Your supplement protocol should be reviewed regularly. Have a look through your supplement stash and consider whether they are all necessary – have you noticed any changes in your health status since you’ve been taking them? Have they made any difference? Check the labels to establish what’s in them – are the nutrient levels beneficial, what are the fillers, what is the source of the nutrient? Have you checked whether they interact with any of your medications?
Read MoreAlcohol, sugar and stress are the most common drivers behind leaky gut that I see in my clients, particularly as they go through menopause (which also, by the way, has an impact on the gut lining).
Read More“Like it or not, at some point during midlife, you’re going down, and after that there are only two choices: staying down or enduring rebirth.” Brené Brown
You can completely change your life in your 50s. But if your brain isn’t working so well - if you can't concentrate, if you struggle to make decisions, or you struggle to find the right words or your memory isn't quite what it used to be - it makes it more challenging to turn things around.
Our cognitive health is all-important.
It doesn’t matter how many B vitamins, magnesium, zinc, adaptogens etc that we take, we cannot out-supplement stress.
To support sleep, energy levels, immune system health, gut, hormones, and mental & cognitive health, we need to calm our nervous systems.
Perimenopause and menopause cause changes in body composition and may also lead to depression, anxiety, stress, fatigue, insomnia and cognitive decline –all of which, according to various studies, can trigger the onset of alcohol abuse or worsen previously existing alcohol use disorders (AUDs).
And this is what happened to me – my existing AUD spiralled out of control.
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Read MoreLow-grade, systemic inflammation is now understood to be the basis of most age-related diseases like cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, some cancers, and diabetes.
Good gut health is crucial in keeping this low-grade inflammation in check – it helps to regulate immune function throughout the entire body.
Read MoreIt makes sense that by paying attention to what and when you eat, and to what and how you supplement - by supporting the physiological imbalances caused by chronic drinking - you will make a big difference to how you feel as you recover.
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