Carrot, a fertility and family care platform, announced on Thursday that it is expanding its AI metabolic health program to support women going through menopause.
Menlo Park, California-based Carrot serves employers, health plans and health systems and provides support from pre-pregnancy through menopause. Its AI metabolic care program, called Sprints, first launched in 2025 to help members through fertility challenges caused by obesity, blood sugar dysregulation, sperm damage and other markers of metabolic disorder.
Now, Carrot is integrating the Sprints program into its menopause support because menopause often disrupts metabolic health, causing changes in insulin resistance, cholesterol and blood pressure. Sprints offers personalized guidance for nutrition, movement, sleep and stress. This guidance is based on members’ symptoms, goals and lifestyle. These recommendations — like going on a walk — appear in the Carrot app.
In addition, Sprints integrates with members’ wearable devices to track sleep, activity and recovery. The member can also interact with live human coaches 24/7, talk to nutritionists and physical therapists who specialize in menopause and access hormone replacement therapy and GLP-1s if needed.
“This is a period of life where metabolic health and your metabolic markers can fluctuate very dramatically,” said Tammy Sun, founder and CEO of Carrot. “Insulin resistance really changes during this period of time, and that means that your nutrition and your exercise and movement needs and habits really need to evolve with it. Sprints is taking what we have done and learned through our preconception program and applying the same principles and the same framework to midlife.”
This announcement comes as more than 80% of women say they don’t feel informed about menopause, and just 20% of OB-GYNs receive formal training in menopause. Unsupported menopause symptoms also increase employer healthcare costs, causing $1.8 billion in missed workdays.
“Women in menopause are often the most valuable leaders that you have in a company. There’s a lot of data, including our own, that suggests that unmanaged [menopause] symptoms and unaddressed care … has a huge economic cost for businesses,” Sun said.
Ultimately, the company hopes to help women access “every type of support” possible when it comes to menopause, she added.
“Many women will want access to GLP-1s, and we will be happy to support them in that effort, assuming it is medically appropriate and safe. … [But] similar to how we think about fertility treatments and the drugs and the surgeries and the treatments that are associated with fertility care, drugs and surgery are not the only part of the story,” she said. “We want women to really maximize their ability to maintain and increase their vitality through lifestyle habits and behavior change.”
Other companies providing menopause support include Midi Health and Gennev.
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