MyMT™ Education: 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: Is low selenium intake making menopause fatigue worse for your clients?
Apparently, there is no region of the South Island in New Zealand, that has high levels of selenium occurring naturally in soils. Russia is the same, as is China, Scandinavia and other parts of the world, including some parts of Australia. The low values around the world are related to the nature of the rocks […]
MyMT™ Education: The life-long impact of coffee and tea consumption on cardiac health in mid-life.
When did you have your first cup of filtered coffee? Do you remember? I do. It was in the early 1980’s. Someone had purchased a flash new coffee filter machine for the ICU staff room. Thinking back, maybe it was our wonderful new American Charge Nurse. She got most of us young nurses up to […]
MyMT™ Education: Supplements and Alternative Therapies for Menopause Hot Flushes – what works, what doesn’t.
The emails arrive in my in-box every week – women wanting to know if I promote supplements for menopause – [no I don’t, because I’m not a Naturopath] – or asking why they are still getting hot flushes, anxiety and insomnia, even though they are taking a variety of menopause supplements. This was me as […]
MyMT™ Education: A spotlight on gut health from peri- to post-menopause.
Every week in my newsletters I try to come up with a topic that I hope will not only interest you, but help you continue your problem-solving conversations with your midlife clients. Sometimes it’s because of a topic in my coaching group, causing me to remember the issues that I struggled with when transitioning through […]
MyMT™ Education: Foods that shift storage fat to metabolically-active ‘burning’ fat.
If there were some foods that you could help your clients incorporate into their daily food intake, that contained compounds to help them change unhealthy white fat and turn this to highly metabolic brown fat, would they eat them? For those of your clients holding onto menopause belly fat, then yes, I hope they would. […]
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 […]