All About Supplements and Alternative Therapies for Menopause Hot Flushes
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, even though they are taking a variety of menopause supplements. This was me as […]
MyMT™ Education: A spotlight on gut health from peri- to post-menopause.
Every week in my newsletters I try to come up with a topic that I hope will not only interest you, but help you continue your problem-solving conversations with your midlife clients. Sometimes it’s because of a topic in my coaching group, causing me to remember the issues that I struggled with when transitioning through […]
Is low selenium intake making your menopause symptoms and fatigue worse?
Apparently, there is no region of the South Island in New Zealand, that is shown to have very high levels of selenium occurring naturally in soils. Russia is the same, as is China, Scandinavia and other parts of the world, including some parts of Australia. The low values around the world are related to the […]
The MyMT™ Kitchen: An overnight Focaccia, for your pre-exercise nutrition.
For many years I taught sport and exercise students that endurance athletes rarely compete in the fasted state as this may compromise their fuel stores and performance. Yet, these days, with rigorous fasting regimes for menopause weight management on the rise, I’m finding that many women who are fasting daily, are also participating in intense […]
MyMT™ Education: Foods that shift storage fat to metabolically-active ‘burning’ fat.
If there were some foods that you could help your clients incorporate into their daily food intake, that contained compounds to help them change unhealthy white fat and turn this to highly metabolic brown fat, would they eat them? For those of your clients holding onto menopause belly fat, then yes, I hope they would. […]
Menopause and Liver Health
Why your liver matters more than you think for your menopause symptoms It took me a long time to turn my back on the popular Keto diet and the high intensity exercise mantra that pervades the fitness and dieting industries today. There’s a few women on my programme who have now learnt to do this […]
MyMT™ Education: Help your menopause clients turn down high blood pressure with potassium-rich foods.
I know myself that confusion abounds about ‘what to eat’ to manage menopause symptoms and despite lecturing in nutrition for years at university level, I used to feel that confusion too! But with the menopause transition known to bring inflammatory changes to our blood vessels, it made sense to explore the nutritional and heart-health science […]
Relief for your tender breasts during and after menopause.
“I have to wear three bras to go for a run – my breasts have got so big and sore!” she cried as she left a message on my phone. “They’ve never been this big in my life and I hate how it’s uncomfortable to run.” My personal trainer friend was frustrated. How this bought […]
MyMT™ Education: Apples – a core consideration for your midlife client’s gut and liver health.
The disease-fighting ccompounds in apples Will an apple a day keep the Doctor away for women during their menopause transition? If we follow the research on the effect of a whole apple (especially the skin), on liver health and the gut microbiome, then yes, women who eat an apple a day, may well be improving […]
