This is a re-release episode with the brilliant Jackie Lynch, Registered Nutritional Therapist and author of The Happy Menopause. I just love that title! Jackie's work is all about how nutrition can help us flourish in midlife and beyond.

✨ Book news! Jackie's latest book The Happy Menopause Guide to Energy: Nutrition to Rejuvenate Your Brain & Body is now out. While her original book The Happy Menopause: Smart Nutrition to Help You Flourish is a symptom-by-symptom guide you can dip in and out of, this new sister copy takes a different approach. It's essentially a journey through one of her clinical programmes in book form.

So many of the women Jackie sees in her clinic struggle with physical and/or mental energy in midlife, so she decided to take a deep dive into the subject. In this new book, she guides readers through a step-by-step process to regain mental clarity, physical stamina, and overall vitality. It helps you pinpoint what's draining your energy and create a tailored action plan to rejuvenate brain and body. Available now in book, ebook, and audio form, in all the usual places.

If you'd rather read a summary transcription of this podcast episode, you can do that here.

We talk about:

-Why Jackie believes menopause is a transformational time in a woman's life (in a good way)

-Estrogen as the biddable, nurturing hormone

-Why some women suffer badly in menopause and others don't

-The massive importance of diet and lifestyle in midlife and beyond

-How the manner in which we lived when younger can impact our menopause experience

-The impact of stress and the myth of having it all

-How I got my periods back after a diagnosis of early menopause

-The importance of maintaining stable blood sugar levels

-How the body produces stress hormones when blood sugar levels are not stable

-How menopause may not be to blame for what's happening to us

-How our thoughts and beliefs can impact our experience of menopause

-The importance of eating more protein with every meal and snack

-Getting magnesium, calcium and iron from leafy green vegetables

-How phytoestrogens mimic the actions of estrogen in the body

-The wonder food that is flaxseed

-The physiological stress we can put on our bodies through diet and lifestyle

-Understanding whether HRT is right for you and how to balance that with diet and lifestyle

-Why HRT is not a quick solution and still needs a good diet for the best support

-How I weaned myself off HRT at 51

-How just small nutritional changes can make a huge difference

-Jackie's own midlife reinvention

And more!

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Order Rachel's book, Magnificent Midlife: Transform Your Middle Years, Menopause And Beyond, recommended in The New York Times as one of seven top books about menopause at magnificentmidlife.com/book

The paperback can also be purchased on Amazon or other online retailers:

UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnificent-Midlife-Transform-Middle-Menopause/dp/173981150X/

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Feedspot #9 in 40 Best Midlife Podcasts and #7 in 60 Best Women Over 50 Podcasts

You'll find lots of strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent at magnificentmidlife.com.

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