Have you felt this before? When you eat breakfast, the rest of your day seems to fall into place. When you set an intention to nourish yourself early then it’s easier to eat a good lunch and dinner and find the energy to do your best work. This is a common experience for women I […]
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Sleep escapes me. Now I know what it feels like to go to bed tired but wired, like many thousands of other women who are trying to balance their hormones in menopause. It is all too easy to join the chemist queue for medication – 60 million prescriptions were written in 2010 for sleeping pills
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We often equate huffing and puffing with exercising, loosing weight and getting fit. Well, it turns out that with mouth breathing all we are doing is driving up cortisol and insulin levels, suppressing leptin – the hormone that says I am full and increasing ghrelin our “hunger hormone”. This is why so many women fail
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What happens when we get stressed or anxious? Our breathing becomes quick, shallow, and irregular. Or we hold our breath and then stop the flow of energy through our heart-lung meridian channel according to Chinese medicine. Have you ever caught yourself exhaling loudly after a scare whilst driving or a heated argument with your partner?
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Ayurvedic body types experience fatigue differently. Vata’s or those with a thin, light frame tire easily and are more prone to anxiety and nervousness. Vata types often wake between 2 – 6am (Vata time in the 24 hour circadian cycle) with their mind racing. Dysregulated cortisol and melatonin make fatigue worse so that Vata’s often experience
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Did your know running increases your cortisol level which might not be a good thing moving into menopause? Here are a few exercise tips… 1. Move in ways that support your body type and your hormones from day to day depending on your energy level and mood: dance, yoga, pilates, walk, cross train, swim, parkour,
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I come from a generation of over- striving, over-driving, and over- achieving women, and my beautiful mother was one of those women. So I grew up with the idea that if I was not productive or on task most of the time, something was wrong with me. To be constantly in motion, stillness was scary. Can you
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What is the biggest issue you struggle with every day? Is it fatigue and low energy? Research shows 2/3 of women heading into menopause have an energy crisis every day. Fatigue is the body’s way of saying you need to rest and restore and you need to do more of it at different stages throughout menopause
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Though the jury is out about the benefits of flax for hot flushes, many of my clients have found that including 2 tablespoons 1-2 x per day of fresh ground flaxseeds to their breakfast/smoothie combined with lifestyle changes can make their hot flushes more manageable or disappear. Flaxseeds plus lentils, beans and their cute sprouted
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Sick of the same foods weighing your down? Cleanse your cupboards with a menopause pantry makeover. Yep, out with the old use-by-dates and white coloured carbs and in with the new fresh versions of foods that will help you shed belly fat and rock your hormones. Have these options on hand to make quick and easy
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