MyMT™ Podcast: Menopause, Inflammaging and Women’s Longevity
LISTEN HERE The older you are, the higher the health risk. Our life-course and the processes that age us, are actually, a really long process. I was mentioning this to the Founder of Australia’s Healthy Ageing Institute, Ken Baldwin, before the podcast that he recorded. Ken has been trying to track me down to do […]
Feeling exhausted? How your fatigue impacts your menopause symptoms and weight gain.
Why fatigue and stress impact hormonal balance. The concept of the Stress Adaptation Response was first conceptualized 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 of (1) alarm reaction, (2) adaptation stage, followed by […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: The effect of water on gut health (and menopause symptoms) in midlife.
When you walk around the lake-front of the small town where I live, there is a natural spring which draws water from an aquifer high up in the mountains. This water is ‘hard’ water. Studies have shown that consuming “hard” drinking water, which has higher levels of calcium and magnesium, is associated with lower arterial […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: New Research on Fat and Fibrosis (Scar Tissue) in Overweight and Obese Midlife Women
‘In the state of overweight and obesity, fat cells become dysfunctional and increased inflammation causes them to become fibrotic.’ [Zhang, Lu et al., 2024] It all makes so much sense to me now. With a relatively new article arriving in my inbox backing up what I was feeling at the time – the increased fat […]
Protein and menopause: Will increasing your protein intake reduce menopause belly fat?
Peri-Menopause is an inflammatory phase of the woman’s life-cycle. Sex, Myths and Menopause – I saw this well-publicised documentary made by the UK’s Celebrity Journalist Davina McCall, a couple of years ago now. She didn’t realise she was in peri-menopause and like millions of women, she was confused about her hot flushes, depression, and brain […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: Can gut health cause high blood pressure during menopause?
The complexity of women’s lives never ceases to amaze me. And I don’t just mean with their ‘busyness,’ but also their health. By the time many women find MyMT™ they have tried everything, but they also are in a worse state with health changes, especially joint, gut and heart health changes. Abdominal distension is a […]
A Tangled Threesome: Circadian rhythm, body temperature and menopause hot flushes.
We’re all being told that climate change is a critical concern throughout the world, and as sprng moves into summer soon in my part of the world, and the temperature heats up, I know how tough the outside temperature may be for those of you struggling with hot flushes and night sweats. Many of my […]
Hypertension and Menopause: Your morning wake-up heat wave and the Cortisol Awakening Response [CAR].
“Do you know why, when I immediately wake-up, I get a heat surge through my body?” she asked. The question took me back in time. In my early 50s, I experienced the same phenomenon. Even though I’m in post-menopause now, I still have the odd ‘heat surge on waking-up’ moment. When this happens, I now […]
Nutrition Beyond Menopause: Understanding post-menopause inflammation.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified the ageing of the global population as one of the most significant demographic challenges worldwide and this includes those of you who are already in your post-menopause years. As the first generation of women to come through a diverse array of diets over the past few decades, I’m […]
