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. […]
“Since becoming a MyMT™ Practitioner, I’ve set up a support group for women. The results have been phenomenal.” [Maxine, UK]
“I really feel that there is so much emphasis on HRT for menopause symptoms here in the UK, that women are not aware of the lifestyle evidence. And I used to be the same. Four years ago, menopause had overwhelmed me so much that just the simplest of things would make my heart palpitate. I […]
MyMT™ Education: Nutrition for Women in Menopause and Post-Menopause
Many women become reliant on various supplements and medications to help their menopause symptoms and/or weight gain, and there is nothing wrong with this of course, but how many also change aspects of their nutrition to accommodate the transition through menopause? I know this, because I was the same. Whilst seeking the quick-fix menopause supplements […]
MyMT™ Education: Lost your Libido? Let’s go looking for it then.
If your midlife clients have lost their libido in menopause, then help them find it through lifestyle change!
MyMT™ Education: Menopause Depression and Exercise – A time for change.
The day I left my Doctor’s clinic with my first ever prescription for anti-depressants, was the day I pulled out all the research I could find relating to menopause-related depression, including the role of exercise. I was confused as to why, when I have never had depression in my life, it had arrived during my […]