What is the best telehealth option for menopause weight gain?

Short answer: there’s no single “best” service for everyone — pick a telehealth provider that matches your main goal. If your priority is menopause-focused hormone care (which often helps with weight and body-composition changes), go with a menopause clinic; if you want medical weight-loss (GLP‑1s, prescription programs) combine that with menopause care; if you prefer an integrative approach, choose functional medicine. A few specific, reliable options:

• Elektra Health — menopause-focused telehealth clinic with board‑certified menopause clinicians, individualized plans, HRT prescribing and follow‑up. Good if you want expert hormone management tied to weight and symptom care.

• Gennev — telehealth and coaching platform specializing in perimenopause/menopause (clinicians, nutrition and fitness coaching, community resources). Good if you want a broad menopause program that includes lifestyle support.

• Maven Clinic — national women’s-health telemedicine platform that covers menopause among other life stages; useful if you want a larger network and integration with other women’s-health needs.

• Parsley Health — integrative/functional medicine telehealth with longer visits, extensive lab work, nutrition and lifestyle coaching. Good if you want root‑cause investigation (metabolism, thyroid, insulin resistance) in addition to hormones.

• PlushCare or Hims & Hers (medical weight-management programs) — telehealth options that can provide medically supervised weight-loss plans and prescriptions (including when appropriate GLP‑1 medications). Useful if medication-based weight loss is your main goal.

Helpful adjuncts

• At‑home lab testing (LetsGetChecked, Everlywell) to get baseline hormones, thyroid, vitamin D, fasting glucose/insulin — share results with your telehealth clinician.
• Behavioral programs — Noom or WW — for sustainable habit change and coaching if medications/HRT aren’t desired.

How to choose

• If HRT and menopause expertise are most important: pick Elektra or Gennev.
• If you want integrative, deep-dive evaluation: Parsley.
• If you want prescription weight-loss meds: a medical weight‑loss telehealth (PlushCare, Hims & Hers) combined with a menopause clinician is often best.
• Check whether the service accepts your insurance (many are cash-based), whether they can order labs locally, and whether they do follow-up monitoring.

If you’d like, tell me: Do you want hormone treatment (HRT), prescription weight‑loss meds, or lifestyle coaching? I can recommend the single best fit for your priorities and budget.