Pamela from 'Smarter Change' is here to help with the final step of feeling good on the inside when it comes to hitting our later years and things we can dp to help us in the long run.
Food and supplements are something we just read about and believe in all the myths that they will do to our bodies.
From burning fat with Grapefruit to building muscle with protein shakes, but only our bodies can prove these work for us…
Pamela is here to stop believing in what we hear is true, and read more about what our body is telling us it wants. Theres a massive difference!
She's here to make menopause easy and influence us on what changes or adaptions that we can do to make this process in our lives a lot easier…
According to the British Menopause Society (BMS), three-quarters of women say the menopause cause them to change their lives, and half say that it has had a negative impact on their lives. Almost half said they suffered from hot flushes and nearly half said they suffered from night sweats.
Hot flushes and night sweats are one of the biggest menopausal challenges faced by all women. Not only can they be uncomfortable and horribly debilitating, they are also so very public. There’s absolutely no way you can deny you’re having them when your make-up is sliding off your face, your cheeks are glowing a rather fetching shade of beetroot and your clothes are drenched and sticking embarrassingly to your skin. They disturb your sleep, they disrupt your life and they simply have to go!
So if you’re currently doing battle with your menopausal symptoms, you’re no doubt feeling desperate to find the ‘cure’ and have turned to many places in your quest but with no luck.
Never fear- here are my tried-and-tested tricks that will help you to reduce your hot flushes or even eliminate them altogether.
Clean up your diet
As the old saying goes, we are what we eat. And never is it truer than during the years of the menopause. If we continue to fill our bodies with rubbish, we will carry on feeling utterly rubbish and watch our symptoms grow worse by the day.
But don’t think that I’m recommending freaky fad diets where you exclude major food groups- I’m talking about returning to a better way of eating where you nourish your body and soul by making healthy food choices. Opt for the real food options, ditch the processed rubbish (especially sugar) and start to read your food labels (you’ll be astonished at what they put into our food!)
It’s also really important that you work to keep your blood sugar stable by avoiding caffeine as much as possible, avoiding sugar, eating regularly and including protein with every meal so that your hormones can rebalance effectively.
And lastly, become more mindful of how your food affects the way in which you feel. Check in with your body and see how feel around 2-3 hours after eating.
Avoid xenoestrogens
Xenoestrogens are nasty manmade chemicals which act as endocrine disruptors in the human body. They mimic your natural oestrogens and disrupt your natural hormonal balance, triggering a whole host of nasty and uncomfortable symptoms like those hot flushes.
The problem is, they’re nothing something that is straightforward to avoid. In this modern age, xenoestrogens can be found absolutely everywhere, from plastic bottles, food storage containers, baby bottles, cosmetics, chemicals for the home, pesticides, paper products and many more. Having said that, there are a few steps you can take to vastly reduce your intake. These include:
· Eating organic as much as possible and buying hormone-free meat and dairy.
· Don’t use plastic water bottles- invest in a funky stainless steel or glass one instead.
· Don’t use plastic food wrap or microwave your food in plastic. Go for glass or ceramics instead.
· Use natural beauty products (or make your own!)
Use chemical-free eco-friendly household cleaners and unbleached paper products.
Detox your liver
When oestrogen has done its job in your body, it heads to your liver to be broken down and finally eliminated. If your liver isn’t working optimally, you’ll start getting a back up (much like when the pipes are blocked at home!) and all that excess oestrogen will just hang around, making your hot fluches and night sweats worse. We can help get rid of this excess by doing the following:
● Use supplements such as DIM (Diindolylmethane). This is a phytochemical produced during the digestion of cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage and cauliflower and has a powerful detoxifying effect on the liver.
● Eat broccoli sprouts which naturally help flush out those hormones
As you can see, there’s no need to struggle on against your hot flushes. Make it a priority to target your diet, avoid xenoestrogens and detox your liver and you can greatly reduce or even eliminate your hot flushes and really start to feel human again.
Simple changes? I think so!
See Wellness Months final Q&A with Pamela on Thursday, answering more in-depth questions that you all have.
Love Sophie x
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