Gut Feelings: Boost your menopause-mood with food, sunlight and a gut health reset too.
You can’t underestimate the powerful effect of your gut health on your melancholy and moods during menopause. A healthy gut significantly impacts mood by producing approximately 90-95% of the body’s serotonin. This is an important neurotransmitter (nerve signal) which helps to regulate happiness, anxiety, moods and sleep. An unhealthy gut (dysbiosis) from poor diet, changing […]
What Reduces Menopause-related Depression in the Hadza women of Tanzania?
I often talk about the fascinating research into the daily lives of the Hadza women of Tanzania in my live events. As I share the investigative studies into the lives of Hadza women in Tanzania and their experiences of menstruation and menopause, including post-menopause, by Biological Anthropologist, Dr Katherine Fitzpatrick from the UK, there is […]
New Research: Turn around your menopause melancholy with this vital vitamin!
If you cast your mind back to your transition through puberty, I wonder if at times, you felt moody, melancholy, grumpy, or angry? Perhaps you felt worthless or un-motivated at times. Perhaps you feel that you’ve lost any propensity for experiencing pleasure in your life from normally pleasurable life events – a description of Anhedonia […]
MyMT™ Education: Menopause Depression and Exercise – A time for change.
The day I left my Doctor’s clinic with my first ever prescription for anti-depressants, was the day I pulled out all the research I could find relating to menopause-related depression, including the role of exercise. I was confused as to why, when I have never had depression in my life, it had arrived during my […]
Menopause Depression and Exercise: A time for change.
The day I left my Doctor’s clinic with my first ever prescription for anti-depressants, was the day I pulled out all the research I could find relating to menopause-related depression, including the role of exercise. I was confused as to why, when I have never had depression in my life, it had arrived during my […]
Losing your Christmas Cheer may be more than just end-of-year exhaustion.
I still remember the Christmas when I went into peri-menopause. It’s usually a time of year I love, but back then, all I could think to myself, was ‘I really can’t be bothered. I have no motivation for Christmas cheer‘. With no energy for shopping, no motivation for social events and feeling conscious about how overweight […]
If you are on anti-depressants in menopause, then your gut health matters too.
2/3 of those on antidepressants in the UK, NZ and Australia are female, and typically in their 50s and 60s. Why is depression so prevalent in women? This was a question posed by researchers in Canada (Albert, 2015) and one that I have often thought about too. But not just any women – those in […]
The impact of menopause depression on your stress eating and weight gain.
Depression affects up to 25% of women at some time in their lives. Some of it is serious. Some of it is mild. What’s known is that it affects far more women than men and peri-menopause is a vulnerable time, especially if women have already experienced depression in their life and/or post-partum depression. I’ve been talking […]
New Research: The science of ‘Happiness’ and why you don’t feel so happy during menopause.
Two years ago in early October, I travelled to beautiful Sydney to attend a ‘Happiness’ conference. It was my first time attending this type of conference. But when the day starts with an interview with the Dalai Lama about believing in yourself and ends with a presentation on the neuro-science of happiness, then you know […]
