Women's Health

Menopause  

Given that most women will menstruate for around a third or more of there life, the importance of a regular, symptom free cycle and a positive menopausal transition should not be overlooked.  Restoring balance to your hormonal system can often be achieved through dietary and lifestyle changes.  Nutritional and Herbal medicines are used to rebalance and support the body where necessary and allow hormonal systems to function optimally.   

Midlife Women's Health check

• Full hormonal panel to assess hormone balance, thyroid function and stress profile.
• Nutritional overhaul
• Cellular health analysis
• Cardiovascular and bone health risk assessment

What causes hormonal imbalance?

Your Adrenal health is vitality important to how your transtiton into and through menopausal change will effect you.  Years of stress, poor sleep and nutritonal deficiency will impact on your adrenal health and hormonal balance. Adrenal fatigue is the major cause of hormonal symptoms that many women experience today and needs to be a assessed as a major contributor of symtoms.  Restoring health, vitality and balance to all our body systems can be achieved through appropriate dietary and lifestyle changes. Factors such as stress, poor thyroid and liver function, gut dysbiosis and nutritional insufficiency's can all impact negatively on healthy hormone production. 

Food and fitness help regulate hormonal balance.

Environmental toxins, poor diet and lack of regular physical activity can contribute to a deficiency or excess of hormone production.  Addressing these factors is an integral part of restoring balance. 

• Increase good sources of omega 3 and monounsaturated fats in the diet with raw nuts and seeds, oily cold water fish and cold pressed oils.
• Drink at least 1-2 litres of filtered water daily
• Make exercise a regular part of your life
• Avoid table salt, long-chain saturated fats and hydrogenated vegetable oils (trans fats)
• Reduce caffeine and alcohol intake
• Avoid soft drinks, refined sugar and processed foods
• Stop smoking