MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: The effect of water on gut health (and menopause symptoms) in midlife.
When you walk around the lake-front of the small town where I live, there is a natural spring which draws water from an aquifer high up in the mountains. This water is ‘hard’ water. Studies have shown that consuming “hard” drinking water, which has higher levels of calcium and magnesium, is associated with lower arterial […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: New Research on Fat and Fibrosis (Scar Tissue) in Overweight and Obese Midlife Women
‘In the state of overweight and obesity, fat cells become dysfunctional and increased inflammation causes them to become fibrotic.’ [Zhang, Lu et al., 2024] It all makes so much sense to me now. With a relatively new article arriving in my inbox backing up what I was feeling at the time – the increased fat […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: Can gut health cause high blood pressure during menopause?
The complexity of women’s lives never ceases to amaze me. And I don’t just mean with their ‘busyness,’ but also their health. By the time many women find MyMT™ they have tried everything, but they also are in a worse state with health changes, especially joint, gut and heart health changes. Abdominal distension is a […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: Nutrition for Women in Menopause and Post-Menopause
Never before, has there been so much focus on different aspects of nutrition for women in their menopause transition, has there? After talking to Health Practitioners on my global zoom calls this week, I hear their concerns – women thinking that they have to go on Keto diets, high protein diets, fasting regimes, supplement regimes […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: Does daily stress cause liver problems for women in menopause?
The liver is a curious organ – especially as women transition menopause. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the expression “the liver stores the soul and controls the deliberations” indicates that the liver plays an important role in the process of regulating emotion. This is because the liver stores blood and blood stores the soul. Qi […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: Understanding the role of inflammation in peri- to post-menopause weight gain
It was quite a few years ago now that I heard an interview on New Zealand’s national radio about the rapid rise of obesity in the population. At the time I was lecturing in university level nutrition and health promotion and my ears were atuned to anything about overweight and obesity in the population. I […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: Discover the 7 Dimensions of Health for Menopause
When I was lecturing in health and wellbeing at Waikato University many years ago, I used to show students the diagram below, which depicts the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) dimensions of health and the known consequences. Like many women I’ve come across in my own coaching of the MyMT™ programmes, never once did I think […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: A New Nutritional Approach to Menopause Weight Loss
It’s amazing to think that Type 2 diabetes and obesity was rare in our parent’s generation. But today, in many western countries, it is the fasting growing chronic condition – especially in women aged 50 – 59 years. In Australia alone, 280 Australians develop diabetes every day (Diabetes Australia). That’s one person every 5 minutes. […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: The seasons are changing and so are your client’s menopause symptoms.
“Sleep touches on nearly every aspect of our physiology and psychology, of our interaction with the world and with others.” William Dement (2000), Sleep Research Pioneer. Over 20,000 students took William Dement’s course on ‘Sleep and Dreams’ throughout his tenure at Stanford University. He created and pioneered the fields of sleep research, sleep medicine and […]
MyMT™ Education for Practitioners: Help Midlife Clients Reverse Metabolic Syndrome and Insulin Resistance in Menopause
What is Metabolic Syndrome (MetS)? I remember the conference in New York distinctly. I remember the conference in New York distinctly. It was 1995, the year my daughter was born. It was my first time away from her. However, attending the conference was an opportunity that I didn’t want to miss. I was presenting at […]