“I feel so much more positive about myself now. I’ve lost 30kg and my joints feel so much better.” [Linda, NZ]
It’s taken a year and at first, Linda took her time to get underway on the MyMT™ Transform Me programme. Disillusioned with so many other strategies for losing weight, she now understands that none of the other programmes she tried were specialising in her changing heart health and metabolism as she moved into post-menopause. “I’ve done […]
Making Waves: The benefits of cold-water swimming for your heart health and weight management in post-menopause.
Over the past few days, in a small New Zealand South Island town, swimmers have been bravely swimming length after length in an outdoor pool. If you think that this is not an unusual phenomenon, then let me explain … the water temperature in the pool has met the International Ice Swimming Association (IISA) regulation […]
Are you a ‘non-dipper?’ The chain of events connecting your menopause insomnia with high blood pressure.
It’s the dipping that you need overnight. Generally it occurs between 2-4 am – just that time of night, that you may be lying awake, your partner is snoring and you are worrying about well, … everything really. Maybe you are even getting up to use the bathroom – afterall, since you’ve been in menopause, […]
MyMT™ Kitchen: Nutritional and health benefits of this “wonderful fruiting climber.”
The introduction of kiwifruit to New Zealand can be traced to a school teacher, Isabel Fraser, who in 1904 returned from a visit to China with seeds [Richardson, Ancell et al, 2018]. When a new plant catalogue was sent out to his customers, the history of New Zealand kiwifruit mentions that nurseryman, Hayward Wright, listed […]
The MyMT™ Kitchen: Discover powerful protection for your blood vessels with this Italian Tomato and Pepper Sauce.
Sometimes I buy the Roma Tomatoes – they are the low acid tomatoes. Sometimes I buy the vine-ripened tomatoes, rich in redness with the hint of their green stalk linking the fat, juicy tomatoes together. But most of all, I love it when I can walk out of my back door in summer and pick them […]
“Thank you for giving me the tools to help my mind and body relax and stop “fighting it” and go with what was happening to my body during my Menopause Transition.” [Janine, NZ]
“I had struggled for years to lose weight. Then I lost 13kg very quickly. I thought I had an illness when the weight fell off, and had many, many tests done to find I was in post menopause, following a hysterectomy 2 years prior. Wendy, thank you for assisting, guiding, me with tools to help […]
Do you live in Auckland, NZ? Viv is our MyMT™ Affiliate Practitioner offering her Movement and Menopause Reset!
One of my challenges with setting up the world-class MyMT™ programmes, has been the ability to offer women a more one-on-one experience with Practitioners within their community. Support to change lifestyle behaviours is always the one dimension of behaviour change practices that gets a mention in the health literature. When Viv, a trained Pilates and […]
The MyMT™ Kitchen: A delicious Mediterranean salmon salad for daughters and their peri-menopausal mothers.
There’s probably not a woman around, who doesn’t know what ‘PMS’ means. However, it may not be so well understood because there are numerous symptoms that may occur, including anxiety, breast tenderness, food cravings (particularly sugary sweet foods or fatty foods), painful periods and low energy. Whilst discomfort usually begins around 10 days before menstruation, […]
Extra Virgin: Why this oil is important for women’s health during and after menopause.
The island of Ikaria off the coast of Greece is home to some of the healthiest, most vibrant older women on earth. Their lifestyles were researched by Dr Gianni Pes, from the University of Sassari in Italy and Ikaria became part of the Blue Zones group of countries. This is a term coined by Belgian […]
