MyMT™ Education: 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. I became interested in it when I went into menopause. Not because of its aesthetic value, but because it reminded me of the small mountain village in Switzerland, which is home to a source of glacial water […]
MyMT™ Education: Gut Health and Menopause Gluten Sensitivity – unpacking your client’s fatigue.
Menopause Gluten Sensitivity & Fatigue Fatigue management has been the topic of my posts this week in my private coaching group for Health and Exercise Practitioners who are on one of my courses. It’s so great to read the discussions in this group and to help Practitioners understand many of the lifestyle solutions that can […]
MyMT™ Education: Lifestyle evidence to improve menopause anxiety and cognition.
‘Despite the overwhelming prevalence of anxiety in modern society, medications often fail to achieve complete symptom resolution. We highlight the roles of the microbiome and inflammation as influencers of anxiety, and discuss the evidence base for specific nutritional interventions.’ [Norwitz and Naidoo, 2021] Most of us know the feelings of anxiety don’t we? The elevated […]
MyMT™ Education: Women’s Healthy Ageing During Menopause – Discover my top-4 strategies
The Women’s Healthy Ageing Project (WHAP) is a longitudinal study of over 400 Australian-born women, epidemiologically randomly sampled in 1990. In the early 1990’s, researcher Professor Szoeke, became very dis-satisfied with the lack of clinical research on mid-life women. Up until then, most of the research connecting lifestyle behaviors and choices with diseases of ageing, […]
MyMT™ Education: Menopause Weight Loss, Cardiometabolic Health and Exercise
The Evolution of Fitness and Women’s Weight Loss Goals “I hired a Personal Trainer online for the first time during the pandemic. I was really enjoying the sessions, but I have to admit, I didn’t lose any weight whatsoever – in fact my clothes are now tighter and I feel swollen and bloated. He has […]
MyMT™ Education: The role of RYE in cardiac health during menopause.
“After this past year of avoiding whole-grains completely based on the diet I was on, I now realise that this was the wrong thing to do now that I’m in my 50’s. I’ve lost 5 lbs & I’m feeling amazing. I have so much more energy.” [Kirsten, USA] Most women joining me on the MyMT™ programmes […]
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 […]