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 […]
High blood pressure in menopause and beyond: Is this at the heart of your symptoms?
Why is my blood pressure increasing during menopause? This is a question often asked by women in menopause and post-menopause who discover that they have high blood pressure. There are a number of lifestyle solutions that are important for reducing blood pressure. Learn more with My Menopause Transformation™ – Evidenced lifestyle solutions for midlife and older women.
Varicose Veins and Oestrogen – the curious connection in menopause.
She was off to get her veins stripped. “I’m doing weight-training workouts and my legs always feel heavy and sore afterwards. This goes on for a few days, but they also ache and get restless at night,” she mentioned to me. This is something I often hear from women navigating menopause and varicose veins, as […]
Lowering Blood Pressure in Menopause 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 […]
Will combining this diet with the right exercise reduce cholesterol and blood pressure in post-menopause?
When forty obese post-menopausal women in Cairo , aged 50-60 yrs participated in a study exploring the effect of diet and exercise on their cardiovascular health, they would have had no idea how influential it might be on many of us here in my newsletter community. In a shout-out to these women and the researchers, […]
