MyMT™ │Calm your Climbing Cholesterol During Menopause and Beyond
A Curiosity about Cholesterol and Menopause It was the comment in her book on Women’s Heart Health that piqued my interest. “For women with mildly raised cholesterol and a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, red yeast rice preparation may offer a solution” mentioned world renowned cardiologist, Dr Angela Maas. “Red yeast rice contains monocolin K, […]
MyMT™ Education: Feeling Forgetful? Understanding brain neuroinflammation in menopause and beyond.
The menopause transition is not just an isolated shift of hormones, but it’s now seen as a systemic biological transformation that triggers neuroinflammation, metabolic changes and brain ageing. Whilst the focus is on menopause HRT (MHT), a recent Lancet Healthy Longevity systematic review, commissioned by the World Health Organisation and led by researchers from University […]
MyMT™ │From Hot Flushes to Hypertension in Menopause and Why your Diet is Important.
Menopause, Post-Menopause and High Blood Pressure It’s only been a few years now, that a scientific paper was published by world-renowned women’s cardiac specialist, Professor Angela Maas and her team discussing the female-specific, inflammatory factors that influence a woman’s cardiovascular risk throughout her lifetime. (Maas, Rosano et al, 2021). In a press release from the […]
MyMT™ Education: The Potential of Parsley to Improve Iron and Reduce Menopause Anxiety
The potential of parsley to improve iron and reduce menopause anxiety.
MyMT™ │Are You Caught in the Thickness of Menopause or Post-Menopause Brain Fog?
Whether it’s trying to recall the name of someone, mislaying your car keys or forgetting about the pot on the stove with the rice boiling away to oblivion (you can tell I’ve had experience with this one) or just feeling ‘fuzzy’ and forlorn, many of us have experienced brain fog as we move through menopause. […]
MyMT™ │ Sore Joints? Aching Muscles? Restless Leg Syndrome? Why your aching muscles during menopause need calcium.
Sore joints? Aching Muscles? Restless Leg Syndrome? Why? Perhaps your leg cramps are waking you up at night – a phenomenon known as ‘Restless Leg Syndrome’? Maybe you’re a regular exerciser and don’t understand why your recovery between workouts is taking longer than it used to? Perhaps you find that you can’t climb up and […]
MyMT™ Education: Understanding the muscle-nerve-calcium connection for menopausal clients
Perhaps your client’s are being woken by leg cramps at night? Maybe they are regular exercisers and don’t understand why they aren’t recovering the way they used to? Maybe your clients assume that muscular aches and pains are a normal part of menopause? Or maybe they are taking supplements such as turmeric and glucosamine targeted […]
Sleep All Night: The connection between menopause and your sleepless nights.
Take Action for your Sleep Sooner not Later There are a number of themes in women’s health research that never get a mention when it comes to discussions on menopause. One of these relates to the work of Sociologist, Anthony Elliott, and his exploration of ‘self’. I read his work whilst doing my doctoral studies […]
Why the science of ‘inflammaging’ matters to your menopause and post-menopause symptoms.
Menopause, Cardiovascular Risk and Inflammation – an important connection. Women dying at the end of World War 2 in New Zealand, didn’t have to worry too much about menopause affecting how they were ageing did they? As you can see from the Statistics New Zealand graph below, the average age of death was under 70 […]
