Is low selenium intake making your menopause symptoms and fatigue worse?
Apparently, there is no region of the South Island in New Zealand, that is shown to have very high levels of selenium occurring naturally in soils. Russia is the same, as is China, Scandinavia and other parts of the world, including some parts of Australia. The low values around the world are related to the […]
The MyMT™ Kitchen: An overnight Focaccia, for your pre-exercise nutrition.
For many years I taught sport and exercise students that endurance athletes rarely compete in the fasted state as this may compromise their fuel stores and performance. Yet, these days, with rigorous fasting regimes for menopause weight management on the rise, I’m finding that many women who are fasting daily, are also participating in intense […]
MyMT™ Education: Foods that shift storage fat to metabolically-active ‘burning’ fat.
If there were some foods that you could help your clients incorporate into their daily food intake, that contained compounds to help them change unhealthy white fat and turn this to highly metabolic brown fat, would they eat them? For those of your clients holding onto menopause belly fat, then yes, I hope they would. […]
Menopause and Liver Health
Why your liver matters more than you think for your menopause symptoms It took me a long time to turn my back on the popular Keto diet and the high intensity exercise mantra that pervades the fitness and dieting industries today. There’s a few women on my programme who have now learnt to do this […]
MyMT™ Education: Help your menopause clients turn down high blood pressure with potassium-rich foods.
I know myself that confusion abounds about ‘what to eat’ to manage menopause symptoms and despite lecturing in nutrition for years at university level, I used to feel that confusion too! But with the menopause transition known to bring inflammatory changes to our blood vessels, it made sense to explore the nutritional and heart-health science […]
Relief for your tender breasts during menopause.
“I have to wear three bras to go for a run – my breasts have got so big and sore!” she cried as she left a message on my phone. “They’ve never been this big in my life and I hate how it’s uncomfortable to run.” My personal trainer friend was frustrated. How this bought […]
MyMT™ Education: Educating (Menopausal) Rita
I remember the movie vividly. It was around 1983 and as a young student nurse in my early 20s, my friend and I went to the theatre to view it. The theatre was entirely full of women, many of them middle-aged. Rita, (played by the fabulous Julie Walters), was a 20-something hairdresser who wanted to […]
The MyMT™ KITCHEN: Healthy Chocolate Bliss Balls from Louise at Holcombe Clinic
Physiotherapist and business owner of Holcombe Health Clinic, in the UK, Louise Hayes, is a holistic Physiotherapist and an Affiliate Practitioner with MyMT™. This means that she does one-on-one coaching of the MyMT™ programmes for women in her community, wrapping them around her own coaching and exercise practice in a programme called HOW2MENOPAUSE. These amazingly, […]
VIDEO: “My Christmas lilies are blooming, which means it’s that time of year to slow down!”
My Christmas lilies are looking magnificent up the back of my garden. It’s a seasonal reminder here in New Zealand that the end of the year is upon us, and despite everything going on in our lives, it’s time to slow-down and reflect on the year that’s been. Has it been a busy year for […]
