Maybe you have Menopause! (Or Perimenopause:Symptoms include forgetting why you walked into a room, interspersed with bouts of hot flashes and temper flares. Side effects include dark thick chin hairs that appear out of nowhere, blowing up at the kids over dumb stuff, being awake from 2:30-5:30 AM and a rounding belly.
Did you know that your diet is one of the major factors in hormone balance?! If you’re a perimenopausal woman, this should be music to your ears! It’s something you can control. An opportunity to get rid of (or at least greatly reduce) the hot flashes and the night sweats. The opportunity to start addressing those brain changes and start…
Did you get on the scale this morning and say, “Oh crap! I gained another pound!”? All this Covid19 staying at home is wreaking so much havoc on us all. It doesn’t matter WHO you are, it’s affecting everyone. From the mid-life woman struggling with home-schooling kids to the kids themselves, we ALL need some help. (And let’s not forget…
I grew up “fat.” and was SO convinced I was, that I spent most of the time I was in college dieting and running; getting down to 103 lbs. on my 5’4” body and STILL thinking I was fat!
If you start with these 5 simple rules today, I can guarantee you’ll be healthier tomorrow. Now I know, I’m not supposed to make guarantees about your health. But here’s the thing: when you start fueling your body better, you’ll feel better and it will improve your health to some degree (though I can’t predict how much.) A quick analogy:…
If you’re like many of the folks in my circle, you’re a business owner or you have a side-hustle that you want to become your full-time business. Today I’m going to address the parallels between your health and running your business. My hope is that seeing the parallels here will help you begin to take better control of your health.…
I get it! 380,000 have died in the U.S. of Covid19. It’s horrendous and frightening. What if it was 680,000? Would that make you even MORE scared? Here’s the thing: there’s a PREVENTABLE disease that kills 680,000 Americans. . .EVERY. . . SINGLE. . .YEAR! And has for many years. Why are we not up in arms about that? Let’s…
It was 4 am and I was lying awake . . .AGAIN! But this time it was different. For weeks before it was almost routine; 2:30 to nearly 6:00 am lying awake, agitated and profusely sweating. Knowing how exhausted I’d be all day because I couldn’t sleep. . .Every. . . single. . . night. But all that had ended…
“…One particular nutrient or food isn’t going to help you or hurt you that much.” Is usually the response they get from me.
Weight gain during Peri-menopause is almost universal. Today I talk about the science behind the ketogenic diet and its effect on menopausal symptoms.