Filling in the Gaps: A Functional Framework for Peri/Menopause

A practical, clinical approach to bridging conventional & functional care—for women and the providers who serve them

Are you a provider frustrated by how limited the options feel for your perimenopausal patients?

You’ve read the studies. You’ve tried the protocols.

But when another 30-60 year-old woman sits across from you exhausted, gaining weight, crying over anxiety and bloating she can’t explain—you find yourself saying the same things:

🤷‍♀️ “Your labs are normal.”

🤷‍♀️ “This is just part of aging.”

🤷‍♀️ “I think you’re just stressed”

🤷‍♀️ “We can try birth control or an antidepressant.”

And every time, it feels a little worse. Because deep down, you know:

🚫 You’re not addressing the root cause.

🚫 Your patient deserves more than a band-aid.

🚫 And you deserve better tools than “watch and wait.”

You’re not burnt out because you don’t care.

You’re burnt out because you’re working in a system that doesn’t equip you to actually help.

🎯 This live course is for providers who want to:

✔️ Understand what functional medicine actually is (and what it's not) — and how to use it responsibly in a clinical setting

✔️ Feel more confident managing fatigue, weight gain, mood changes, cycle issues, and more

✔️ Know when to test, when to refer, and when to just listen

✔️ Improve patient satisfaction and outcomes without throwing the kitchen sink of supplements or labs

✔️ Finally connect the dots between hormones, gut health, thyroid, insulin resistance, and stress

What will I learn?

✔️ Session 1: What Functional Medicine Is (and Isn’t)

  • What functional medicine actually is—and what it’s not

  • Core frameworks: systems biology, the timeline, and the matrix

  • How to start thinking functionally within your current clinical model— even in a conventional setting

  • Why the current system fails midlife women (and what you can do differently)

  • Case example: the “everything looks normal” patient

✔️ Session 2: Understanding the Hormonal Shifts of Perimenopause & Menopause

  • Hormonal fluctuations in the 30s–50s: estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, cortisol, insulin, thyroid

  • The role of the HPA/ HPO axis, neuroendocrine changes, and metabolic shifts

  • How to spot patterns of dysfunction—even when labs look normal

  • Conditions that evolve in peri/menopause: endometriosis, PCOS, PMS, PMDD, anxiety, depression

  • What to test, when to test, and how to explain it to your patients

  • Real case example + symptom mapping by hormone pattern

✔️ Session 3: Making sense of Hormone Replacement Therapy

  • Who needs it, when to start it, and how to personalize it

  • Risks, benefits, and misconceptions around estrogen, progesterone, testosterone

  • Different delivery forms (oral, transdermal, compounded) and how to choose

  • How to layer HRT into a functional plan instead of leading with it

  • Case-based decision making + patient education pearls

✔️ Session 4: Gut, Liver, Stress & Hormones—The Underlying Drivers

  • Gut health and the estrobolome

  • Liver detox pathways: phase I, II, and estrogen clearance

  • Cortisol, perceived stress, trauma, and burnout in midlife

  • Tools to supporting these systems

  • Functional testing: stool, cortisol/DUTCH, toxin load & what to not waste money on

  • Nutrition and lifestyle interventions that actually move the needle

✔️ Bonus: From Theory to Practice—Cases, Tools & Career Moves

  • Walk through functional medicine case examples with lab reviews, interventions, and follow-up outcomes

  • Explore real patient presentations like fatigue, weight gain, cycle irregularities, and anxiety in midlife women

  • See how to apply root-cause thinking even when time is limited or testing is incomplete

  • Functional medicine programs & courses: what not to spend your money on

Ideal for:

  • Clinicians like you—nurse practitioners (NPs), physician assistants (PAs), MDs/DOs, RNs, and other healthcare providers in primary care, women’s health, hormone clinics, in-patient acute care, and other outpatient specialty settings.

  • Clinicians who feel limited by conventional tools and want deeper strategies for supporting women in midlife

  • Providers looking to better understand a functional medicine approach to hormones, HRT, and the root causes behind fatigue, mood shifts, weight gain, and cycle irregularities

  • Anyone ready to bridge the gap between evidence-based medicine and personalized care

  • Functional medicine-curious providers who want a clinical, non-woo approach grounded in real patient outcomes

Who You’re Learning From:

Stacy Marie Ronquillo MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, AGACNP-BC, IFMCP

Hi, I’m Stacy Marie Ronquillo—double board-certified Family & Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, certified by The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM), former ER lifer turned functional medicine provider, and founder of Remedy Functional Medicine.

After nearly two decades in conventional medicine, I saw firsthand how often midlife women were dismissed, misdiagnosed, or put on medications that didn’t truly address their symptoms. I knew there had to be a better way.

Through my functional medicine practice, I help women navigate perimenopause and menopause by looking at the full picture—hormones, gut health, metabolism, and stress—all connected.

But more than that, I created this course to clear up the confusion surrounding functional medicine. It’s not just about supplements. It’s not only for the wealthy. And it doesn’t mean throwing out everything you learned in your conventional medicine training.

This course is for providers like you—curious, grounded in science, and tired of saying “everything looks fine” when you know it isn’t.

I’ll show you how functional medicine can be practical, accessible, and clinically impactful—without the overwhelm.

Course Details:

🗓 4 Weekly Live Sessions

📍 Replay Access Included

Tuesday nights in June

June 3rd, 10th, 17th & 24th

6-8pm PST

Via Zoom

Secure your seat at the early bird rate—just $499!

Price increases to $699 on May 15th

Limited Capacity — Save Your Seat

To keep this experience interactive and clinically relevant, space is intentionally limited. This course is live, high-touch, and designed for providers who are ready to engage and ask questions.

🎉 Special Bonus for Founding Members

Enroll now & you will receive priority access to future masterclasses & courses, including:

  • 🔬 PCOS Reframed: From Symptoms to Solutions

  • 💊 HRT Unpacked: Dosing, Delivery, and Decision-Making

  • 🧠 Gut Health Explained: Connecting the GI System to Hormones, Mood & Metabolism