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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
“I couldn’t retain information – that’s not helpful when you’re trying to study!” [Wendy, UK]
“When I first joined MyMT™ by age, I should have been post-menopausal. But because of a combination of a polyp and the HRT I was on, I was still getting regular bleeds. By then I had been struggling for several years. Like Wendy, I was part way through my doctoral studies when the full force […]
Reverse Metabolic Syndrome and Manage your Menopause Weight Gain
I remember the conference in New York distinctly. It was 1995, the year my daughter was born. As it’s her birthday this week, I was remembering that trip as it was my first time away from her. However, attending the conference was an opportunity that I didn’t want to miss. I was presenting at an […]
MyMT™ Education: Blowing hot and cold – the link between body temperature and gut health in menopause.
Knowledge about how the gut-microbiome alters aspects of our immune, metabolic and nervous system health has increased 10-fold over the past decade and fortunately, some of this knowledge has also been situated in midlife women’s health. Whilst this increase in research has been mainly due to improved genetic research, it’s also arrived from advances in […]
Losing your menopause and post-menopause weight with the Mediterranean Diet.
When new research arrived in my in-box recently, with the words ‘menopause weight loss’ and ‘minimal exercise‘ jumping out at me, it got my attention. I hope it gets yours too – especially if you are in menopause or post-menopause. There’s a common perception in the world of fitness and exercise that everyone has the time, energy […]
