Gut Feelings: Is there a link between increased fruit intake, gut health and your menopause brain fog?
Over the past decade, the gut microbiome has emerged as making an important contribution to human health, with increasing interest into how it may also influence symptoms during and after the menopause transition. Feelings of melancholy and sadness are known symptoms during your midlife menopause transition. This is because the levels of your reproductive hormones […]
MyMT™ Education: The role of RYE in cardiac health during menopause.
“After this past year of avoiding whole-grains completely based on the diet I was on, I now realise that this was the wrong thing to do now that I’m in my 50’s. I’ve lost 5 lbs & I’m feeling amazing. I have so much more energy.” [Kirsten, USA] Most women joining me on the MyMT™ programmes […]
Nutrition and Immune Function: Evidence for boosting respiratory immunity during menopause.
Bergamot, Quercetin, Oleuropein … how many of you are getting these powerful and scientifically evidenced nutrients into your diet every day? Especially, as we continue to navigate the viral chaos that has changed our lives. I have numerous ladies in the MyMT™ Community who were diagnosed positive for the current virus that continues to linger […]
Feeling anxious? Hot flushes frustrating you? HRT is in short supply in New Zealand, so is there a lifestyle alternative?
Shortages of some hormone replacement therapy (HRT) products have hit the headlines lately and the Radio New Zealand reporting of a national shortage of Hormone Replacement Therapy patches in New Zealand didn’t surprise me (18th May, 2024). Afterall, the same situation happened in the UK in 2019 – “HRT: UK faces shortage for menopausal women” […]
The MyMT™ Kitchen: Chickpea Stuffed Smoky Aubergine
The aubergine or eggplant isn’t for everyone – especially if you are allergic to plants that fall within the nightshade family (Solanaceae). Aubergine, along with tomatoes, potatoes and peppers, and other crops, can be tricky for women who are troubled by nightshade plants, which can contribute to gut inflammation and irritable bowel syndrome. But if […]
Beyond Hot Flushes: Heat and your Leaky Gut in Menopause
It’s a little bit difficult to be talking about heat stress during the menopause transition at the start of a South Island, New Zealand winter, but many of you are also heading into your summer months … perhaps, you are concerned about beating the heat, now that you are in menopause? Or perhaps you are […]
“When we produce too many stress hormones during menopause, our body cannot produce sex hormones.” [Kellie Stirling, Sexuality & Relationship Coach]
I love the name of Kellie’s facebook group – “The Heroines Journey” – how apt for mid-life women! When Kellie got hold of me to tell me how much she had enjoyed doing the MyMT™ Circuit Breaker programme, she also mentioned that she was a Certified Developmental Coach and VITA™ Sexuality, Love and Relationship Coach, […]
The Moment of Midlife: Women’s Midlife Health Research Remains Unfinished
“Back in 1990 there was no market incentive to look after the health of midlife women, because in the eyes of decision makers, they presented no ‘economic value’. Today, we finally have those numbers. But, what isn’t shown, and what economists always find the hardest to estimate, is the indirect costs i.e. the untold story.” [Georgia […]
The MyMT™ KITCHEN: Crunch your way through this Cabbage, Celery Salad
The literature on the role of inflammation in health has grown exponentially over the past several decades and paralleling this growth has been an equally intense focus on the role of diet in reducing inflammation, especially for cardiovascular health benefits. (Hebert, et al., 2019). The Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) was developed in 2004, to provide […]
