MyMT™ Education: Muscle Changes in Menopause – why heavy weight training is not for everyone.
“Since my body-building competition, I’ve been trying to grow muscle, but all I’ve gained is 6kg of mainly fat. My liver had become very unhealthy”. [Lyn, Australia] What your clients do each day of their life and how they live their life affects symptoms in menopause. I’m often telling my own clients this, including former […]
MyMT™ Education: A’choo – the curious link between menopause allergies, heart health and histamine.
The allergies that arise during menopause is a topic that comes up numerous times in my private coaching group. I also see women commenting about it on the comments section of my advertisements. Hundreds of emails over the years have also alerted me to the itching, sneezing, wheezing and food and alcohol intolerances, of menopausal […]
MyMT™ Education: The Wonder of Walnuts to Decrease Cardiovascular Risk in Midlife Women
As you drive from Portsmouth to Reading in the United Kingdom, you pass one of King Charles’ organic farms and his farm shop. With a focus on Heart Health week this week, I was revisiting some of the fabulous nutrition research about the wonder of walnuts for women’s heart health, hence my memory about my […]
MyMT™ Education: Understanding the muscle-nerve-calcium connection for menopausal clients
Perhaps your client’s are being woken by leg cramps at night? Maybe they are regular exercisers and don’t understand why they aren’t recovering the way they used to? Maybe your clients assume that muscular aches and pains are a normal part of menopause? Or maybe they are taking supplements such as turmeric and glucosamine targeted […]
MyMT™ Education: 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: Can you improve your client’s menopause symptoms by changing their gut microbiome?
Knowledge about how the gut-microbiome alters aspects of our immune, metabolic and nervous system health has increased 10-fold over the past decade. Fortunately, some of this knowledge has also been situated in midlife women’s health. Whilst this increase in research has been mainly due to improved genetic research, it’s also arrived from advances in microbial […]
MyMT™ Education: Is this type of regular exercise as effective as menopause HRT?
Back in 1998, American Gerontologist, John Rowe and Academic, Robert Kahn, wrote a paper called ‘Successful Ageing’. I remember reading it one day during my studies. Sitting in the University library feeling overweight, exhausted and probably, at the time, rubbing my knees, nothing about my ageing felt ‘successful’ at all. However the paper, gave me […]
MyMT™ Education: The Effects of Fish Omega-3 Fats on Hormonal and Brain Health.
It was 1983. There I was sitting in a beautiful restaurant atop a hill high above the Mediterranean city of Cannes in the south of France. As a young nurse, I was with two other ‘Kiwi’ nurses and we were looking after an elderly English man, who needed 24 hr care. He was meeting his […]
MyMT™ Education: The Potential of Parsley to Reduce Menopause Anxiety
Many of us know that depression and anxiety are major mental health problems in all parts of the world, including for women in their menopause transition. These illnesses are associated with a number of risk factors, including oxidative stress and inflammation. Mental health challenges are so ubiquitous that even the World Health Organization (WHO) predicts […]
MyMT™ Education: 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. […]