The MyMT™ Kitchen: Irish Soda Bread and my Pumpkin Soup recipe – a winner for your midlife health.
The breakfast waiter gave my daughter a loaf to take back to her flat in London. They had been talking about rugby after he realised that we were ‘Kiwis’ from New Zealand – he even knew about the women’s World Cup Rugby which has just finished. When my daughter mentioned how much she liked the […]
New Research: The Water You Drink – and its effects on your gut health in midlife.
When you walk around the lake-front of the small town where I live, there is a natural spring. I became interested in it when I went into menopause. Not because of its aesthetic value, but because it reminded me of the small mountain village in Switzerland, which is home to a source of glacial water […]
“I’m now inspired and excited about my future living my best life!” [Suzy, Australia].
“Here I am on the other side of menopause and I can’t thank Dr Wendy Sweet enough for the caring, honest and informed way she guided me through my menopause journey. I was in my early 40s with increasingly worsening health and little help as no one understood what was happening to me, including me. […]
New Research: Foods that shift storage fat to metabolically-active ‘burning’ fat.
If there were some foods that you could incorporate into your daily food intake, that contained compounds to help you change unhealthy white fat and turn this to highly metabolic brown fat, would you eat them? For those of you holding onto menopause belly fat, then yes, I hope you would. We often get really […]
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 […]
“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.” […]
