# Modern menopause support starts with metabolic health

Sprints is the metabolic, behavior‑change program elevating Carrot’s menopause journey. It helps people take control of symptoms and long‑term health with small, context-driven recommendations that fit their lives.

## The missing factor: menopause is also a metabolic transition

Menopause is not just a hormonal shift; it’s a metabolic turning point. Most people enter this phase with sub‑optimal metabolic health, and how they move through perimenopause sets a new baseline for symptoms now and long‑term cardiovascular and bone‑health risk — but most programs still treat it as a short‑term symptom phase.

**Baseline metabolic health**  
Only about 12% of U.S. adults have optimal metabolic health when they reach midlife.

**During menopause**  
Visceral fat tends to increase more rapidly.  
Insulin resistance, lipids, and blood pressure can worsen.  
Bone loss accelerates.

**Menopause experience**  
Amplifies symptoms now: sleep disruption and fatigue, hot flashes and night sweats, brain fog and mood swings, weight changes.  
Elevates long‑term risks: higher cardiovascular and bone‑health risk if metabolic health isn’t actively supported.

## Sprints provides an opportunity to make meaningful changes

By actively supporting metabolic health during menopause, members have a real opportunity to substantially reduce or even prevent many symptoms and long‑term risks — but they need day‑to‑day support to do it.

## How Sprints elevates the menopause journey

Experts decide the “what”; Sprints optimizes the “how” — turning a traditional menopause benefit into modern menopause support.

- Targets metabolic root causes, not just symptoms
- Focuses on the metabolic drivers — sleep, movement, nutrition, and stress — that amplify symptoms and long‑term cardiometabolic and bone‑health risk.
- Gives members a clearer way to work on what’s underneath their hot flashes, brain fog, and fatigue, not just react to them.
- Moves beyond triage and education
- Adds a motivational, behavior‑change engine on top of Carrot’s education, experts, and steerage, so support continues between visits.
- Actively supports metabolic health, not just awareness sessions and one‑time consults.
- Turns menopause support into daily, realistic actions.

Supported by Carrot Intelligence, Sprints meets members where they are with context-driven recommendations based on their unique symptoms, goals and personal inputs.
Empower people to find a new sense of balance and control.

## Sprints meets members wherever they are in menopause

Every menopause journey is different. Sprints adapts to phase, symptoms, and goals.

### Late reproductive

Helps people connect subtle changes — like sleep strain, weight shifts, or brain fog — to the beginning of their menopause journey.  
Builds simple routines now so they’re not blindsided later.

### Perimenopause

Focuses on the symptoms that make work and life hardest — from night wakes to brain fog.  
Pairs targeted habit support with Carrot experts and telemedicine options where available.

### Postmenopause

Shifts focus toward protecting heart, bone, and metabolic health for the long term.  
Gives members a clear roadmap for staying strong and active, even if they “muscled through” menopause without support.

## Carrot's modern menopause journey provides impact that matters

### Carrot members

- Better sleep, energy, and clarity in day‑to‑day life.
- A stronger sense of control and confidence in a stage that’s often confusing and isolating.

### Impact on your organization

- Reduce hidden drain from unmanaged symptoms — fewer quiet exits, fewer “just getting by” days.
- A menopause program you can confidently call modern menopause health, not just awareness and triage.

## Turn your menopause benefit into modern menopause health

See how Sprints for Menopause can elevate your existing menopause journey — or help you build one that’s ready for what your workforce needs now.