Filling in the Gaps: Gut & Metabolic Health for Peri/Menopause
A practical, clinical approach to gut health—built for prescribing clinicians treating women in perimenopause and beyond
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.
You’re running the labs, adjusting HRT & fine-tuning nutrients.
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.
Even if you do run a stool test, you’re handed a report and a copy-paste protocol… with no real strategy for what to do next.
You’re not burnt out because you don’t care.
You’re burnt out because the system gave you labs—but not the tools to interpret them or the training to treat what they reveal.
That’s where this next-level
course comes in.
Filling in the Gaps: Gut & Metabolic Health in Peri/Menopause is designed to equip you with the tools to uncover what conventional care often misses:
SIBO, SIFO, microbial imbalance, SCFA depletion, poor bile flow, gut-brain dysfunction, and more.
This isn’t a general hormone course.
It’s the clinical follow-up you didn’t know you needed—focusing on the gut-based drivers that stall hormone progress and sabotage metabolic health in perimenopausal & menopausal women.
This live course is for clinicians who want to:
✔️ Understand how to approach gut health through a practical, functional lens—without falling into extreme or supplement-heavy protocols
✔️ Feel more confident managing midlife symptoms like bloating, constipation, fatigue, mood swings, and histamine reactions that don’t resolve with HRT alone
✔️ Know when and how to use functional stool testing—especially the Gut Zoomer—and how to interpret microbial diversity, SCFAs, pathogens, and immune markers with clarity
✔️ Improve outcomes without burning out your patients or your visit time—by using treatment timelines and layering gut repair with hormone and metabolic care
✔️ Finally connect the dots between chronic GI dysfunction, hormone imbalances, thyroid shifts, insulin resistance, and the downstream effects of stress physiology in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women
What will I learn?
✔️ Module 1: GI Dysfunction in Midlife: Clinical Drivers & Functional Testing
Hypochlorhydria, Bile Flow, Microbial Diversity, SCFAs, Pathogens & Immune Markers
Understand how hormonal shifts impact motility, digestion and gut terrain
Explore the role of low stomach acid, bile flow and microbial balance in peri/menopausal women
Learn how to clinically interpret patterns, immune markers, and the foundations of gut dysfunction in peri/menopause
✔️ Module 2: Gut Zoomer Deep Dive: How to Read It, What to Do Next
SIBO, SIFO and Clinical GI patterns
Learn how to identify and treat SIBO, SIFO and fungal overgrowth
Recognize pattern-based presentations tied to dysbiosis, histamine intolerance and constipation
Know when to test, when to treat empirically, and how to integrate multiple data points
✔️ Module 3: Treatment Strategy: Layering Gut Repair Without Overwhelm
Antimicrobials, Gut Terrain Recovery, and Therapeutic Strategy
Stepwise approach using the 5R framework
Selecting and sequencing antimicrobials, gut lining support, SCFA restoration, and probiotics
How to time and layer interventions without burning out your patient or your treatment plan
✔️ Module 4: Module 4: Case Integration & Treatment Strategy in Action
Real-world application of Gut & Metabolic Concepts in Peri/Menopause
Case-based module to show step-by-step treatment decision-making, including:
How to layer gut treatment with HRT, detox and metabolic interventions
What to do first
Patient communication: setting expectations, timelines and how to navigate flares
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
August cohort:
Thursdays 5-7pm PST/8-10pm EST
Investment: $699!
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.
Eligible for up to 8 hours of CE’s for RN’s and NP’s*
Limited Capacity — Save Your Seat
Disclaimer
This course is intended solely for educational and informational purposes. The content presented, including but not limited to lectures, handouts, videos, case examples, clinical frameworks, and supplementary resources, is designed to provide general education about functional medicine approaches to caring for perimenopausal patients.
This course does not constitute medical advice, clinical supervision, or legal authorization to diagnose, treat, prescribe, or practice medicine in any jurisdiction. Participation in this course does not create a provider-patient relationship, nor does it serve as a substitute for appropriate medical training, licensure, or clinical oversight.
All healthcare professionals are responsible for practicing within the scope of their own licensure, state and federal laws, and applicable professional standards. It is the responsibility of each participant to ensure they are acting in accordance with their local medical board regulations, institutional policies, and continuing education requirements.
The course creators, instructors, and affiliated entities assume no liability for any clinical decisions, diagnostic interpretations, patient outcomes, or legal issues arising from the misuse or misapplication of the educational material presented herein.
By enrolling in this course, you acknowledge that you understand and accept these terms.