Glucose and hormones, managed together.

Menopause and glucose are connected

The menopause transition affects insulin sensitivity at the same time weight distribution and lipids are shifting. For women with prediabetes, the transition is often when numbers start moving; for women with established diabetes, it can destabilize control that was previously routine — and disrupted sleep from night sweats makes glucose harder to manage still.

Home territory

Our parent practice, Diabetes and Endocrine Specialists, is one of San Diego's leading diabetes groups — continuous glucose monitoring, modern medications, and clinical research are daily work, not an add-on. At MenoExperts that means your glucose is managed alongside your hormones by physicians for whom both are specialty territory, rather than in a separate silo with a separate chart.

Hormone therapy and diabetes

Two facts most patients have never been told: well-controlled diabetes is not a contraindication to hormone therapy, and hormone therapy is associated with a roughly 30% reduction in the incidence of new type 2 diabetes, with modest improvements in HbA1c in women already diagnosed. When we do prescribe for a woman with diabetes, transdermal estrogen is preferred. We do not start hormone therapy to prevent diabetes — but the interaction is one more reason glucose and hormones belong in one plan.