The Consultation
No sales pitch. No 90-second telemedicine banner. You'll see exactly how the four-group intake works, how your answers map onto an approach recommendation, and what “research-backed” actually means in our practice — not a clinician you never meet, but a research-backed clinical curator who reads your intake personally and threads your record across hormonal phases.
No preparation required
Most women who arrive at an Eterna Femme consultation have never been on peptides. Many haven’t been inside a forward-looking clinic in years. The intake is built for that reader — not a clinician with a checklist in hand, not a researcher with a screening instrument, but a woman in midlife who wants one careful conversation about whether peptide therapy fits her.
The form takes five to seven minutes. There is no fasting. There is no lab work — though if you have recent bloodwork, you’re welcome to share it. The form does the heavy lifting. Your job is to answer honestly; ours is to read what you wrote.
Not sure which hormonal phase you’re in? Read the phase primer →A research-aligned intake
The intake is broken into four groups: where you are in your transition, what you’re experiencing right now, your hormonal and medical history, and your daily life and goals. Each group has a specific job.
Group A
What the form asks
Why we ask
The phase marker tells us how to read the next twelve months. Perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause aren’t adjacent stages with the same playbook — they’re three different hormonal environments with three different approach emphases. One answer keeps everything downstream in the right register.
Group B
What the form asks
Why we ask
These seven tokens were chosen because they’re the symptoms most consistently reported by women 40+ — not a generic checklist. Selecting what’s present now gives the curator the symptom-axis fingerprint that drives the approach “lead with” decision below.
Group C (optional)
What the form asks
Why we ask
These details are specific to perimenopause and beyond — not lifted from a general intake. HRT use and surgical history shape which approaches can be sequenced; medications and contraindications keep the recommendation safe. Skip what doesn’t apply — we’ll reconstruct the rest from the conversation.
Group D (optional)
What the form asks
Why we ask
What you’re carrying day to day is separate from your medical history. Sleep, stress, and exercise modulate how a compound settles into your system; your free-text goal line sets the recommendation lens. “Sleep depth” reads very differently from “body composition” against the same symptom picture.
From answers to recommendation
The intake is read against four core approaches. The mapping is a starting hypothesis — never a prescription — refined on the follow-up call.
Recovery & Vitality
Lead trigger: recovery and energy, especially in early perimenopause — joint comfort, fatigue, or a connective-tissue conversation.
Read Recovery & Vitality →Sleep & Restoration
Lead trigger: primary sleep concern — fragmented, wired-and-tired, or insomnia-like — paired with perimenopause or menopause.
Read Sleep & Restoration →Longevity & Cellular Health
Lead trigger: late perimenopause, menopause, or post-menopause with a cellular-aging orientation — telomere and mitochondrial priority.
Read Longevity & Cellular Health →KLOW
Lead trigger: a multi-axis picture — recovery plus sleep plus inflammation plus a premium-posture answer. The quad stack answers several axes at once.
Read the KLOW complex →The mapping is a starting hypothesis, not a prescription. The intake review and follow-up call refine it. If your primary concern is sleep but your secondary one is cellular aging, the curator can lead with one and open the other before the end of the first cycle.
Plain language, not a banner
The phrase usually means a magenta banner: talk to a doctor in 90 seconds. It does not mean what we mean by it. We mean that a research-backed clinical curator — not a triage queue, not an auto-responder — reads every intake personally, then is on the follow-up call with you. Your record threads across hormonal phases. Re-onboarding is not how this works.
Here is what that looks like, in three concrete practices:
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Hand-picked reads that follow from this page — not an algorithmic suggestion.
First 90 days
Week-by-week expectations, what to track, normal-vs-flag thresholds, and how to read your own symptom changes.
Read →Female physiology
The four axes of sex difference that make a male-derived baseline the wrong place to start for women 40+.
Read →Common starting points
If you’re not sure this page matched what you’re feeling this week, the symptom-first entry at /start-here is where most readers place themselves first.
Perimenopause
The consultation reads against your stage — place yourself first in the staging map before the intake.
Start there →Sleep
The dominant symptom — if sleep is the main thing you’re feeling, lead with the symptom card so the intake has good signal.
Start there →Cognition
Cognition drift is one of the four layers the consultation sequences against — start with the card if fog, focus, or word-finding is true for you.
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