Waking at 2am? The science of your menopause insomnia …. and why not sleeping may change your immune health

What do you think about when you are lying awake at 2am, or 3am or 4am? Do you plan your day ahead or are you just despairing because night after night you aren’t sleeping and you can feel your energy being sucked out of you? You know that the day ahead is another busy one […]

New Research: Menopause weight gain, oestrogen storage in fat cells and changing cardiovascular health.

Jeans & Belly Fat

‘Menopause is usually a cause of many concerns’, mentions the 2017 report on obesity in menopause (Kozakowski et al, 2017), ‘and one of the most important, is the fear of weight gain’.  Overweight and obesity, according to the definition of the World Health Organization (WHO) are considered as an abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that […]

MyMT™ Education: 5 Reasons for Your Client’s Weight Gain in Menopause and Post Menopause.

Poor sleep, changing liver health, muscle tone and size changes – all of these factors impact a woman’s sleep, thyroid and blood sugar hormones as well as their liver health, contributing to weight gain in menopause. It’s why, the menopause transition, which is the biological gateway to a woman’s ageing, leaves them vulnerable to other […]

Why your liver matters more than you think for your peri-menopause fatigue.

It took me a long time to turn my back on the popular Keto diet and the high intensity exercise mantra that pervades the fitness and dieting industries today. There’s a few women on my programme who have now learnt to do this as well, especially those who have moved into their post-menopause years.  After […]

5 Reasons for your Weight Gain in Menopause and Post Menopause.

Weight issues in Menopause

“If your waist is ‘thickening’, your body-shape is changing and you are going into or through menopause, let me explain why!” [Dr Wendy Sweet, (PhD) Women’s Healthy Ageing Researcher] I invite you to watch my Science of Weight Gain in Menopause video if you would like a summary or if you prefer reading in a […]

New Research: Will increasing your protein intake reduce menopause belly-fat?

Sex, Myths and Menopause – at last this documentary was shown on New Zealand television. It was made over a year ago now by UK Journalist Davina McCall. Like many of us, Davina McCall was confused about what she was experiencing. Turning 44, she didn’t realise she was in peri-menopause and like millions of women, […]

The science behind your changing shape in menopause.

Not all women put on weight in menopause – in fact, some women need to gain weight as they are too thin, but if you are putting on belly fat and your diaphragmatic fat is increasing, as you reach your early to mid 50’s, then I have some questions for you:       Can you […]

The growing movement of slow-jogging and why it’s good for you in menopause – but you must restore your joints first.

We all know that a little exercise or activity makes a big difference to how we feel but in a world where there is so much choice around the type of exercise that is promoted to mid-life women, I believe that simple aerobic exercise is being forgotten. I know myself that fitness messages have become […]

The powerful connection between your sleep and weight management in menopause.

Sleep & Menopause Weight Gain

If you added up all the nights in the week that you lie awake between 2-4am, how many would that be? Is it 5 or more? I’m asking you this, because when I’ve presented my Masterclass on Menopause seminars over the years, this is the question that women groan at the most. And asking that […]