Episode 62: How to have a happy menopause with Jackie Lynch

Jackie Lynch is a Registered Nutritional Therapist who’s written a very interesting book called The Happy Menopause. It’s specifically about how nutrition can help us flourish and I just love the title Happy Menopause.

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 Rachel got her 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
HRT is not a quick solution and still needs a good diet for the best support
How Rachel weaned herself off HRT at 51
How just small nutritional changes can make a huge difference
Jackie’s own midlife reinvention