Already moving
You walk, lift, swim, ride, or take a class — whatever it looks like. You want recovery, hormones, and fuel working with you instead of against you.
Metabolic optimization & longevity
Find your true north.
Metabolism is the axis everything else turns on — energy, body composition, cognition, longevity. Whether you train six days a week or haven't started yet, we build an individualized plan that supports the health and capacity you're working toward.
Who it's for
Every age, every starting point, every version of fit.
Not a weight-loss fad and not a bodybuilding shortcut. Axis Metabolics is for anyone who wants their capacity to keep pace with their life — the trained competitor, the tired professional, the person who hasn't exercised in a decade, and everyone in between. No prerequisites, no judgment.
Running on empty
The 45-year-old single professional wiped out after work. The parent juggling kids and a career. You need energy back before you can worry about optimization.
Starting now
You haven't exercised in years — or ever — and you just want smarter metabolism choices. No gym membership required. One better direction, starting today.
Playing the long game
You want to keep up with your kids, your grandkids, your own plans — in your fifties, seventies, and past that. Capacity that outlasts trends.
What meets at the Axis
Three inputs. One precise point.
Axis Metabolics is the clinical piece. It works best when it converges with real nutrition and intentional strength training — the coordinates that meet at your Axis, wherever you're starting from.
Movement & Strength
Build or maintain the chassis. Whether you train five days a week or are starting with daily walks, physical work is the foundation. Not active yet? That's fine — many people find the energy to start once their metabolism is supported.
Explore training programs →01Nutrition & Fuel
Fuel the system, don't starve it. Enough protein, enough fuel for strength, and metabolic awareness — no crash diets, no arbitrary restriction.
Explore recipes & fuel →02Optimization Protocols
The clinical piece. Independent clinical oversight, the lab work your protocol requires, and individualized therapies that support what training and nutrition alone can't quite reach.
03Find your protocol
Not sure where to start?
Answer a few questions and we'll show you which protocols are worth talking through with a clinician, based on your goals, starting point, and biggest barrier.
- Takes about 60 seconds
- No full medical intake to start the quiz. Before anything is prescribed, your clinician reviews your full history and labs.
- Results to discuss with your clinician
Find your protocol
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What are you optimizing for?
Choose up to 3. You can refine with your clinician later.
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Protocols
Clinical protocols, prescribed by independent licensed providers.
Each program connects you to independent licensed providers, the lab work that protocol requires, and licensed pharmacy dispensing. Click a protocol to see it on the Axis portal.
Weight Loss & Body Composition
GLP-1 and metabolic care a clinician may prescribe to support fat loss, paired with strength training and enough protein to help you keep muscle.
View protocolMen's Hormonal Health
Testosterone and hormone optimization protocols built around your labs, symptoms, and goals.
View protocolWomen's Hormonal Health
Hormone support through perimenopause, menopause, and beyond, built around your labs and symptoms.
View protocolPeptide Therapy
Peptide care a clinician may discuss for sleep, recovery, body composition, and healthy aging. What fits depends on your labs and history.
View protocolPerformance & Recovery
Care a clinician may discuss to support recovery and help you keep muscle while you train hard or carry a demanding schedule.
View protocolLongevity & Immunity
Care a clinician may discuss to support energy, healthy aging, and everyday resilience — chosen around your labs and goals.
View protocolHormone health
Feeling off isn't always just age. It may be hormonal.
Women · Midlife & perimenopause
Wired at 3 AM. Foggy by noon.
Perimenopause can start years before menopause, and it reaches well beyond your cycle — into sleep, mood, metabolism, muscle, heart and bone.
Free symptom + cycle tracker insideRead the guide →Men · Testosterone & vitalityTired by 2 PM. Slower to recover.
Men today tend to have lower testosterone than men the same age a generation ago. Sleep, body fat, training and stress all play a part.
Free vitality checklist insideRead the guide →The idea
Beyond weight loss.
Beyond bloodwork.
Weight is a single number. Bloodwork is a snapshot. Metabolic health is the system underneath both — and it is the thing worth changing.
Clinicians have more options than they used to — GLP-1 therapies, peptides, bioidentical hormones, and metabolic data — so care can be built around your labs and goals instead of one-size-fits-all. Axis Metabolics exists to make those protocols accessible and individualized.
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Care available in all 50 states and DC, through independent licensed clinicians.
How care works
A licensed clinical team prescribes. A U.S. licensed pharmacy fills.
- 01Find your protocol with the quiz, or connect with a clinician directly.
- 02Your clinician reviews your history and the lab work your protocol requires, then prescribes when appropriate.
- 03Your prescription is filled by a licensed U.S. pharmacy — compounded for you if that is what your clinician prescribed — and delivered to you.
The movement coordinate
You put in the physical work. We discount your protocol.
Whether you train at a partner facility or work with an independent trainer, registered dietitian, or health and wellness coach, we support the people guiding your everyday habits. Active members and clients of our partners receive a one-time discount code from Axis toward their clinical protocol.
- RockBox Fitness
- F45 Training
- Orangetheory Fitness
- Alloy Personal Training
- …and growing
Send a screenshot of your active coaching subscription, client portal, training app, or studio membership receipt. Once verified, we'll email your one-time code to use at intake. The discount applies to your clinical protocol; lab work is priced separately and isn't eligible.
Gym owner, trainer, dietitian, or coach? Partner with Axis Metabolics.
Clinical oversight
The physicians behind the protocols.
The clinicians below are part of an independent medical group — not Axis Metabolics employees.
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Dr. Hinds
Medical Director, independent medical group
Certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine (ABOM). SSRP certified in cellular, peptide, and functional medicine. Certified in Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.
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Dr. Butte
Clinical Advisor, independent medical group — Internal Medicine
Internal medicine physician leading protocols and education for GLP-1s, peptides, and labs. Years of experience operating longevity clinics and advising leading telehealth companies.
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Dr. Morse
Clinical Advisor, independent medical group — OB-GYN & Menopause
Leads hormone therapy protocols and education. Trained at Harvard Medical School, Mayo Clinic, and Johns Hopkins.
Sourcing standard
Only licensed U.S. pharmacies.
Every prescription is filled by a licensed pharmacy in the U.S. If your clinician prescribes a compounded medicine, that pharmacy makes it for you from your prescription. We do not use gray-market products, and we never use anything labeled 'Research Use Only.'
- 503A
- State-licensed, patient-specific compounding pharmacies.
- 503B
- 503B outsourcing facilities — licensed facilities that make compounded medicines in larger batches and follow strict manufacturing rules.
- Rx only
- Every therapy dispensed against a valid prescription.
- No RUO
- We never sell or ship Research-Use-Only material. Ever.
A note on compounded medicines
Some prescriptions are compounded — made by a licensed pharmacy for one person, from that person's prescription. Compounded medicines are not FDA-approved, and FDA has not checked them for safety, effectiveness, or quality the way it checks approved medicines. Your clinician will talk through whether a compounded option, an FDA-approved option, or no medicine fits you — and you can ask which pharmacy will fill your prescription at any time.