the mechanism, the pathways, the biochemistry. Read the boxes if you want the protocol. Read the rest if you are the kind of person who does not follow instructions she cannot see the logic of.
- What is actually changing. Progesterone falls first. FSH rises before oestrogen drops. Why your blood test came back normal.
- Where the fat goes. The SWAN data in full, visceral redistribution, and why slim women see it most.
- Your maintenance number. Why eating less is the wrong lever, and what adaptive thermogenesis actually did to you.
- Protein. Two grams per kilogram, why the requirement goes up rather than down, and how the muscle-building switch physically works.
- Fat. One to 1.4 g per kilogram. Every steroid hormone you make is built from cholesterol.
- Carbohydrate. Why the floor is 120 g, what low carbohydrate does to thyroid conversion, and why your TSH looks fine anyway.
- The four blocks. How to structure the day, and why the evening carries the carbohydrate.
- Loading, joints and bone. How bone decides to get stronger, and why I will not give you a programme in a PDF.
- Progesterone. Ray Peat’s work as the foundation, his dosing, and the conversion detail that catches people out.
- Sleep. Why it broke, what the 3am wake actually is, and the fix that contradicts standard advice.
- Supplements. Named, dosed, phased over three months, and split by what needs screening first.
- The tracker. How to find your own pattern, and how to read your own data without fooling yourself.
And the toolkit
| The calculator | Your maintenance energy from your own lean mass and movement, then split into four blocks with cooked-weight portions. Works out your body fat from a tape measure if you do not know it. |
| The daily tracker | Sleep, energy, mood, flushes and cycle day. Once there is enough data it tells you where in your cycle your worst week falls. |
| Monthly and function tests | Waist rather than weight, plus chair rise, balance and carry hold every eight weeks. |
| The lookup tables | Resting rate by weight and body fat, daily targets, cooked-weight portions, and the progesterone conversion table. |
| The blood panel | What to ask for and why, including free T3, reverse T3 and thyroid antibodies, and the cycle timing that makes hormone results interpretable. |
Every number the calculator produces is also printed as a lookup table, so the protocol works in full on paper.
Who wrote this
I’m Eloy Rodriguez. I run Carbon IV, a performance nutrition and strength coaching practice in Dubai.
I wrote this because the women arriving in front of me had all been through the same sequence. Symptoms nobody joined up. A blood test that came back normal. Advice to eat less and walk more. Years of doing that, and a body that kept getting weaker while the scale barely moved.
Nobody had explained the mechanism to them. So this guide does, at length, because I think you are capable of understanding your own physiology and I think being told what to do without being told why is how women end up here in the first place.
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Questions
Does this cover HRT?
No, deliberately. Hormone therapy is a prescribing decision between you and your doctor, and it is not mine to argue with in either direction. This guide covers food, loading and tracking, which works alongside whatever you and your doctor decide.
Is it only for perimenopause?
It covers both peri and post. The protocol is largely the same. Where something applies to one and not the other, such as Chasteberry, the guide says so plainly.
Is there a training programme in it?
No, and chapter 8 spends four sections explaining why. A written programme cannot see how you move, and at this stage of life joint range and loading quality matter more than what is on the bar. The chapter tells you exactly what to look for in a coach and what to ask them.
What format is it?
Two PDFs and a web-based calculator. Download the PDFs to any device. The calculator opens in a browser on any phone, with nothing to install and no account to create.
Is this a diet?
No. It starts you at maintenance, which for most women reading this is an increase rather than a cut, and asks you to hold it for twelve weeks. If you want to lose fat afterwards, chapter 3 explains how to do that from a properly restored baseline rather than a suppressed one.
How technical is it?
As technical as you want it to be. Every chapter has a summary box you can act on without reading another word, and then the full biochemistry underneath for anyone who wants it. Both audiences are served on purpose.
The tape measure is a better instrument than the scale.
Everything that matters in this window, the muscle you keep, the bone you defend, the visceral fat you clear, is invisible to the number you have been using to judge yourself.
This is the guide that tells you what to measure instead, and what to do about it.
For general education. Does not replace individual medical advice. This guide contains no advice about hormone therapy. Progesterone is a prescription medicine in most jurisdictions and chapter 9 says so explicitly. If you are unwell, or any symptom described is severe or persistent, see your doctor.
