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5 Essential Reasons Lifestyle is important for your Menopausal Health
A healthy lifestyle is important across all stages of life, but when a woman reaches the menopause years, it couldn’t be more important to start making lifestyle changes. This is the time when we begin to notice the impact that some of our choices have on our symptoms, and ultimately, how we feel. It’s a vicious cycle, as some symptoms make it really difficult to make changes, but the changes need to be made to see a decrease in symptoms. Add to this the confusion commonly felt as all the physical and emotional symptoms seemingly happen all at once. Most of the time, women don’t know where to begin. …
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Why Joyful Movement is good for your menopause
Joyful movement emphasises physical activity that brings pleasure and satisfaction when participating in it. It is a way to move the body that is free from the constraints of traditional exercise routines and instead focuses on finding activities that bring joy and happiness when performing them. This approach to movement is gaining popularity as more and more people realise the benefits of incorporating joyful movement into their daily lives. Joyful movement in menopause can bring more mindfulness into movement, by helping us to slow down, and increase connections to self and the environment around us. The Benefits of Joyful Movement There are many benefits to incorporating joyful movement into…
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Does exercise improve our gut microbiome, and what does it mean for menopause?
Our gut microbiome is made up of trillions of microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses and fungi. The majority of our gut bacteria live in the large intestine, and a person’s gut microbiome will be as individual to them as their fingerprint. There is a huge amount of variability and diversity of bacteria which is impacted by both internal and external factors. The stability of our microbiome relies on the balance between the internal and external factors that influence it. Our microbiome plays a role in our health on many levels and can be positively or negatively affected by illnesses, antibiotics, diet, stress, sleep and hormonal changes that occur across our lifespan,…
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Mood, Cognition and Brain Fog in Menopause – Are you are risk of Dementia?
One of the biggest concerns that women have as they enter their perimenopausal years is that the symptoms of brain fog are actually the beginnings of dementia. Every year, the month of October is World Menopause Month, and October 18 is World Menopause Day (WMD). The International Menopause Society marked the theme of WMD to be Brain Fog in Menopause in 2022. Keep reading to learn more about brain fog, mood, cognition and the risk of dementia in menopause. What are Cognition and Brain Fog? Cognition is how we were feeling before the hormonal changes of perimenopause kicked in – we were able to focus and think clearly,…
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How to exercise in menopause to protect your long term health
If you are a menopausal woman who has continued with your past exercise routine to lose the menopausal belly, you may be finding that how you exercised before menopause is not working for you now. As our oestrogen levels decline over time, exercise in menopause must change, as our physiology and metabolism changes at midlife. The type and timing of exercise in menopause is important in this lifestage, to work with our hormone fluctuations, not against them. Metabolism, hormonal changes and exercise in menopause Metabolic changes and how our body uses and stores glucose and fat is largely driven by the hormonal changes that occur in menopause. Couple…
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What is Joyful Movement and Why is it important in Menopause?
Many women in the perimenopause phase start to experience challenges in their experience, in particular in relation to weight changes. In the past they have dieted and exercised in a way to “lose kilos”, only to find that now, that no longer gives the wanted results. Joyful movement is a way of moving your body for pleasure, rather than for a specific outcome. The menopause years present many challenges for women, but is also a time to feel freedom from the gruelling physical activity of the past, and put our self care first by choosing pleasure over external outcomes. What is Joyful Movement? Firstly, let’s address what joyful movement…
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How to reduce Inflammation during Menopause
Believe it or not, one of the main drivers responsible for our menopause symptoms is inflammation, including weight gain, hot flushes, night sweats, aching joints and brain fog. It is usually a type of inflammation that without the symptoms of menopause, you wouldn’t even know it’s happening. This article is going to look at inflammation in more detail, its causes and consequences in menopause and health long term, and what you can do to manage both menopause symptoms and the inflammation contributing to them. What is inflammation? Inflammation is something that we have all experienced from time to time – whether it be an injury or illness,…
