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.
The Goodness of Grains During Menopause and Beyond.
“After this past year of avoiding whole-grains completely based on the diet I was on, I now realise that this was the wrong thing to do now that I’m in my 50’s. I’ve lost 5 lbs and I’m feeling amazing. I have so much more energy.” [Kirsten, USA] The ‘no-grains, no-carbs’ brigade got me for […]
What Women Living in ‘Blue Zones’ Can Teach Us About Menopause and Healthy Ageing
Dr. Wendy Sweet, founder of My Menopause Transformation (MyMT™), delves into the lifestyle habits of women in Blue Zones…
Re-address your stress and sleep to help your changing heart health during Menopause.
“Stressors that are relevant to the life-experiences of mid-life women (age 40 – 65 yrs) include job stress, caregiving, marital quality and discrimination. The articles we reviewed support the hypothesis that life stress and stressful events that occur in mid-life can impact women’s later-life risk for Cardiovascular (CVD) events.” (Stewart, Kathawalla et al, 2018, p.13). […]
Your ageing arteries during menopause and the magic of magnesium.
Women’s health and ageing research is replete with cardiovascular disease studies and there’s a reason for this. The declining health of our mother’s generation have paved the way for this type of research in older women. For many women, menopause is the start of their changing heart health … but unlike our mother’s generation, researchers […]
MyMT™ Education: Why your overweight menopausal clients may not need this popular tropical oil.
“Growing up in Fiji, we never cooked with coconut oil” mentioned Losena in an email to me. After reading new evidence noting how we need to be cautious about all the marketing hype with coconut oil, I wanted to hear from her. After all, the marketing is based on the experience of Pacific Islanders using […]
Is your changing gut health during menopause contributing to higher blood pressure?
This week saw me visit a progressive workplace here in New Zealand, which put menopause and lifestyle solutions on the wellness agenda. The room was full of women and men, young and old. I’m sure that many of them were surprised as I began to talk about both gut health and heart health. But I […]
Give your ageing heart the nutrients it needs for improving your energy in menopause.
Her arms lifted high in the air and the smile on her face, as she reached the top of this hiking trail in BC, Canada, is a testament to what Donna has achieved over the past few months. The attention she has paid towards restoring her sleep, improving her cardiac health and fitness as well […]
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, […]
