Resources

  • Osteoporosis Nutrient Calculator

    Osteoporosis is a health concern for all women as they get older.

    Women who suffer an osteoporotic hip fracture have a higher chance of dying from any cause for years after the event. Many of them cannot return to their previous level of independent living.

    Regular Heavy strength training, in addition to adequate nutrition and supplementation helps decrease the risk.

    The Osteoporosis Nutrient Calculator helps you determine if you need to get more through your diet or supplement to meet the daily recommended intake without over-supplementing.

  • Sleep well without Pills

    Consistent, high quality sleep is one of the most overlooked opportunities to decrease many bothersome symptoms of the menopause transition.

    Sleep influences your mental, emotional, and physical health; your appetite and body composition; your ability to make healthy food choices; your motivation for exercising and social connections.

    My Sleepwell is a very helpful website with free resources to help learn about your areas of opportunity to improve your sleep life.

  • Screen Yourself for High Blood Pressure

    Uncontrolled high blood pressure (hypertension) is a major driver of heart disease.

    This matters because heart disease is, by far, the leading cause of death.

    It also matters because women are underscreened AND undertreated.

    Click here to learn how to correctly measure your blood pressure to screen yourself for hypertension.

  • Anxiety and Depression Therapy

    There are many ways in which our thinking causes unnecessary worry, anxiety, and sadness.

    Fortunately, there is a specific type of counselling called Cognitive Behavioural Therapy that helps us identify our “pitfalls” of thinking, acknowledge, and reframe our situations, and change our thinking to avoid this unneeded stress.

    This link provides free, short-term, virtual/online counselling for residents of Ontario. If you have not done CBT, I would highly recommend it.

  • Counselling - InPerson or Virtual

    If you’re looking for an in-person connection with a provider focusing on midlife women’s health, have a look at Dominique Williams, Registered Social Worker.

  • Pelvic Physiotherapy

    Bladder incontinence is one of the most common symptoms that women think they just have to deal with.

    Yet many of us are not aware that pelvic physiotherapy can improve symptoms that are caused by the pelvic floor muscles being too weak or too strong.

    It can also help with pain during sex, in the pelvis, hips, and low back.

    Here is a link to find a pelvic physiotherapist in your area to find out more.

  • Cholesterol Lowering Foods

    Cholesterol matters because it is linked with the likelihood of having a heart attack.

    While environment, genetics, age, and sex all play a role in cholesterol levels, so does the lifestyle. Regular exercise and dietary considerations can help improve your levels too.

    Here is a link to learn more about dietary ways to improve Cholesterol as recommended by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society.

  • Indulging Wisely: Alcohol

    Did you that more than 2 standardized alcoholic drinks per week increases your risk for breast cancer?

    And more than 7/week is associated with a LOT of health problems?

    Click here to learn what a standard drink looks like so you can indulge wisely.

You should check out Judy’s Seminars

If sharing is caring, and sharing is information, Judy cares A LOT

In her own words:

All I did the first year I started the menopause transition (circa 2021) was learn as much as possible about perimenopause, midlife women’s health, and optimal vs just disease-free living. I thought I was a pretty healthy person but what I have and continue to learn is mind-blowing.

  • Heart disease

  • emotional health

  • osteoporosis

  • libido and sexual health,

  • nutrition

  • exercise

  • disease screening

These are all things I have trained up on, well beyond my Nurse and Nurse Practitioner training. Keep in mind that NONE of us get menopause training. I mean physicians, gynecologists, nurses, physician assistants - none of us. AND they don’t even tell us there’s a whole world of knowledge and evidence and safe treatments.

So part of my aim with Improving Midlife Women’s Health in Ontario is to share education that is reliable and researched-based; that includes Menopause Hormone Therapy (MHT) but goes way beyond it because it’s about a LOT more than medications.

Thus far I have lectured/spoken in Stratford, St Marys, Kitchener, and Goderich in collaboration with hospitals, museums, unions, and other healthcare providers. I speak on a variety of topics related to women’s health, catered to your request. These include:

  • Navigating Menopause and Beyond: an Overview of the WHI study, transition stages, hormone therapy, non-medication treatments, lifestyle, heath and independence maintenance

  • Perimenopause and Mental Health: how this transition influences our mental and emotional health and bandwidth and what can be done to ease suffering

  • Perimenopause and Lifestyle: heavy focus on non-prescription approaches to functioning well during this phase of life

When I get to work with Museums, we try to include a brief recollection of midlife women’s health throughout history.

“Between opening the Menopause Clinic and the Museum Seminars, Judy has changed women’s health care in Huron-Perth. The history really helped me understand why women’s health is where it is today and how we can influence health care policy and advocacy going forward. She started an entire movement.”

— Anonymous Patient and Seminar Attendant