Real Food for Every Phase of Your Life with May Simpkin - Episode 55 | English

The Heidi Hauer Podcast

This episode's guest doesn't just have a wealth of knowledge on all things related to nutrition, she's also an inspirational example of how it’s never too late to start something new. May Simpkin is a qualified UK Registered nutritionist who describes herself as a real woman with a busy family life. May believes that eating well doesn’t mean only broccoli and berries. Instead, she recommends a diet of real food that is achievable, realistic, and practical, advocating for cooking from scratch and producing meals of color, taste, and nutritional balance. In this episode, May discusses some of the most common challenges that her clients face, from busy moms trying to feed their children nutritious meals to older women trying to use diet and exercise to navigate menopause. Tuning in, you’ll hear about the link between blood sugar balance and overall wellness, how to avoid that afternoon energy low, tips to introduce variety into your child’s diet, May’s views on hormone replacement therapy to treat the symptoms of menopause, and much much more! To hear all of this useful advice as well as the story of how May stumbled into this career in her fifties through following her passion, tune in now!

Key Points:

• What May Simpkin means by “real food”.
• Insight into some of the most common challenges that May’s clients, especially moms, face.
• How to introduce variety in your child’s diet.
• The benefits of ‘eating the rainbow’ or adding color to your plate.
• The link between blood sugar balance and our overall wellness.
• The afternoon energy low and how to avoid it.
• Insight into the elements of menopause that younger women are often unaware of.
• How you can use nutrition to navigate through the years of menopause or peri-menopause.
• The role of exercise in your menopause years.
• May’s views on hormone replacement therapy to treat the symptoms of menopause.
• How alcohol can worsen the symptoms of menopause.
• How your diet and lifestyle during menopause set you up for your later years.
• The story of how May stumbled into this career later on in life through following her passion.
• May’s advice to anyone considering a career in nutrition.
• May’s chateaux in France and how you can find out about the health retreats she runs there.
• May’s one message to all the women in the world: It’s never too late to start something new!

Quotes:

“You’ve got to just think about your lifestyle, think about your goals, think about your current health and situation, and make sure that anything that you embark on is a real way of living, that is going to be true to yourself, and you are going to be able to be consistent with it.” — May Simpkin [0:02:40]

“Is that lifestyle not only achieving your goals but are you happy doing it? Do you feel good? Do you feel content? Do you feel energised? Do you feel inspired, motivated? And you will feel all of those things if you are achieving what you want to achieve and if you feel good doing it.” — May Simpkin [0:03:12]

“When you add color, you also add nutrients. It’s actually that simple!” — May Simpkin [0:07:29]

“What is really important and what you gain by studying nutrition is not whether something is good or bad for you but what is going on in your body to make it good for you or to make it bad for you?” — May Simpkin [0:32:38]

Links:

May's website: https://maysimpkin.com

The New Healthy programme: https://maysimpkin.com/the-new-healthy/

May on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maysimpkinnutrition/

Show on Heidi's website: https://heidihauer.com/podcast/