Helen Ritchie
Registered Nutritional Therapist
Did I mention that I was one of the 9% of women who have disciplinary action taken against them?
I posted recently about why I made the move from marketing director to menopause nutritionist. But I forgot to mention one key fact - that 6 years ago I was fired from my corporate job and be-came one of the 9% of women that have disciplinary action taken against them. A further 49% women consider […]
Why you don’t need to panic if you can’t [or don’t want to] take HRT
With the current [very welcome] media discussions about menopause you would be forgiven for thinking that there was only 1 solution to managing symptoms and that is by taking HRT. This annoys me for so many reasons!? 1. It treats menopause as a medical problem that needs to be solved. 2. It considers menopause as […]
Why I made the move from Marketing Director to Menopause Nutritionist
6 years ago, with a history of breast cancer I was one of those women for whom HRT wasn’t an option and although I didn’t realise it at the time I am now hugely grateful that it gave me the momentum to investigate natural alternatives and eventually motivated me to completely retrain and switched careers […]
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 […]