Foundation Nutrition during Menopause

Good nutrition and an active lifestyle remain the cornerstone of a healthy menopause.

This is true whether Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) is part of a woman’s treatment plan or not.

While food is no replacement for clinically justified medicine, nutrition habits can play a legitimate role in your health, both now and in the future. 

The increase of INFLAMMATION that naturally occurs as oestrogen lowers during the menopause transition causes an array of health concerns: 

● Hot flushes 

● Joint pain 

● Vaginal dryness 

● Visceral fat increase (belly fat) 

● Long term health risks 

Without oestrogen and its anti-inflammatory protection our body simply doesn’t have the ability to keep inflammation down. 

Inflammatory Foods

So firsty, INFLAMMATORY foods (alcohol, processed food, processed meat, processed sugar like sweets/biscuits/baked goods, fried foods, refined carbs; white bread/pasta etc) need to be significantly reduced (life is about balance and eliminating these foods completely from your diet will put massive pressure on you and isn’t achievable, so the focus is to eat a diet of mostly whole foods, with occasional processed foods.

Think 80/20 wholefoods to processed! 

I want you to focus on fuelling and helping your body by giving it the foods that it NEEDS and in this stage of life a large part of that is food to help keep inflammation down. 

Yes, the food we eat either helps our body or works against it! 

So aim to HELP your body…. Because it’s the only one you have!