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Why We Would Always Recommend to Start Hormone Therapy First …

….before embarking on food and lifestyle changes

We are the first to admit that making healthy food & lifestyle choices is absolutely paramount for a long-term vitality and well-ageing strategy. In peri and menopausal women, it is even more important to prioritise healthy choices because we are at an increased risk for any potential health condition as a result of the physiologic changes that comes with ageing and hormone decline.

Having said that, in our experience, having been working with menopausal women, and being menopausal women ourselves, it is very difficult to make healthy food & lifestyle choices when you feel “less for nothing” …

What is our typical menopausal woman like?

Our typical menopausal woman isn’t sleeping well. She has difficulty with either failing asleep or waking up multiple times during the night with hot flashes [or both], a racing mind, or to use the bathroom.

Her erratically fluctuating or declining hormones cause fatigue and mood changes, both of which impact her motivation to make good choices throughout the day.

Your typical menopausal woman knows that she should be eating better, but she is exhausted, so the thought of meal planning, shopping, preparting, and cooking is too mcuh to bear for that moment on top of her job, caring for her kids and her ageing parents.

Your typical menopause woman knows that she should be hydrated better, but she is exhausted, so reaching for some caffeine instead of water seems to be like a great idea [to keep her energy up].

Your typical menopause woman knows that she should exercise and move her body more each day, but she is barely able to get herself through her working day after being up half the night.

She is knows all of the above and much more ….however, hormones run our bodies. Hormones are what make us feel vital, energetic and alive.

When hormones decline, as they do during our menopausal years,

  • we don’t feel like our former, vibrant selves.
  • It is If not impossible in some cases, to master you enough energy to make good choices when we feel this way.

Replenishing hormones as earlier as you can, even during perimenopause  addresses the root cause of our symptoms, which allows us to feel like ourselves again with some of the major benefits being:

  • We sleep better
  • we have more energy
  • we have better mood
  • we have better relatioships too

We are no longer hanging by a thread, so we can prioritise the health and lifestyle pieces that support a healthy body.

Richard Morgan Evans

Founder & CEO of Sapience Communications

Richard co-founded Sapience with three highly successful business figures in the UK, including former bank and private equity CEOs. This followed previous careers in law, working as an equity analyst for a number of investment banks and financial journalism, which included writing for The Economist, The Times and The Independent.

During his journalist career, he visited the Gulf and Saudi Arabia many times, interviewing senior banking and business figures, such as the head of the Saudi Central Bank and leaders at Saudi Aramco, SABIC, Olayan Group and the Kanoo Group. A number of his features appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and The Washington Post.

His PR experience includes being the MD of the Financial Division of a leading UK multidisciplinary PR consultancy before co-founding Sapience. He is often asked to judge PR awards, most recently he was on the judging panel of the Public Relations Consultancy Association’s Financial Services PR awards.

He specialises in advising on strategic media relations, reputational risk, media relations and training, crisis communications, and all forms of corporate transactions. Richard is a law graduate of the University of Cambridge.

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