The curious connection between changing gut health, circadian rhythm and weight gain in menopause.
Changing Gut Health and Sleep in Menopause There are three questions that are typically asked of subjects who undergo sleep studies: During the last month, have you had problems falling asleep? During the last month, did you ever wake up too early, not being able to fall asleep again? During the last year, have you […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: Changing gut health, circadian rhythm and weight gain in menopause.
Changing Gut Health and Sleep in Menopause There are three questions that are typically asked of subjects who undergo sleep studies: During the last month, have you had problems falling asleep? During the last month, did you ever wake up too early, not being able to fall asleep again? During the last year, have you […]
MyMT™ Education: Making Waves: Swimming for heart health and weight management in post-menopause.
Healthy Ageing Benefits of Cold Water Swimming It’s only been quite recently that an event in a small New Zealand South Island town, has attracted swimmers from 16 to 66 years, to bravely swim length after length in an outdoor pool. If you think that this is not an unusual phenomenon, then let me explain […]
The Role of Vitamin D in Menopause – Video: Is lack of this vital vitamin linked to hot flushes, belly-fat and muscle weakness in women?
Vitamin D and Menopause Symptoms: Why It Deserves More Attention The role of Vitamin D on women’s menopause symptoms to this day, remains controversial. Here in New Zealand, numerous women joining me on the MyMT™ programmes are not being tested for Vitamin D before going on HRT. However, with the connection between changing skin in […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: How moderate walking helps your client’s menopause symptoms.
I love seeing women in my private coaching group out walking and hiking. With all the increased publicity about weight training for bone and muscle health, I feel that walking isn’t getting the attention it deserves for the health and symptom reduction of midlife women, especially for brain-fog, anxiety disorders and hot flushes/ flashes – […]
Connecting the dots: Menopause Brain Fog, Fatigue and your Magnificent Mitochondria
Why your Mitochondria Matter in Menopause! Do you ever watch those programmes on TV that trace a person’s ancestry? Or perhaps you’ve had your own ancestry traced. If so, then the ability to do this is thanks to your mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and so on and the number and size of tiny organelles called mitochondria. […]
The MyMT™ Kitchen: Apples – a core consideration for your gut health.
The disease-fighting compounds in apples. Nutritional choices form the cornerstone of disease prevention, treatment, and long-term wellbeing in women, and we all know that our nutrition is important don’t we? I’m always reminding women on my programmes, my mantra, which is – ‘You don’t need a lot of food, just the right food’ and one […]
“Peri-menopause was a challenge, but I’ve lost 7kg, overcome allergies, gut health problems and hot flushes.” [Wendy H., Australia]
“I am what you might call one of your quiet achievers, having devoured all the information you’ve shared over that time and slowly put it into practice. I’ve entered menopause early, officially clocking more than a year without a period just as I turned 48 this year. For me (and my husband), peri-menopause has been […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: Supplements and Alternative Therapies for Menopause Symptoms
Exploring the Efficacy of Menopause Supplements The emails arrive in my in-box every week – women wanting to know if I promote supplements for menopause – [no I don’t, because I’m not a Naturopath] – or asking why they are still getting hot flushes, anxiety and insomnia and sore joints, even though they are taking […]
