Menopause Depression & Anxiety

Dishing Up Nutrition

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.

Nutrition, Education, Health & Fitness:nutrition, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.3 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

When many of us hear the word “menopause”, we might automatically think hot flashes, and yes, about 80% of menopausal women experience hot flashes. In addition to hot flashes, menopausal women can also experience insomnia, anxiety, mood swings, and depression, which are less likely to be talked about. During perimenopause when there is a fluctuation of hormones, mood swings can often occur and, usually, we can find a nutritional answer to alleviate symptoms. Today we will be discussing the hormone connection to depression and anxiety plus offer some nutritional solutions to consider.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition with licensed nutritionists and dietitians from nutritional
0:05.5	weight and wellness.
0:06.8	We explain the connection between what you eat and how you feel.
0:10.4	Stay tuned for practical real-life solutions for healthier living through real food nutrition.
0:15.5	Slow down, you move too fast, you got to make the morning last. Just kicking down the cobblestones, looking for fun
0:25.6	and feeling groovy. Welcome to Jishina Nutrition, brought to you by Nutritional Weight and Wellness.
0:33.9	I'm Melanie Beasley. I'm a registered and licensed dietitian, and I have been a dietitian for over 30 years.
0:40.7	I've been through the low-fat, low-calorie phase of nutrition. For me, it was the old-fashioned phase of nutrition, and it just was not based on accurate research.
0:54.0	The low-fat restrictive nutrition was developed to get fast weight loss,
1:00.0	but it failed because after years of eating low-fat and low-calorie diets,
1:06.8	75% of people are overweight or obese with type 2 diabetes.
1:12.7	I'd say that didn't really work, right, Brandy?
1:15.0	Absolutely.
1:16.2	I am happy to be a part of the real food movement.
1:20.5	Real food nutrition focuses on supplying critical nutrients for overall health of the body and brain. In Minnesota, there are over
1:31.1	11,000 licensed dietitians, and some may still be teaching that old-fashioned low-fat theory
1:39.4	and may still recommend low-fat milk and dairy products. Well, if you've been on a dairy farm, you know that those cows give us whole milk.
1:51.4	They don't give us half milk, skim milk.
1:54.7	Thank goodness, because it's more delicious.
1:56.8	And in whole milk, there is just the correct amount of protein the correct amount of carbs and the
2:03.8	correct amount of fat to nourish the body and the brain of those of our children right so this is
2:10.3	especially important for those kids brains right definitely they need that and i have attended
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