A spotlight on your changing gut health from peri- to post-menopause.
I see them everywhere – midlife and older women with swollen-looking, bloated stomachs. It’s a topic that also comes up in my coaching group, as women become confused about why their waist circumference and feelings of bloating are changing so rapidly. The topic of gut health has come about recently after a comment in my […]
The MyMT™ Kitchen: Apples – a core consideration for your gut health.
The disease-fighting compounds in apples. Will an apple a day keep the Doctor away for women during their menopause transition? If we follow the research on the effect of a whole apple (including the skin) on our gut microbiome, then yes, we may well help our health as we move through menopause. Apples are one […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: Lost your Libido? Let’s go looking for it then.
If your midlife clients have lost their libido in menopause, then help them find it through lifestyle change!
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: Dietary Protein, Hot Flushes and the Okinawan Ratio.
It took me a long time to understand why my menopause hot flushes were getting worse as I moved through my early 50s, despite the hormone medication. Not only were they embarrassing in public, but also exhausting. Especially the red face and night-time sweating. From evening onwards, they seemed to get worse. A few years […]
Feeling swollen and bloated? Then love your ageing lymphatic system during and after menopause.
Date Published: 7th January 2026 Date Modified: 22nd March 2026 Author: Dr Wendy Sweet (PhD) Overview The lymphatic system plays an important role during menopause because hormonal changes influence lymphatic vessel contraction and fluid regulation. As the ageing lymphatic system becomes less efficient, fluid retention, bloating, and weight changes may occur. Supporting lymphatic drainage through […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: How moderate walking helps your client’s menopause symptoms.
I love seeing women in my private coaching group out walking and hiking. With all the increased publicity about weight training for bone and muscle health, I feel that walking isn’t getting the attention it deserves for the health and symptom reduction of midlife women, especially for brain-fog, anxiety disorders and hot flushes/ flashes – […]
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 […]
MyMT™ Kitchen: Keep your hot flushes at bay on Christmas Day with these delicious recipes.
If there’s one thing I’ve learnt with the thousands of women who have joined me in the MyMT™ community over the past few years, it’s that when I mention food that helps to reduce hot flushes and improve mood, I get the most reaction! Christmas is often a challenging time for numerous women transitioning menopause. […]
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 […]
