Going to Eudēmonia 2026? Here’s what you need to know.
The Eudēmonia Summit comes to West Palm Beach on November 5 to 8, 2026 at the Palm Beach Convention Center. The published agenda carries 257 sessions across four days.
I read every line of it, and then I did the one thing to answer the question every woman has asked me, “How many days should I go?” and “What sessions should I attend?”
The result five free guides based on your goals.
Each one names a single day to attend, the sessions worth your seat that day, what to skip, and an evidence tier on every line. All bases on the stage of life you are in. Pick the one that describes where you are:
- Reproductive Years (cycles regular, roughly 20s through late 30s): go Friday, November 6
- Mid-Life Years (perimenopause, cycles have changed, roughly 40s to mid-50s): go Sunday, November 8
- Post-Menopause (more than a year since your last period, roughly mid-50s and beyond): go Sunday, November 8
Links are at the bottom of this article. Print out your guide.
Educational disclaimer. This article reflects my reading of a publicly published conference agenda. It is education, not medical advice, and nothing here interprets individual results. Thrive for Longevity is an independent 501(c)(3) and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking for the Eudemonia Summit.
Why I did this
Four days and 257 sessions is amazing and expansive. It is a workload just to review and analyze.
Most women I talk to cannot take four days off. They can take one. And the honest problem with a one-day decision is that the schedule is not built to help you make it. Every session is described in language designed to make it sound essential, because every session is competing with eleven others running at the same hour. And if I could, I would attend every session.
So the question I kept getting was simple, and nobody was answering it: if I only go one day, which day should I go?
That is what these guides answer. The day, the room, the hour, and the reason.
Why I sorted by life stage and not by age
This is the part I want you to take away even if you never download anything.
The easy version of this sorts women into age brackets: your 30s, your 40s, your 50s. I did not do that, because the clinical literature does not do that. Life is not based on decades it is based on the evolution of our life stages and each of us is different.
The Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop +10 is the consensus framework most menopause research is built on. It stages women by menstrual and endocrine criteria, and it explicitly recommends applying those criteria regardless of a woman’s age, ethnicity, body size, or lifestyle.1
In practice that means a woman of forty-four can be well into the transition, and a woman of fifty-two may not have started. Sorting by birthday puts both of them in the wrong room. So I sorted the way the research does: by where you are, not how old you are.
If you are between two stages, take both guides. They are free.
What an evidence tier is, and why every session has one
This is what makes these different from a highlight reel.
Every session I list is labeled Standard of Care, Advances, Emerging, or Experimental.
Here is why that matters. There is a session on this agenda whose title names hormone therapy, GLP-1 medications, and peptides together. Hormone therapy for menopause is Standard of Care. GLP-1 medications are an Advance. Peptides are Experimental. That is three levels of evidence, three levels of risk, and three very different price tags, in one title, in one hour.
That session may be excellent. You should simply walk in knowing they are three different things, because nobody selling you any of them is going to draw that line for you.
One limitation, stated plainly: I have the published agenda, not the abstracts, and I have not heard these talks. The tier describes where the underlying science currently sits. It is not an assessment of the speaker.
Why strength and bone content is weighted heavily in all three
One finding shaped every one of these guides.
In the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation, trabecular bone score, a measure of bone strength, showed no meaningful decline until roughly 1.5 years before the final menstrual period. It then fell about 1.16 percent a year, with a total decline of roughly 6.3 percent across the five years before and the five years after that final period.2
Read that again. The loss is not spread evenly across mid-life. It concentrates in a narrow window around a date most women can only identify in hindsight.
The same cohort found that ordinary physical activity, at modest levels, was associated with a slower rate of bone density decline through that window, and that even small increases in intensity, duration, or frequency were associated with less loss.3
That is why skeletal and strength sessions are on all three agendas, including the one for women in their thirties, where it will not feel urgent. It is the least urgent and most compounding hour on the entire schedule.
What I tell you to skip
Every guide has a section headed “what to skip, and why.” That section is not filler. It is the point.
A guide that tells you to attend everything is not a guide. It is an advertisement with a table of contents.
Four days is a long time to spend in rooms, and the sessions that are wrong for your stage are not neutral. They cost you the session you should have been in, and they frequently produce anxiety about a decision that is years away from being yours to make.
One thing the guides do not cover
Of 257 sessions, none address the financial architecture of a long life.
Financial Fitness for Longevity is one of our Seven Pillars, because the cost of living well for thirty additional years is a health question and not a lifestyle one. I flag it here because you should know what an agenda leaves out, not only what it contains.
There is a fourth day, and most people should not buy it unless…
Thursday, November 5, is not the consumer program. Fourteen of its seventeen sessions sit in two professional tracks, Applied Clinical Education and the Health Innovation Lab. If you are coming to learn what to do about your own health, Thursday is the wrong purchase, and Friday or Sunday is the right one.
But some of you are not coming for that. If you treat patients, or you are a founder, operator, or board member who reads the primary literature rather than the summary, Thursday is the only day written at your level. It carries a session on building the vascular phenotype of the longest-lived patients, a genomic framework for timing hormone therapy, and four clinicians on healthspan across generations. I am going.
I am publishing a fourth guide for that day on the same terms as the other three, including which sessions to skip. The clinician badge does not sort rigorous work from sponsored work for you, and on Thursday there is more of the second than you would expect.
One thing changed as I built these.
If you can give the summit only one day, take Saturday. It is the biggest day, 87 sessions, the most talks, and the widest range, so it gives you an overview of the whole field rather than a focus on your stage. If you can give it two days, take Saturday and then pick your stage day for the focus: Friday for the reproductive years, Sunday for perimenopause and for post-menopause.
Download your guides here
Pick the one that describes where you are. Each is one or two pages and reads on a phone.
1. Reproductive Years
Cycles regular, childbearing years, roughly 20s through late 30s. Your day is Friday, November 6.
Download the Reproductive Years guide
2. Mid-Life Years
Perimenopause. Cycles have changed in length, flow, or predictability. Roughly 40s to mid-50s. Your day is Sunday, November 8.
Download the Mid-Life Years guide
3. Post-Menopause
More than a year since your last period. Roughly mid-50s and beyond. Your day is Sunday, November 8.
Download the Post-Menopause guide
4. The Clinical Day
Thursday, November 5. For clinicians, and for non-clinicians who read the primary literature. Fourteen of seventeen sessions are professional tracks, so this is the wrong day for everyone else.
Download The Clinical Day guide
5. The One Day
Saturday, November 7. The broadest day of the summit and the best single-day overview of the longevity field. 87 sessions, the most talks, and the closing keynote. Our guide marks every session with a life stage indicator, so you can read down your own column.
Download The Clinical Day guide
Not sure which is yours? Take the one that matches your cycles, not your age. If you are between two, take both.
Let’s meet in person
If you are going to Eudēmonia, I would like to meet you there.
I am organizing an informal Thrive Meet Up during the summit for women using these guides. No ticket, no fee, no pitch. Just a time and a place to compare notes with other women who came for the same reason you did.
DM me @thriveforlongevity on Instagram and I will send you the details. If you have a question about which guide fits you, send that too. I answer those myself.
So what do I do with all of the data from Eudēmonia?
Come build the plan at Thrive2026
Four days of education tells you what the field is currently arguing about. It does not give you a plan.
Thrive 2026 is Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at the Sailfish Club in Palm Beach, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM, with early activations from 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM. Physician-led education across cardiovascular, dental, muscle and bone, cognitive health, and gut health and nutrition with small group discussions grouped by life stage rather than by age.
Registration is $400 through October 15, then $500.
Frequently asked questions
When and where is the Eudēmonia Summit 2026?
November 5 to 8, 2026, in West Palm Beach, Florida. The Palm Beach Convention Center. The published agenda carries 257 sessions across the four days.
If I can only attend one day of the Eudēmonia Summit, which day should I pick?
It depends on your life stage. Women in their reproductive years should take Friday, November 6, which carries the strongest bone and strength content. Women in perimenopause and women past menopause should take Sunday, November 8.
Why are these guides organized by life stage instead of age?
Because the clinical literature is. The STRAW +10 consensus framework stages women by menstrual and endocrine criteria and recommends applying them regardless of age. A woman of forty-four may be well into the transition while a woman of fifty-two has not started.
What does the evidence tier on each session mean?
Each session is labeled Standard of Care, Advances, Emerging, or Experimental. The tier describes where the underlying science currently sits. It is not an assessment of the speaker, and it is based on the published agenda rather than the abstracts.
Do the guides cost anything?
No. All three are free.
Is Thrive for Longevity affiliated with the Eudēmonia Summit?
No. Thrive for Longevity is an independent 501(c)(3) women’s health literacy and preventive care education platform. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking for the Eudemonia Summit.
References
1. Harlow SD, Gass M, Hall JE, et al. Executive summary of the Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop +10: addressing the unfinished agenda of staging reproductive aging. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2012;97(4):1159-1168. doi:10.1210/jc.2011-3362
2. Greendale GA, Huang M, Cauley JA, et al. Trabecular bone score declines during the menopause transition: the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN). J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2020;105(4):e1872-e1882. doi:10.1210/clinem/dgz056
3. Greendale GA, Jackson NJ, Shieh A, et al. Leisure time physical activity and bone mineral density preservation during the menopause transition and postmenopause: a longitudinal cohort analysis from the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN). Lancet Reg Health Am. 2023;21:100481. doi:10.1016/j.lana.2023.100481
Thrive for Longevity disclaimer
Thrive for Longevity provides educational information based on peer-reviewed research and expert interpretation. This content is not medical advice. Individuals should consult a qualified healthcare professional regarding personal health concerns or conditions.
