Helen Ritchie
Clinical Nutritional Therapist
Why you should embrace your [menopause] moody bitch!
Mood swings are a classic menopausal symptom and caused by fluctuating hormone levels as your body tries to cope with peaks in oestrogen & dips in progesterone. They’re a scaled-up version of premenstrual syndrome [PMS]. So if you find yourself more easily triggered [especially at this time of year]and one moment deliriously happy to the […]
Why I love cold water swimming
Today is the 6th anniversary of my youngest sister Rachel’s suicide and I thought it appropriate to share some of the benefits of cold water swimming and why I do it. Firstly because it most definitely improves your mental wellbeing. A study has shown it can lead to an ‘immediate improvement in mood following each […]
How we tackle brain fog inside The Menopause Method
Meet Janine, whose brain fog left her feeling like a broken person when we first met, and can now look forward to the rest of her life Janine was initially skeptical that working on nutrition and lifestyle could help her feel better, but she wanted to avoid taking replacement hor-mones so took the plunge. So […]
Are your teeth affecting your brain fog?
Research shows that gum disease can affect your entire body not just your mouth. As Pete Williams [a pioneer in this area] says: “Leaky Gums & Leaky veins, Leaky Guts & Leaky Brains.” At a recent conference he presented the case study of a 55-year old woman with brain fog, increasingly poor memory and symptoms […]