Estelle's Newsletter

Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness is no joke. Minimising DOMS is always in the forefront of anybody who exercises. Many treatment options are available. Which work?

You have all been there: two days after leg day and walking down stairs is an exercise in pain.

Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness is the nemesis of all athletes. Your workout is great. Then by the end of the day after, you experience increasing stiffness and pain with movement. Why is that?

Part II of the series on Iron. In 2022, over 1.6 billion people worldwide were diagnosed with iron deficiency. Never-ending, debilitating fatigue is the most common sign of ID.

Similar to infection, psychological stress increase inflammatory markers in your central nervous system. Small molecules called cytokines are messengers that help coordinate the immune response.

Menopause is a hot topic right now. In 2024 Dr Lisa Mosconi published ground breaking research showing for the first time how estrogen decline affects brain regions directly.

Creatine supplementation is making a come back - for good reasons. Creatine benefits extend beyond exercise. Like many supplements, it can influence biomarkers on regular blood tests.

Many people manage to keep a stable weight over decades. How do they do it in the face of an ever increasing obesogenic environment?

Iron is necessary for physiological processes, such as oxygen transport, energy production, and cell division. Iron deficiency anaemia affects >30% of the world's population.

Current recommended minimum protein intakes may not be enough to stave off age related muscle loss known as Sarcopenia. Protein quantity and quality matters.
So many of us see our parents wasting before our eyes. The muscle appears to turn into skin and bone. They need to use their arms to get up from sitting. They struggle to get up two steps without using the handrail to pull themselves up.
And we get told it is normal: we will all lose muscle and strength as we get older.
Losing muscle year by year slowly drains our vitality and strength. Leading us to become frail and loose our independence.

But can you do something about it?

Interruption of blood flow to the brain is called a stroke. This can occur when a blood clot blocks a blood vessel (ischaemic stroke) or when a blood vessel breaks (hemorrhagic stroke) and the blood flows into the brain area. A mini (clot) stroke is called a Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA) and symptoms disappear within 24 hours.
The most prominent risk factor for stroke is high blood pressure.

Metabolism is constant throughout adult life. Well, until you are 60y...
“I gained weight in my 40s because my metabolism slowed down”. Like me, you will no doubt have heard this many times. Maybe you have even said this.
The effect of ageing. The analysis also showed that from the age of 60 years there is a decline in energy expenditure of 0.7% per year independent of the accompanying muscle loss.