Can’t remember why you came into a room? Brain feels like cotton wool? Do you forget what you were talking about mid-sentance or can’t remember colleague’s names? These are all common and often alarming symptoms when we seriously worry that we’re getting early onset dementia. But there are reasons for it. Oestrogen is stimulating to the brain and helps with…

Saturday 11th March at Farmacy, London Saturday 22nd April at Soho House Beach House, Brighton “Your knowledge and sensible approach to nutrition was so inspiring! Never saying you can’t have this or that, but concentrating on the helpful food more.” A day of knowledge building, amazing plant based food, wellbeing gifts and the chance to stop and listen to your…

How many of us: …Wake up EXHAUSTED so reach for caffeine…Skip breakfast (not hungry because eaten too late the night before)…Crash mid morning (more caffeine. Snacks)…Eat lunch on the run (often a sad sandwich)…Major energy slump at 3pm (more snacks and caffeine)…Eat late (due to lots of snacking in the afternoon as not that hungry)…Stay up late (so much to…

What is the collegen / oestrogen link? Studies have shown that estrogen supports collagen production by binding to receptors in the skin known as fibroblasts. Collagen makes up roughly 70-80% of the weight of our skin! At menopause collagen can decline by up to 30% which is why we often see quite a lot of change in our skin and joints…

This is a great chart by Viva! to show plant based calcium rich foods. The reason I use this chart in my clinic so much is because not only are these foods great for calcium, they are also great sources of other essential nutrients needed for bones that are not really talked about. The beauty of Mother Nature is that…

This quote falls just before my Eat section in my book. Thank you Virginia for your sound advice. For most of us we dine well in the evening …but during the day our food choices are often rather reactionary and low in vitality/ rather beige. After our evening meal we often get a second wind. We feel focussed for the…

Hugely excited to announce that my new book The Natural Menopause Method: a nutritional guide to perimenopause and beyond, is now available to order from Bookshop.org, Amazon, WH Smith and Waterstones. The illustrated guidebook includes lots of simple shifts to help us regain balance in our modern day turbo charged world, plus a vast troubleshooting section with all the latest…

We very rarely feel true hunger these days. Instead we are often ruled by emotional hunger which is often not satisfied by food, however much we eat. The concept of ‘eating your emotions’ or as the Japanese saying goes not wanting our mouth to be ‘lonely’. Do you eat for any of these reasons?boredomrewardanxietysadnessfearlonelinesscommiseration These are classic emotional eating cues…

Let me introduce you to Laverie Valee, also known ‘Charmion’, one of the world’s first strong women as they used to be called. What a hat! I thought she was rather apt for my perimenopause protein post. Protein is the building block of the body – including the immune system, hormones and lean muscle. There are 9 ESSENTIAL amino acids…

That fat round the middle seems to appear out of nowhere and all our tired and tested ways to get back into shape we used in our 20s and 30s just don’t work anymore! The reason? Our changing hormones. The main hormones related to this sudden weight gain are oestrogen, insulin, thyroid and cortisol. Oestrogen: At peri menopause which can…