Helen Ritchie
Registered Nutritional Therapist
The benefits of cold water swimming at menopause
I absolutely love cold water swimming and have just celebrated my 3rd year anniversary of year-round swimming at Bray Lake. This weekly habit is the way I reset my nervous system after a busy week of work, plus I love being outside in nature especially when swimming into the rising sun. There are so many […]
Why you should not just rely on HRT to disappear your menopause symptoms
Media coverage of the menopause and the focus on HRT as a magic solution for your symptoms completely over-simplifies the complexity of our bodies and how our hormones work. I’m fed up of hearing about how menopause symptoms are caused by hormone deficiencies and therefore the only way to resolve them is to take re-placement […]
How to exercise to reverse or prevent osteoporosis
You may have heard that doing weight-bearing exercise is important for pre-venting and indeed reversing osteoporosis. But how much do you need to do and what exactly do you need to be doing? An 8-month clinical study aptly named the LIFTMOR trial demonstrated that it is possible to increase bone mineral density through lifting heavy […]
The New Weight Loss Injections – Magic Pill or Potential Ill?
With so much media hype around the new weight loss injections like Wegovy (semaglutide) and Mounjaro (tirzepatide), and as I see more and more people in my diabetes prevention groups starting to take them, I thought it was time to look in more detail at how they work and whether they really are a miracle […]