Menopause: fuel for life and finding balance - plus a feelgood chicken-salad recipe

In her new book ‘The Menopause Kitchen’ nutritionist Rachel Graham helps women to manage their symptoms and rebalance their health through diet

Rachel Graham: writer of the Menopause Kitchen. Pic: Jo Murphy

“I was my own case study,” says nutritionist and medicinal chef Rachel Graham, the author of The Menopause Kitchen (Gill Books). 

Graham, like many women, was blindsided by the onset of menopause. In her book, published this week, she writes of being affected by symptoms that initially she didn’t connect with menopause: Aching joints, waking up during the night, brain fog, anxiety, and hot flushes.