MyMT™ Education New Research: Is Grounding the Anti-inflammatory Remedy to Reduce Hot Flushes?
Whether it’s on grass, or concrete, a forest track or the beach, then explaining to your midlife female clients to kick off their shoes and ‘ground’ themselves with the earth’s surface for a minimum of 15 minutes, is an important part of your anti-inflammatory menopause symptom management coaching. This practice is known as ‘grounding’ or […]
MyMT™ Education: Blowing hot and cold – the link between body temperature and gut health in menopause.
Knowledge about how the gut-microbiome alters aspects of our immune, metabolic and nervous system health has increased 10-fold over the past decade and 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 […]
MyMT™ Education: The effect of citrus and their components on inflammation and immunity.
As your clients begin to unwind as another festive season approaches, I wonder if you are helping them to focus on ‘Citrus for Christmas’. If not, then have a read when you can. I talk a lot about anti-inflammatory components in certain foods, on my Health Practitioner Course, and it all starts with citrus fruits. […]
MyMT™ Education: Help clients banish menopause brain-fog with a burst of blueberries
Over the past few decades, the relationship between nutrition and ageing has been extensively studied in both animals and humans. It was rats that led researchers down the path to the incredible influence that berries, particularly blueberries, have on reducing the inflammation that can build up in our brain and nerves as women move through […]
MyMT™ Education: The impact of menopause depression on stress eating and weight gain.
One of my goals for those of you who are Health Practitioners, Coaches and Exercise Specialists, working with midlife women, is to encourage you to take a broader perspective on your client’s menopause symptoms, especially when it comes to understanding menopause weight gain. As such, the consideration of the interaction of the hormonal changes in […]
The ageing liver and lycopene in menopause weight loss.
Humans don’t produce carotenoids which help to reduce inflammation. When we consume lycopene in our diet, this valuable carotenoid is stored and used in high concentrations in the liver, adrenal glands, and adipose (fat) tissues where it contributes to reducing damage from oxidative stress and tissue injury.
Does alcohol increase the stiffness of blood vessels in menopausal women?
A group of young skiers and their midlife mothers enjoying the end of winter up at the skifield today, caught my attention. They were enjoying a midday wine with their lunch, no doubt well deserved. But one of them caught my attention more than the others. Whilst she was enjoying her wine, her face was […]
MyMT™ Education: Can going through menopause cause high cholesterol levels?
It was her comment in her book that piqued my interest. “For women with mildly raised cholesterol and a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, red yeast rice preparation may offer a solution” mentioned world renowned cardiologist, Dr Angela Maas. “Red yeast rice contains monocolin K, which is identical to the statin, lovastatin … however, many […]
MyMT™ Education: The effect of mindfulness and slow breathing on menopause palpitations
I’ve had your client’s menopause palpitations on my mind this week. According to new research, menopause palpitations are more common than women think. [Carpenter, Sheng, et al, 2022]. As the authors noted, ‘compared with the abundance and breadth of research on menopausal vasomotor symptoms (hot flushes) and sleep, there is a relative scarcity of research […]
MyMT™ Education: Is low Vitamin D status associated with blood vessel changes in menopausal women?
Over 60 million women (44%) in the United States are living with some form of heart disease. This is the leading cause of death for women in the United States and can affect women at any age. In 2021, heart disease was responsible for the deaths of 310,661 women— or about 1 in every 5 […]