MyMT™ Education: Help your menopause clients turn down high blood pressure with potassium-rich foods.
I know myself that confusion abounds about ‘what to eat’ to manage menopause symptoms and despite lecturing in nutrition for years at university level, I used to feel that confusion too! But with the menopause transition known to bring inflammatory changes to our blood vessels, it made sense to explore the nutritional and heart-health science […]
MyMT™ Education: Educating (Menopausal) Rita
I remember the movie vividly. It was around 1983 and as a young student nurse in my early 20s, my friend and I went to the theatre to view it. The theatre was entirely full of women, many of them middle-aged. Rita, (played by the fabulous Julie Walters), was a 20-something hairdresser who wanted to […]
MyMT™ Education: Is alcohol making your client’s menopause insomnia worse?
It was an interesting discussion that I had whilst on holiday last year in Switzerland. I was reminded of it recently when a discussion came up in my private coaching community about alcohol and sleep. The fondue pot was bubbling away in the middle of the table. How the Swiss got to have a national […]
MyMT™ Education: Can your clients restore their zest in menopause with zinc?
The question sits in my health screening form and states, ‘Do you feel frequently tired?’ – nearly every single response out of the thousands of screening forms that women have filled in for me over the past decade, says ‘yes’. This intrigues me and I always wonder two things: If they are vegetarian or vegan […]
“I crossed that 100km finish line feeling strong. Knowing the correct nutrition for my age and stage in life, was my biggest advantage.” [Kylie, Australia]
“Two weeks ago, I completed my first 100-kilometer trail run and I felt great!” That was the start of Kylie’s email to me. I knew that she had been training for an ultra-distance event after we exchanged emails about her nutrition requirements for her 50 km running during the time that she has been with […]
MyMT™ Education: What women in menopause can learn from London bus conductors.
Tottenham Court Road is busy as London’s iconic red double-decker buses travel up and down. These buses are modern and very different from the old buses that frequented London’s inner roads in the 1950’s. I wonder what London’s pioneering female bus driver, Jill Viner, would think of them, after being the first woman to drive […]
MyMT™ Education: Telomeres, exercise, menopause and the anti-ageing benefits of betaine.
During the past few decades, numerous ageing and health studies have emerged discussing the link between lifestyle factors, inflammation and telomere dysfunction. The tiny ‘hard-hat’s on the ends of human DNA, that control how rapidly we age. Telomere’s become shorter with age and age-related diseases. We all know that much attention is given to midlife […]
MyMT™ Education: Your client’s changing lymphatic system during menopause.
I could see her struggling to walk along the corridor as I disembarked the plane on the long-haul flight between the United Kingdom and New Zealand recently. She was a woman in her early to late 50s and noticing her discomfort, and always with menopause and changes to the lymphatic system on my mind, I […]
MyMT™ Education: Apples – a core consideration for your midlife client’s gut and liver health.
Will an apple a day keep the Doctor away for women during their menopause transition? If we follow the research on the effect of a whole apple (including the skin), on liver health and the gut microbiome, then yes, women who eat an apple a day, may well be improving their symptoms as they move […]
MyMT™ Education: Understanding Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
I’ve just returned from presenting at the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine conference in the UK. Sitting in on a session by Dr Darota Komar, who is a specialist in Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, was a reminder about how harmful these can be to the functioning of the HPA-Thyroid Axis. Her presentation was a fascinating insight […]