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“I couldn’t retain information – that’s not helpful when you’re trying to...
“I first joined MyMT in Spring 2021 when by age, I should have been post-menopausal, but because of a combination of a polyp and the HRT I was on, I was still getting regular bleeds.By then I had been...
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MyMT™ Kitchen: Improve your Blood Pressure with this Kumara (Sweet Potato) Mash
The health needs of women during their menopause and post-menopause years cannot be underestimated. For many of you, whether you are on Menopause HRT or not, or other medications, one of the main...
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MyMT™ Education New Research: Is Grounding the Anti-inflammatory Remedy to...
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...
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The Goodness of Grains for your Heart Health in 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 and I’m feeling...
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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...
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New Research: Menopause weight gain, oestrogen storage in fat cells and...
‘Menopause is usually a cause of many concerns’, mentions the 2017 report on obesity in menopause (Kozakowski et al, 2017), ‘and one of the most important, is the fear of weight gain’. Overweight and...
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The MyMT™ KITCHEN: Your Sensational Gut-friendly Salade Nicoise
Working as a young nurse in the south of France in Cannes many, many years ago now, I came across my first Salade Niçoise. I didn’t know that this salad, with it’s high protein intake, originates in...
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Your sore joints during and after menopause.
Oestrogen has a role to play in cell turn-over and healing of our joints. So, what happens as we move through menopause, when we don’t produce as much oestrogen? It’s not often that a week goes by...
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Waking at 2am? The science of your menopause insomnia …. and why not sleeping...
What do you think about when you are lying awake at 2am, or 3am or 4am? Do you plan your day ahead or are you just despairing because night after night you aren’t sleeping and you can feel your energy...
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MyMT™ Education: Lost your Libido? Let’s go looking for it then.
There’s never a topic that get’s so many of the MyMT women more engaged than libido! It seems that as soon as one woman mentions it in my private coaching group, a flood of comments pour in. I’m not...
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When these blood markers are low, fatigue, dizziness and hot flushes become...
Almost a decade ago in my early 50s, just as I was emerging from peri-menopause and into menopause – the year beyond, when periods had ended, even the thought of being able to ski and hike in the...
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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...
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The cause of your morning wake-up heat wave in menopause: The Cortisol...
“Do you know why, when I immediately wake-up, I get a heat surge through my body?” she asked.The question took me back in time. A few years ago, when in my early 50s, I experienced the same...
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MyMT™ Kitchen: Boost your Blood Vessels with this Warm Beetroot, Pumpkin,...
In 2012, I was teaching nutritional papers at a university in New Zealand and came across a study that was perfect for my lectures on lifestyle behaviour change at the time. This week, whilst looking...
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“Since becoming a MyMT™ Practitioner, I’ve set up a support group for women....
“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...
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New Research: Do Clinicians and Exercise and Health Professionals need to...
‘Adopting healthy behaviors implies a multitude of challenges for individuals and unfortunately, medical advice and prescriptions do not guarantee lifestyle changes,’ mentions new research out of...
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The MyMT™ KITCHEN: My Blood Orange Smoothie is bursting with vital Vitamin C.
Oranges, especially blood oranges, are a rich source of Vitamin C. The many phyto-nutrients they provide are an additional benefit for those of you experiencing muscle aches and pains, especially...
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MyMT™ PODCAST: Menopause and Exercise hosted by ZEST Wellness.
What describes you – are you lean and mean and usually a killer on the gym floor and starting to struggle? Or do you have a patchier relationship with exercise, have put on a few kilos and are just...
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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...
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Does your ageing, tired thyroid need the magic of these nutrients?
The new study came out of beautiful Nepal – not a country that I would associate with changing thyroid function in some of the population, but apparently so. The study’s purpose was to evaluate...
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