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Is stress making your menopause symptoms worse?

Stress can make every single menopausal symptom worse: hot flushes, night sweats, brain fog, anxiety, mood swings, poor sleep and weight gain. Why? BECAUSE hormones work together like an orchestra. When your stress hormone cortisol is out of balance, it has a knock-on effect on all your hormones, including oestrogen. In menopause, oestrogen production moves […]

Find out what’s really causing your menopause symptoms….. test don’t guess!

If you really want to know what’s going on with your hormones I highly recommend doing a DUTCH test. That is a Dried Urine Test of Complete Hormones (DUTCH), one of the most comprehensive hormone tests available and covers much more than just your levels of oestrogen and progesterone. It also includes testosterone, cortisol (stress), […]

Want to find out what your hormones are really doing?

So did I. So rather than relying on GP blood tests I did a DUTCH test [Dried Urine Testing of Complete Hormones]. This is one of the most comprehensive hormone tests available and looks at far more than just blood levels of oestrogen and progesterone. Testing hormones in blood doesn’t really give you the full […]

Are you making these 3 mistakes in trying to lose weight in menopause?

Are you making these 3 mistakes in trying to lose weight in menopause? “My clothes don’t fit me like they used to. It’s making me feel fat, old and frumpy.” This is one of the most common complaints about menopause that I hear from my clients on an almost daily basis. And with so much […]

Helen Ritchie

Windsor, UK

Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner

BA (Hons), DipION, mBANT, rCNHC

E: helen@ritchnutrition.com

M: 07884 117768

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Helen Ritchie

Clinical Nutritional Therapist