My Top 10 Menopause-Friendly Foods – World Menopause Day Special

Season 6 • Episode 6
Jackie Lynch, Menopause Nutritionist & Author

This special episode shines a spotlight on nutrition to celebrate World Menopause Day. It’s actually a re-release of one of my most popular episodes, which I thought you might like to discover or rediscover, because it’s packed with useful information and foodie tips.

I thought it was important to focus on foods to balance out my other special, which is on this year’s WMD theme of HRT. In that episode, BMS menopause specialist Kathy Abernethy debunks some of the myths and mysteries around HRT.

However, whether you take HRT or not, the right nutrition is incredibly important. In fact, the better you eat, the more effective your HRT will be! Because it’s basically just hormones. The body still needs to know what to do with those hormones, and this is where your diet comes in. Different nutrients are key catalysts in the chain reaction of our hormones that affect all the systems in our body. And if you’re not taking HRT, the right food is even more important to help you manage your symptoms.

In this episode, I’ve picked out my 10 favourite foods to support a healthy menopause. There’s something for everyone in there, and there might be a couple of surprises too! So get your notebooks ready so that you can plan your menopause-friendly shopping list!

Show Notes

Find out more about how nutrition supports your health in Jackie’s latest book The Happy Menopause: Smart Nutrition to Help You Flourish

Book in for a nutrition consultation with Jackie for a bespoke menopause programme

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Check out Jackie’s other books: Va Va Voom: The 10-Day Energy Diet and The Right Bite: Smart Food Choices for Eating on the Go

Biography

Award-winning nutritionist and author, Jackie Lynch is the founder of the WellWellWell nutrition clinic, where she specialises in women’s health and the menopause. Keen to break the taboo about discussing the menopause, she launched the popular diet & lifestyle podcast The Happy Menopause. It’s been shortlisted for the 2021, 2022 and 2024 International Women’s Podcast Awards.

Her latest book, The Happy Menopause: Smart Nutrition to Help You Flourish (Watkins, 2020) is a symptom-by-symptom guide to managing menopause symptoms through diet and lifestyle. It was Highly Commended in the 2021 Health & Wellbeing Awards for the Wellbeing Book category.

Jackie is also the author of Va Va Voom; The 10-Day Energy Diet (Headline, 2017) and The Right Bite: Smart Food Choices for Eating on the Go (Nourish, 2016).  Jackie’s advice features in a range of national media. She has also appeared as a guest expert on radio and TV, including Channel 4’s Superfoods.

Jackie’s nutrition clinic won Menopause Nutrition Clinic of the Year in the 2021 and 2022 London & South-East Prestige Awards.

From 2011-2022, Jackie was the Chair of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, the renowned training provider for accredited nutritional therapy in the UK. She is a Fellow of the British Association for Nutrition & Lifestyle Medicine and a Member of the British Menopause Society.