Gut Feelings: Is there a link between increased fruit intake, gut health and your menopause brain fog? [Video]

Over the past decade, the gut microbiome has emerged as making an important contribution to human health, with increasing interest into how it may also influence symptoms during and after the menopause transition. 

Feelings of melancholy and sadness are known symptoms during your midlife menopause transition. This is because the levels of your reproductive hormones are naturally declining and these changes in the brain, may affect some of your mood hormones, including serotonin.

However, many women don’t realise, that these effects begin in our gut. Yes, that’s right. Our gut.

With the fascinating connection between nerves in our gut and nerves in the brain, the gut-brain axis has become an important part of the menopause and brain health research.

What is the Gut-Brain Axis?

This powerful axis connects nerves and hormones between the gut and the brain. Millions of nerves run between your gut and brain. These nerves all ‘talk’ to each other through this pathway. 

During menopause, inflammatory changes in this pathway, known as neuroinflammation…