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. […]
The MyMT™ Kitchen: Apples – a core consideration for your gut health.
The disease-fighting compounds in apples. Nutritional choices form the cornerstone of disease prevention, treatment, and long-term wellbeing in women, and we all know that our nutrition is important don’t we? I’m always reminding women on my programmes, my mantra, which is – ‘You don’t need a lot of food, just the right food’ and one […]
“Peri-menopause was a challenge, but I’ve lost 7kg, overcome allergies, gut health problems and hot flushes.” [Wendy H., Australia]
“I am what you might call one of your quiet achievers, having devoured all the information you’ve shared over that time and slowly put it into practice. I’ve entered menopause early, officially clocking more than a year without a period just as I turned 48 this year. For me (and my husband), peri-menopause has been […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: Supplements and Alternative Therapies for Menopause Symptoms
Exploring the Efficacy of Menopause Supplements 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 and sore joints, even though they are taking […]
Oestrogen Dominance and Changes to Fat Metabolism in Menopause and Beyond.
Date Published: 9th July 2026 Date Modified: 30th July 2026 Author: Dr Wendy Sweet (PhD) At a Glance Oestrogen dominance in menopause is a term used to describe an imbalance between oestrogen activity and progesterone, particularly as visceral fat increases. During menopause, hormonal changes alter the way women store fat, and metabolically active fat tissue […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: Give your ageing heart the nutrients it needs during menopause.
The Ageing Heart “What worked in the past for your energy and recovery, may no longer work during and after menopause.” [Dr Wendy Sweet] This was the statement I made to a group of Exercise Instructors from both Australia and New Zealand in a recent workshop. I was asking what they did to recover their […]
MyMT™ Education: Lifestyle evidence to improve menopause anxiety and cognition.
‘Despite the overwhelming prevalence of anxiety in modern society, medications often fail to achieve complete symptom resolution. We highlight the roles of the microbiome and inflammation as influencers of anxiety, and discuss the evidence base for specific nutritional interventions.’ [Norwitz and Naidoo, 2021] Most of us know the feelings of anxiety don’t we? The elevated […]
A Tangled Threesome: Circadian rhythm, body temperature and menopause hot flushes.
Hot flushes are frustrating aren’t they? Hot flashes or flushes, are defined as transient sensations of heat, sweating, flushing, anxiety, and chills lasting for 1–5 min, constitute one of the most common symptoms of menopause among women. If they occur overnight as night sweats, they also contribute to insomnia. This of course, leads to increasing […]
