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Why antidepressants are not the answer to depression in menopause + how to fix

If going through menopause wasn’t bad enough! When depression hits you as well, you feel like it’s game over! I’ve suffered with depression on and off throughout my life. Sometimes to the point where I felt like life just wasn’t worth living. But suffering depression during menopause felt different from previous times. The […]

Are you waking up in the night soaking wet?

Night sweats really are a nightmare. You’re waking up feeling like a hot mess. You could wring out your pyjamas…. Literally! ?? It’s not only uncomfortable and creating a mountain of extra washing, but the sleep disruption is leaving you exhausted and unable to function properly at work. To make matters worse men’s higher metabolic […]

Is HRT the only solution?

I wanted to have a rant about the over-medicalisation of menopause and the media focus on HRT. Whilst I welcome the increased awareness of menopause I don’t think it’s particularly helpful to position HRT as THE solution to distressing menopausal symptoms. As if it’s a magic bullet solution - which it isn’t! There’s hardly any […]

A staggering 78% women don’t immediately recognise their menopausal symptoms!

Unbelievable isn’t it? ?? But true. And I was one of them. Most of us [women] have heard of hot flushes and night sweats. But it’s brain fog that can have the most devastating effect on your life and career. 6 years ago, when severe brain fog struck, leaving me unable to function at work, […]

Helen Ritchie

Windsor, UK

Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner

BA (Hons), DipION, mBANT, CNHC

E: helen@ritchnutrition.com

M: 07884 117768

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Helen Ritchie

Clinical Nutritional Therapist