The 5-Element Metabolic Method™ Course
Ancient Medicine. Modern Metabolism. At Your Own Pace.

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A step-by-step online course for women who want to understand their bodies, reset their metabolism, and live in alignment with the Five Elements — without diets, extremes, or guessing.

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Course Overview

The 5-Element Metabolic Method Course is the educational and implementation side of the 5E Method.

It’s for women who want to:

  • Understand why their body is behaving the way it is

  • Learn how the Five Elements (Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal) actually affect metabolism, digestion, mood, and hormones

  • Get a clear, structured plan for changing daily habits in a way that honors traditional medicine and nature’s laws

This is not “inspiration,” it’s instruction.
It’s the same framework I’ve used in clinic for years, translated into a clear, teachable, repeatable system you can follow at home.

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What You’ll Learn

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Dimension 1: Water — Restoration & Metabolic Depth

Module 1: Water Identity & Stress Physiology

  • Understanding depletion, burnout, and adrenal patterns

  • Why metabolism collapses when Water is weak

  • Fear, overwhelm, and deep fatigue through the Water lens

Module 2: Nervous System Recalibration & Winter Eating

  • Rooting practices to rebuild reserves

  • Food energetics for cooling excess stress heat

  • Sleep, rest cycles, and circadian alignment

Dimension 2: Wood — Digestion, Liver Flow & Emotional Eating

Module 3: Wood Identity & Digestive Rhythms

  • Liver–Spleen dynamics

  • IBS, bloating, stagnation, and cravings explained

  • How stress impacts the gut–brain axis

Module 4: Food Energetics for Wood & Spring Alignment

  • Foods that support smooth Qi flow

  • Movement, expansion, and emotional regulation practices

Dimension 3: Fire — Heart, Hormones & Emotional Clarity

Module 5: Fire Identity & Emotional Metabolism

  • Anxiety, overthinking, and scattered energy patterns

  • Heart–Small Intestine connection

Module 6: Summer Eating & Nervous System Lightness

  • Foods that cool, calm, and stabilize Fire

  • Joy, connection, and relational balance practices

Dimension 4: Earth — Stability, Nourishment & Daily Rhythm

Module 7: Earth Identity & Metabolic Absorption

  • Spleen Qi deficiency

  • Dampness, heaviness, and visceral belly fat

Module 8: Late-Summer Eating & Lifestyle Structure

  • Food energetics to dry dampness & support metabolism

  • Daily rhythms for grounding and consistency

Dimension 5: Metal — Release, Boundaries & Seasonal Repair

Module 9: Metal Identity & Emotional Release

  • Grief, old patterns, and long‑held emotional weight

  • Lung–Large Intestine detox pathways

Module 10: Autumn Eating & Metabolic Refinement

  • Foods that support clean elimination and clarity

  • Rituals for letting go and reorienting the system

These five Dimensions create a full‑body reset by restoring seasonal alignment, emotional flow, digestive strength, and metabolic intelligence.

How Does This Course Differ From Coaching?

This course exists because most women have never been taught how their body truly works. You’ve been given diets, supplements, and surface-level advice — but never a framework rooted in nature’s laws and the Five Elements.

The 5E Course gives you the education, structure, and ancient wisdom you need to finally understand your metabolism, your digestion, your emotions, and your energy on a deeper level. Before coaching, retreat work, or advanced testing — this course is the foundation that changes everything.

The Course

  • Self-paced

  • Education + structured implementation

  • Ideal if you want to learn the method, apply it, and move at your own speed

  • Lower investment, no weekly coaching commitment

Coaching

  • High-touch, small group or 1:1

  • Deep pattern analysis, personalized protocols, and ongoing accountability

  • Ideal if you want someone in your corner every week

  • Higher investment, stronger container

You can take the course on its own, or use it as the foundation before stepping into coaching or retreat work.

By the end of this course, you’ll:

  • Understand exactly which Element patterns are driving your symptoms

  • Know how to choose and combine foods based on Chinese nutritional therapy, not diet culture

  • Have a daily and seasonal routine that supports — not sabotages — your metabolism

  • Feel more stable emotionally, less reactive, and less drained

  • Have a clean, grounded framework for making decisions about your health

  • Be able to tell the difference between “my system needs rest” vs “my system needs movement/heat/lightness”

  • Stop randomly trying things and start following a method

Finally, Right?

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Your Instructor: Dr. Jennifer Taylor Menda Lac DAC

Teacher, Author, Acupuncturist, Herbalist

The Learning Experience

Ten In‑Depth Modules (Two for Each Element)

A full 10‑module curriculum walking you through Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal. Each module integrates:

  • Element identity & psychological patterns

  • Organ system physiology & symptom interpretation

  • Digestive, hormonal, and metabolic implications

  • Food energetics based on Chinese nutritional therapy

  • Seasonal living practices

  • Emotional medicine & nervous‑system regulation

  • Daily rituals, routines, and Element balancing tools

This is the deepest, clearest explanation of the Five Elements you’ve ever experienced — applied directly to metabolism and daily life.

The 5E Course Workbook (Downloadable PDF)

A beautifully designed guide that includes:

  • Module notes

  • Food energetics charts

  • Seasonal checklists

  • Element symptom guides

  • Reflection prompts

  • Weekly integration practices

  • Emotional & elemental journaling

Elemental Symptom & Pattern Tracker

A structured tool to track:

  • Digestive rhythms

  • Sleep patterns

  • Emotional fluctuations

  • Hormonal changes

  • Stress levels & nervous‑system responses

  • Seasonal shifts

This helps you understand exactly which Element is speaking and what it needs.

Seasonal Eating & Living Guides

A full breakdown of:

  • What to eat each season

  • What to avoid

  • Seasonal rituals

  • Circadian alignment practices

  • Daily rhythms that support your Element type

Food Energetics Quick‑Reference Library

A practical, modern interpretation of Chinese nutritional therapy:

  • Food temperatures (hot, warm, neutral, cool, cold)

  • Flavor energetics

  • Elemental food lists

  • “Stagnation‑free” meal principles

  • How to build plates that support digestion & metabolism

Emotional Medicine Practices

Element‑based emotional support tools:

  • Breathwork

  • Heart‑centered regulating practices

  • Element clearing exercises

  • Release rituals

  • Reflection questions for emotional patterns

At‑Home Elemental Healing Tools

Guided instruction for:

  • Moxa

  • Acupressure

  • Tuning forks

  • Simple meridian balancing practices

Optional: Lab Add‑Ons

  • GI‑MAP testing

  • JONA metabolic/hormone panels

  • Personalized interpretation (if selected)

Optional: Monthly Q&A Calls

Direct access to Dr. Taylor for:

  • Clarification

  • Pattern analysis

  • Element guidance

  • Seasonal check‑ins

12 Months of Course Access

So you can review modules throughout the full seasonal cycle.

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Who’s This Program For?

This course is designed for women who:

  • Are done wasting time on things that don’t work

  • Already respect acupuncture, herbs, or holistic medicine

  • Want to understand the why behind their symptoms

  • Are not ready for (or don’t need) high-touch coaching yet, but want a method

  • Prefer a structured, self-paced approach with expert guidance

Perfect if you:

  • Have stubborn belly fat, bloating, irregular digestion, or “mystery fatigue”

  • Feel like your hormones and moods are running the show

  • Want to use Chinese nutritional therapy and food energetics but don’t know where to start

  • Are curious about the Five Elements and want it explained in plain language that actually applies to modern life

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FAQs

  • You don’t need any prior knowledge. The course teaches the Elements, organ systems, food energetics, and seasonal rhythms in clear, modern language — grounded in real physiology.

  • This course is designed to work with real life, not against it. You can move at your own pace, review modules anytime, and return to practices as your Element patterns shift.

  • The course gives you the entire system — the philosophy, the structure, the food energetics, the emotional medicine, the rituals, and the seasonal tools. Coaching is for women who want personal guidance, accountability, pattern analysis, and deeper clinical interpretation. Many start with the course and upgrade later.

  • No. You’ll learn how to build plates based on digestion, Element patterns, and food energetics — a far more powerful and flexible approach than one-size-fits-all meal plans.

  • Yes. This course focuses on lifestyle, energetics, nourishment, emotional balance, and seasonal alignment. It does not replace medical care, but it pairs well with most health plans.

  • You’re learning from a doctor of Chinese medicine, college professor, and clinical practitioner with over 15 years of experience teaching anatomy, physiology, and Eastern medicine. This course is structured, accurate, clinically relevant, and designed to help you apply the material — not just memorize concepts.

  • Most women experience significant improvements in digestion, energy, emotional regulation, and metabolic patterns when they apply the system consistently. The course teaches you exactly how to do that.

  • You can upgrade to coaching at any time for personalized Element analysis, lifestyle prescriptions, and guided transformation.