Menopause and Hot Flushes: Beat your heat by controlling your blood sugar levels.
Understanding the Blood Sugar and Hot Flush Connection Studies investigating the impact of sugar consumption on human health have been ongoing since the mid-20th century. The stats about the increase in sugar intake are overwhelming, particularly in the USA, where the consumption of soft drinks per capita has increased by about 500% over the past […]
Every Sip Counts: Water Intake and your Gut Health, Hot Flushes, Brain Fog and Healthy Ageing
Why Water? When you walk around the lake-front of the small town where I live, there is a natural spring. I became interested in it when I went into menopause. Not because of its aesthetic value, but because it reminded me of the small mountain village in Switzerland, which is home to a source of […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: Chronic stress and the effect on liver mitochondria during menopause.
Stress Affects Energy Production in the Liver Mitochondria The liver is a fascinating organ – especially as women transition menopause. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the expression “the liver stores the soul and controls the deliberations” indicates that the liver plays an important role in the process of regulating emotion. This is because the liver […]
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. […]
