COTSWOLD MENOPAUSE BLOG

How are your joints feeling? Do they ache? Are you in your 40s or 50s? One of the key symptoms of perimenopause that sneaks up on us is the achiness in our joints and muscles. You’ll be living with your body for many more years, so let’s address those creaks and pains. I’ll explain how you can support your joints in this month’s blog: Are your joints aching in perimenopause?

As a nation, it's been recognized that we need supplementation to support us daily, but as you transition through peri and menopause, you tend to cut down on the products that have fortified wheat in them. Vitamin B's are critical to your health, and never more so than as you transition through the peri/menopause, so this month my blog is: Why vitamin B's are your perimenopausal best friend!

I'm a good sleeper! That may not be the way to start off a blog if you're reading this and you're tired and frustrated about your lack of...

(without mentioning Yoga!) I've received phone calls recently asking me to give women oestrogen! Of course I can talk about...

The more years I spend researching, learning, observing and helping women the more it becomes clearer as to the underlying causes of a...

You didn't choose to have the menopause, but you can choose HOW to have your menopause! I was having lunch with a group of my networking...

I'm dipping my toe into the tricky world of oestrogen today, so let me start by saying I'm not a hormones expert (I'm chinese medicine...

I'll still eat my words: 'I'll coast through the menopause, I'm a therapist'. This is what I said just after my 45th birthday to a lady...

I know a lot about anxiety, I had it in junior school, senior, through my 20s and media career and into my 30s... then it went... then it...

When I found this out I went W.O.W and it opened my eyes to a new possibility... Just how many menopause symptoms are related to...

When I talk about the liver (and I talk about it a lot!) I realise women don't understand the long term importance of why we need to look...

Whether you're reading this in the middle of winter in the UK or the height of summer in another country now isn't the time for you to...

Often these symptoms are put together as just 'I'm really moody, and all over the place', but when you think about it being in a low mood...

Surviving Menopause: 7 Reasons Why You Feel So Tired It's the biggie in Perimenopause, and a LOT of your symptoms stem from being...

Back when I started investigating the symptoms of the menopause I decided there must be a 'hot type' and a 'cold type', and I wasn't too far

I'm thrilled that at the moment there is a real buzz about talking about the Menopause. Too long its been a background conversation,...

I meet so many women who feel their GP's don't understand them or dismiss that their symptoms could possibly Menopause related. The...