The Goodness of Grains for your Heart Health in Menopause
âAfter 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. Iâve lost 5 lbs and Iâm feeling amazing. I have so much more energy.â [Kirsten, USA] The âno-grains, no-carbsâ brigade got me for […]
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 […]
A spotlight on your changing gut health from peri- to post-menopause.
Every week in my newsletters I try to come up with a topic that I hope will interest you. Sometimes it’s because of a conversation in my coaching group from other women who are just like you, or sometimes I’m reminded of something that I had no idea was anything to do with our menopause […]
Putting menopause symptoms in ageing science and why ‘inflammaging’ matters.
Women dying at the end of World War 2 in New Zealand, didn’t have to worry too much about menopause affecting how they were ageing did they? As you can see from the Statistics New Zealand graph below, the average age of death was under 70 years old. Interestingly, it was heart disease (which causes […]
“I was struggling with the physical work on the farm and my joints were slowing me down.” [Barbara, NZ]
“I, along with my husband are sheep farmers in the South Island of New Zealand. Over the last few years, I had been starting to struggle with the physical work that is required at times. I just put this down to getting older and perhaps the start of arthritis in my joints. Little did I […]
What is Menopause? The evolutionary significance of menopause.
With the possible exception of pilot whales, no mammals studied to date are known to commonly exhibit the cessation of their reproductive capacity as they get older. Except of course, for human females. I didn’t know that. Did you? It wasn’t until I read an intriguing article that I found out – ‘The evolutionary origin […]
Fatigue, menopause and your ageing gallbladder: Even if you don’t have one, focus on these foods.
We never gave their nutrition, nor menopause, a thought. It was the 1980s and as a young nurse, I was working on the surgical ward before moving to the ICU. The four-bed rooms were full of middle-aged women waiting for a cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal). âFair, Fat and Fiftyâ was the term that the Consultant […]
The tangled threesome – Circadian rhythm, body temperature and menopause hot flushes.
Whilst the South Island of New Zealand has just experienced the first Polar blast for the winter, the weather-man on the BBC tells me that those of you on the opposite side of the world are going to experience your first heat-wave of the summer … and it’s only June. We’re all being told that […]
“Nobody was understanding the connection between all of our symptoms, including insomnia and weight gain.”
The conversations in my private coaching group are amazing. Women from around the world learning that, for years, our menopause symptoms have been looked at in isolation, rather than from a ‘total body’ approach. “This makes so much sense” is the typical astonishing cry that I read in the group. I totally understand how they […]
