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 […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: Nutrition for Women in Menopause and Post-Menopause
Never before, has there been so much focus on different aspects of nutrition for women in their menopause transition, has there? After talking to Health Practitioners on my global zoom calls this week, I hear their concerns – women thinking that they have to go on Keto diets, high protein diets, fasting regimes, supplement regimes […]
Liver Repair in Menopause and Post-Menopause Needs Quercetin
After the skin, your liver is your second largest organ. When my own symptoms were overwhelming me during menopause and I was putting on a lot of weight, I never gave my liver a thought. Nor it seems did any of the Health Professionals I visited at the time. For decades , my beliefs were […]
The MyMT™ Kitchen: A Berry Bonanza to calm your cholesterol.
Many women find that they have an increase in their total cholesterol levels during their menopause transition and I experienced that myself. This is known as hypercholesterolemia – high blood levels of cholesterol and it does warrant monitoring as you move through menopause, because it can lead to changing arterial health. Whilst not all cholesterol […]
