Menopause weight gain, night sweats and your iron levels: A curious connection.
Every week I think to myself, ‘what might you like to read about when it comes to better understanding your menopause transition’? In pondering this, I often seek inspiration from women on my programmes or from some of you who have emailed me with your questions as you come into the MyMT™ community via my symptoms […]
Can the right nutrients calm your jumpy, restless legs?
If it wasn’t his snoring keeping me awake, it was my aching, cramping, jittery legs. Sometimes my hamstrings would cramp up, sometimes my legs would twitch, sometimes the aching would keep me lying awake for hours. Standing on the cold tiles of the bathroom floor helped a little bit, but doing this at 3am wasn’t […]
“How I used to muddle my way through life before now, I don’t know!” [Kate M., UK]
“After a three-day migraine“, wrote Kate, “I started trawling the internet about how menopause affected migraine, and I stumbled across MyMT™. It seemed to leap out at me as having something meaningful to say to me. However, I am naturally cynical about paying for random information online so I didn’t hold out much hope. But […]
“I had no idea many of my symptoms were related to menopause.” (Kathy, New Zealand)
“It’s hard to believe I’m at the end of this programme the time seems to have flown. Firstly I would like to “Thank you” – I think without this programme I probably have gone crazy! I am now sleeping through the night – no more insomnia or hot flushes keeping me awake, my blood pressure […]
What is Menopause? The evolutionary significance of menopause.
With the possible exception of pilot whales, no mammals studied to date are known to commonly exhibit the cessation of their reproductive capacity as they get older. Except of course, for human females. I didn’t know that. Did you? It wasn’t until I read an intriguing article that I found out – ‘The evolutionary origin […]
The MyMT™ KITCHEN: This clever Cous Cous dish is high in selenium
I had my first couscous dish when I was in the United Kingdom a couple of decades ago. Here in New Zealand, it was a dish that wasn’t part of the traditional fare. Having no idea about what couscous even was, I remember the nutty taste and said, “This tastes like my mother’s semolina dessert.” […]
Sleep All Night: The connection between menopause and your sleepless nights.
There are a number of themes in women’s health research that never get a mention when it comes to discussions on menopause. One of these relates to the work of Sociologist, Anthony Elliott, and his exploration of ‘self’. I read his work whilst doing my doctoral studies and was fascinated by his exploration about the […]
The best exercise to influence brain and cardiac health during menopause and beyond.
We all know that a little exercise or activity makes a big difference to our health, but none more so, than to our brain and cardiovascular health as we move through menopause. In the 1980s I used to teach ‘aerobics’. I had just returned from my OE (Overseas Experience) and was fascinated by the aerobic […]
How too much stress impacts your menopause symptoms and hormone health.
Why have women become so busy and stressed, that this is now affecting their hormonal balance? The concept of the Stress Adaptation Response was first conceptualised in the 1950s by Psychologist, Dr Hans Selye. Since his early research and descriptions of the ‘General Adaptation Syndrome’ (G.A.S.), this syndrome has been seen as a three-stage process […]
