From the MyMT™ Kitchen: Beat the Heat with an Anti-Inflammatory Cold Gazpacho Soup
Gazpacho or gaspacho, also called Andalusian gazpacho, is a cold soup and drink made of raw, blended vegetables. Whilst it originated in the southern regions of the Iberian Peninsula and spread into other areas, it is widely eaten in Spain and Portugal. I was reminded of this refreshing soup, not only after reading about the […]
A Step in Time : How moderate walking helps your menopause symptoms.
Have you forgotten what ‘moderate exercise’ means to you? Despite my years of teaching exercise prescription to students, I know that I had! I love seeing women in my private coaching group out walking and hiking. With all the increased publicity about weight training for bone health, I feel that walking isn’t getting the attention […]
Restore your Joyful Joints in Menopause with this Vital Vitamin!
The collagen industry is booming and women arriving in mid-life are often the target judging by the number of advertisements promoting the need for collagen. With the promise of mid-life nirvana, whereby all our aches and pains miraculously go away, we end up spending hundreds of dollars on supplements, specialists and various nutrition programmes. They […]
Varicose Veins and Oestrogen – the curious connection in menopause.
She was off to get her veins stripped. “I’m doing weight-training workouts and my legs always feel heavy and sore afterwards. This goes on for a few days, but they also ache and get restless at night,” she mentioned to me. This is something I often hear from women navigating menopause and varicose veins, as […]
MyMT™ Education: Why do feet become hot and sore during the menopause transition?
Understanding Menopause and Sore Feet Most women, nor their Practitioners, never give the ageing of the feet and legs a thought during the perimenopause to post-menopause transition … that is until the client’s mobility becomes affected. Positioning the menopause transition in health and ageing physiology during my doctoral studies, gave me incredible insight about why […]
Why ‘inflammaging’ matters to your menopause and post-menopause symptoms.
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 years old. Interestingly, it was still heart disease (which […]
What Reduces Menopause-related Depression in the Hadza women of Tanzania?
I often talk about the fascinating research into the daily lives of the Hadza women of Tanzania in my live events. As I share the investigative studies into the lives of Hadza women in Tanzania and their experiences of menstruation and menopause, including post-menopause, by Biological Anthropologist, Dr Katherine Fitzpatrick from the UK, there is […]
5 Reasons for your Menopause Weight Gain
The Science of Menopause Weight Gain I remember the morning distinctly. I got out of bed and hobbled to the bathroom, dismayed that my weight was going up not down. I wasn’t sleeping and it seemed like every joint in my body was aching. But it was the belly-fat and diaphragmatic fat that filled me […]
MyMT™ Education: The effect of citrus and their components on inflammation and immunity.
Citrus fruits have been present in the diet of people living in Asia and the Mediterranean basin since the time of the Roman Empire. Not only do these fruits play an important role in the landscape but also in the diet of these populations. [Duarte et al, 2016; Naureen, 2013]. I talk a lot about […]
