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 […]

Does daily walking reduce menopause-related depression in the Hadza women of Tanzania?

I talked about the Hadza women of Tanzania at my pIntensive Workshop for some of my Melbourne ladies last weekend. They were fascinated as I shared the investigative studies into the lives of Hadza women in Tanzania and their menstrual cycles, by Biological Anthropologist, Dr Katherine Fitzpatrick from the UK. Her studies were extraordinary. How […]

Can you improve your menopause symptoms by changing your gut microbiome?

Knowledge about how the gut-microbiome alters aspects of our immune, metabolic and nervous system health has increased 10-fold over the past decade. Fortunately for all of us, some of this knowledge has also been situated in midlife women’s health.  Whilst this increase in research has been mainly due to improved genetic research, it’s also arrived […]

Walk away menopausal anxiety, stress and depression.

When both Lyndie and Susi (in the photos above) came into my menopause transformation programmes, they were hardly walking anywhere. However, they both experienced fatigue, lack of motivation and for Lyndie, her breast cancer treatments left her exhausted. They were also confused about what type of exercise was best for them. But as they moved […]

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 […]