Manage Menopause Naturally

20/02/2024

The most common Menopause Symptoms
• Vaginal dryness.
• Loss of libido.
• Hot flushes.
• Chills.
• Night sweats.
• Sleep problems.
• Mood changes.
• Weight gain and slowed metabolism.

Which ones do you suffer from? Can I help you? Are these problems affecting your daily life? Does lack of sleep stop you from having the energy to get through the day? How is your relationship with your family, friends and work colleagues? Do they understand what you are going through? I certainly understand all of the above, having gone through menopause and suffered from quite a list myself. By using natural medicine that enhances my health I have been able to come out the other side healthier and happier and able to help you do the same.

Message me if you would like my help, or for more information visit my website www.managemenopausenaturally.com to read my blogs.

20/11/2023

Death & Menopause.
Life is a journey, with its ups and downs. Last month my journey went downhill, this month I feel I’m back on an upward journey, appreciating where I have been and loving where I’m heading. This is my lesson for this moment in my life....

Life is a journey, with its ups and downs. Last month my journey went downhill, this month I feel I’m back on an upward journey, appreciating where I have been and loving where I’m heading. This is…

22/09/2023

5 Ways to Manage Your Menopause Naturally
Diet – Exercise – Spinal Health – Rest – PMA
Easy to say, easy to do? Not so much, especially on your own. Sometimes, actually often, we need a helping hand. Which diet is right for me? What exercise should I do? What is spinal health? Rest? A big ask in my household and PMA? No idea!
These are the 5 pillars of health. Diet depends upon your symptoms. In diet I include supplements, some are important for every woman approaching menopause and beyond, and others are an individual requirement. There’s no point in choosing an exercise routine if you aren’t going to stick to it, so choose an exercise that fits into your lifestyle. Don’t choose river swimming if you can’t swim! I’m a chiropractor so spinal hygiene is of upmost importance, as it's all about the nervous system, the brain – body connection, that highway of communication between the brain and the body we call the spinal cord. The nervous system controls the blood circulation, the digestive system, the hormones, it controls everything! Rest is often a problem for women as they get older. We don’t like to sleep during the day (never needed to before) and we lay half the night awake reading or having panic attacks or hot flashes. There are ways to control this that I have written about before, but don’t worry, I’m sure I’ll repeat myself as my memory is affected too! And PMA is positive mental attitude. Look around you and you will find someone who is worse off than you. Be thankful that you are better of than them even if you feel like crap. There is always something you can do to improve your situation. Meditation and doing the other 4 pillars will all help you feel better about yourself. Hang on in there and ASK FOR HELP!
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20/09/2023

How to stop menopause from happening
Menopause is a natural change in life and cannot be avoided, no matter how much you try. Just like puberty in teenagers, menopause will happen too, but with different outcomes.
It’s not a question of stopping menopause from happening, but a question of how you are going to deal with it and its possible symptoms. Not every woman suffers from the more than 34 recognised menopause symptoms. Some of us will suffer very badly from a great number of them, while others will suffer a few of them, and others none. Doesn’t this remind you of puberty? Maybe you were suffering from period pains, irregular bleeding, headaches, spots, bad temper, tiredness, whilst your friends were apparently unaffected. This is how it is with menopause.
I would start by looking at your symptoms and trying to divide them up into types of symptoms. Are you getting lots of hot flushes, itchy skin, red skin, hot temper? Then I would group these as heat symptoms. Are you getting very lethargic, putting on lots of weight, getting cellulite, bad digestion? I would begin to group these into cold symptoms. This sounds really easy, which I can assure you, it isn’t. As once we have a group of symptoms, it is then the therapist’s job to find out which element or elements of the 5-element theory is or are out of balance. You see, a heat symptom may be caused by an insufficiency, and a cold symptom may be rooted in an excess yang syndrome. How would you start to look upon your symptoms? Need help? Call me.

14/09/2023

I have mentioned before that the strength of your Earth movement is what can make or break your experiences as you go through perimenopause and menopause. As your digestive system begins to work less efficiently, excess damp can invade the other elements and their meridians and slow down the movement of energy, creating imbalances that will affect your health....

I have mentioned before that the strength of your Earth movement is what can make or break your experiences as you go through perimenopause and menopause. As your digestive system begins to work le…

21/08/2023

Figs are in Season
Our fig tree is in the middle of production and is producing some delicious figs. We have so many, we are having them for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The problem is they are full of sugar. Fig jam anyone? Don’t bother, just cut up figs and put on bread!
Figs are great in salads too, but I’ve realised that it’s too much fruit with tomatoes as well. My biggest problem is at night. Can you believe it, they gave me the same reaction as the movie night sugar highs the other week! I’d never had these reactions before menopause – it’s definitely a momentous change in one’s life and we have to adapt accordingly.
So, no figs after lunchtime for me. Anyone else had sugar highs from figs? Tomorrow I shall be making pickled figs and canning them so we can eat less but throughout the year!

01/08/2023

35 degrees and our phones are overheating! Johan had the brilliant idea of using an ice block underneath. The phones sure do appreciate that idea!

31/07/2023

Movie Night sugar highs
Last Saturday was our date night, so we went to see Oppenheimer in original language. There were 2 sittings, 17:10 and 21:00. We decided to go for the 17:10 and worked out the time we should leave to get there on time. I don’t know what happened but the alarm went off an hour late, which we didn’t realise until we were halfway there! What to do? We did a bit of shopping then decided to have a dinner out first. For the first time in a long time I had a steak (plenty of time to digest) and really fancied some black pepper, so I decided to test myself. All was good, then as we finally made it into the movie theatre, my husband started fancying something sweet. We ended up sharing a bag of Spanish equivalent to M&M’s. I think this was my downfall, as halfway through the very long movie, I started having a sugar rush. I mean a real high and couldn’t sit still. I needed to use up some energy. My legs started going up and down, and then because I couldn’t run around the theatre (it was full), I had a hot flush. Eventually it calmed down, to go the other way and I had a 10-minute snooze somewhere along the story line, and it hit me again – another sugar rush and another hot flush! And again, another 5-minute snooze. Interestingly, I don’t remember ever having these reactions to sugar during my adult life, yet this isn’t the first time since menopause. There must be a connection, and this time I am learning that sugar does not do me any favours. Yes, the hot flushes could have been the black pepper, but that is usually an itchy skin reaction which I didn’t get. Moral of the story? Stay away from sugar, try black pepper again next week!

31/07/2023

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29/07/2023

Homemade kale crisps. Picked, washed, cut and air fried within 20 minutes yummy 😋

26/07/2023

Just as menopause is a different journey for every woman, diet must be tailored to her needs.

There is no one size fits all, and no absolutely forbidden foods in TCM. Read on and then book your FREE appointment to help you.

Diet needs to be based upon your symptoms, such as hot flashes, cold sweats, loss of libido, vaginal dryness, itchy skin, bad moods and depression. You may not have any of those symptoms, so why wo…

24/07/2023

Salmon
My favourite fish. This weekend we had a party and we smoked salmon on the coals. It was delicious and I didn’t feel bad eating it as it’s so good for me. Fish tends to have a cooling property; however, salmon is warmer than most other fish. Its flavour is sweet and therefore it tonifies the Stomach and the Spleen, which form the Earth movement. Salmon tonifies the qi and the blood, therefore it is a brilliant fish to have for women going through menopause as the Earth movement is what begin to work less and cause imbalance in the hormones and the decline in menopause. Enjoy it liberally cooked a hundred different ways – more in my blog later this week.
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