New Research: Does daily stress affect your client’s menopause symptoms?

If you were to get your clients to pull out a blank piece of paper and list all the factors that drain their energy and/or stress them out over a day or a week, I wonder what would be on that list? From everything which might be over-whelmingthem in their workplace, to their home environment […]

Re-address your stress and sleep to help your changing heart health during Menopause.

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“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). […]

How too much stress impacts your menopause symptoms and hormone health.

Why have women become so busy and stressed, that this is now affecting their hormonal balance? The concept of the Stress Adaptation Response was first conceptualised in the 1950s by Psychologist, Dr Hans Selye. Since his early research and descriptions of the ‘General Adaptation Syndrome’ (G.A.S.), this syndrome has been seen as a three-stage process […]

Discover the stress-liver-menopause inflammation connection!

“It’s the belly-fat that disturbs me. I can’t get into my jeans that I could get into a year ago” was her cry for help. “For years I was playing competitive sport but I’ve stopped that now but still try to run. I also have 2-3 wines at night, but I don’t think this affects […]

“It’s funny what you said about why I have to eat more food because I do weight training. I now understand why my energy was low!” [Julie, NZ]

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When I founded the New Zealand personal training industry in the early 1990’s, I never imagined that I would, one day, be guiding some of New Zealand’s leading Personal Trainers through menopause. Nor did I ever imagine that I would be advising exercise professionals to reduce their exercise and for those who are leaner and […]

Do you need to REST over the New Year? Your changing brain in menopause might thank you for it.

I wonder how you are using your New Year break? (that’s if you get one!). Are you resting from the incredibly stressful year that you’ve just experienced, or are you still rushing around and/or because you are working from home, you are still on your computer or taking your Zoom meetings in between everything else you […]

How accumulative stress affects your sleep, anxiety, hot flushes and sore joints in menopause.

Life was already pretty overwhelming and exhausting for women going into menopause. Then along came the pandemic and for Teachers, such as Martina in Ireland, life became a lot more complex. It’s no surprise that a new report indicates that women bear the brunt of the additional stress.  ‘Throughout all stages of the pandemic crisis, […]

Understanding the stress-cortisol – menopause symptom connection.

“Are you writing a novel?” he enquired standing next to my table at the cafe. An elderly man in his 70’s whom I hadn’t met before. He had noticed my concentration and hands flying across the keyboard. I looked up. “No, but I used to in the past” I mentioned. “A few years ago I was […]

Re-address your stress by increasing beautiful B-vitamins and you’ll be helping to lose your menopause belly-fat too.

If you were to walk into my kitchen right now, you would see the steam rising out of my simmering pot of rice. You would also smell it’s nutty smell. For dinner tonight I’m going to mix some pesto through it and serve it with spinach wilted in cold-pressed olive oil (great for our joints) […]