New Research: Turn around your menopause melancholy with this vital vitamin!
If you cast your mind back to your transition through puberty, I wonder if at times, you felt moody, melancholy, grumpy, or angry? Perhaps you felt worthless or un-motivated at times. Perhaps you feel that you’ve lost any propensity for experiencing pleasure in your life from normally pleasurable life events – a description of Anhedonia […]
MyMT™ Education: Feeling Forgetful? Understanding menopause brain changes in midlife.
She emailed me from the UK. “My worst symptom is brain-fog” she mentioned. “I work at a computer all day and I’m feeling forgetful. I’m worried that I will get dementia as my mother did. I wonder if you have any solutions? I’m already on the Paleo diet and doing weight training.” It wasn’t the […]
The MyMT™ KITCHEN: Harness your Hormones with the Blue Zones Creamy Broccoli-Peanut Soup!
It’s a hard word to roll around your tongue, but Diindolylmethane or DIM, is the compound in cruciferous vegetables that makes experts advise people at risk for breast cancer to eat more cabbage and broccoli as a preventive measure. This important compound makes broccoli the Queen of the Crucifers, as it has an impact on […]
Does your ageing, tired thyroid need the magic of these nutrients?
The new study came out of beautiful Nepal – not a country that I would associate with changing thyroid function in some of the population, but apparently so. The study’s purpose was to evaluate whether blood levels of calcium, magnesium and phosphorus were out of balance in hypothyroid cases. (Dhungana et al, 2022). With a […]
PODCAST: Menopause and Exercise
What describes you – are you lean and mean and usually a killer on the gym floor and starting to struggle? Or do you have a patchier relationship with exercise, have put on a few kilos and are just wondering how to get through the day?, mentions research scientist and ZEST Wellness Founder, Dr Anna […]
The MyMT™ KITCHEN: My Blood Orange Smoothie is bursting with vital Vitamin C.
Oranges, especially blood oranges, are a rich source of Vitamin C. The many phyto-nutrients they provide are an additional benefit for those of you experiencing muscle aches and pains, especially after exercise. Many of these benefits, aren’t found in Vitamin C supplements. For those of you who are regular exercisers and experiencing sore joints and […]
“Since becoming a MyMT™ Practitioner, I’ve set up a support group for women. The results have been phenomenal.” [Maxine, UK]
“I really feel that there is so much emphasis on HRT for menopause symptoms here in the UK, that women are not aware of the lifestyle evidence. And I used to be the same. Four years ago, menopause had overwhelmed me so much that just the simplest of things would make my heart palpitate. I […]
New Research: Menopause weight gain, oestrogen storage in fat cells and changing cardiovascular health.
‘Menopause is usually a cause of many concerns’, mentions the 2017 report on obesity in menopause (Kozakowski et al, 2017), ‘and one of the most important, is the fear of weight gain’. Overweight and obesity, according to the definition of the World Health Organization (WHO) are considered as an abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that […]
MyMT™ Education: Menopause Depression and Exercise – A time for change.
The day I left my Doctor’s clinic with my first ever prescription for anti-depressants, was the day I pulled out all the research I could find relating to menopause-related depression, including the role of exercise. I was confused as to why, when I have never had depression in my life, it had arrived during my […]
