Heart based hauora advise and medicine. Thrive with your own rhythm
Integrating IO magic with conventional medicine
Putting the Heart back into Medicine
Empowered Whole Health Care
30 years of medical experience
30 years of medical experience
The mind influences our body. Our body keeps the score of our stresses and struggles.
Jo has an understanding of the latest trauma therapies as well as traditional Maori Rōngoa.
Supporting tinana, hinengaro, wairua and whānau with mātauranga and manākitanga.
Jo also believes good nutrition and movement right for you is key for optimum hauora.
30 years of medical experience
30 years of medical experience
30 years of medical experience
Jo Battye has knowledge from both conventional and integrated practices over the last 3 decades.
Jo has a special interest in Women's Health, MENOPAUSE, Sexual health and Mental Health.
Using body-identical hormones and nutrition with other lifestyle suggestions Menopause can become the rite of passage it is designed to be.
With Jo as your
Jo Battye has knowledge from both conventional and integrated practices over the last 3 decades.
Jo has a special interest in Women's Health, MENOPAUSE, Sexual health and Mental Health.
Using body-identical hormones and nutrition with other lifestyle suggestions Menopause can become the rite of passage it is designed to be.
With Jo as your doctor and therapist you will feel safe to be vulnerable, you will feel heard, seen and hopefully understood. You will receive information that will empower you to make informed health choices.
Medicine with Heart
30 years of medical experience
Medicine with Heart
Understanding and harmonising our nervous and other systems to create holistic harmony.
Focusing how we EAT, SLEEP, MOVE and BREATHE is a great start for optimal wellbeing.
Creating grounded stability whilst being open to experiencing all of life.
Mindfulness has been clinically proven to reduce stress, improve sleep and help chronic illness.
Heal your nervous system and toxic beliefs.
Finding the root cause stresses and creating new beliefs creates balance and ease.
Trauma Informed Coaching can create relaxation of our overstressed nervous systems.
Trauma Informed Coaching can create relaxation of our overstressed nervous systems.
Jo loves to empower others to heal themselves whilst walking along side you. As we release limiting beliefs and trauma we remember the space within where courage, compassion, clarity, connectedness, creativity reside. Jo aims to help you remember the wild and free side of your Self.
By tuning into natural rhythms we reduce the fear of raging hormones or dis-ease. We can learn to nurture the feminine and honor the masculine within all of us.
Understanding elementals to improve relationships.
Jo can help you befriend your body and your cycles. Jo blends conventional medicines with nutrient dense foods like cacao and mushrooms. Connecting to creativity, presence, music and movement to recover wellbeing.
Cure the cause rather than chasing magic bullets that cause more symptoms.
Trauma Informed Coaching can create relaxation of our overstressed nervous systems.
Trauma Informed Coaching can create relaxation of our overstressed nervous systems.
Trauma Informed Coaching can create relaxation of our overstressed nervous systems.
Jo can help you explore your inner child wounding and Orphaned parts. Trauma is not just intense single events. Jo can hold safe space for you to somatically experience and process illness and trauma ready for release. Most of us hold developmental, generational and collective trauma within our memories.
There are no bad parts of any of us. Trauma is an adaption.
When we tune into loving kindness, gratitude, acceptance and trust we realise we need to fix, change and improve much less than our mind wants us to think.
Mā, tika and pono are vital to honor our creator. Through purity of thoughts and actions we open up to receive IO ( the god of unity) blessings. We then live a life of ease and abundance.
With partnership we can dissolve struggle and rest and digest in relaxation mode more so we can thrive.
Jo aims to help you remember the joyful, wild and free side of your Self.
Frequently Asked Questions about Women's Health
Please reach us at battyejo@gmail.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
MENOPAUSE IS WHEN YOU HAVEN"T HAD A PERIOD FOR 12 MONTHS
You then have to track back to the date of that last period and this is your Menopause moment - everything that happens after this date is then called Post-Menopause
The last period occurs at different ages for different women - the average age in New Zealand is 51, but the range is anywhere from age 45 to 55.
If menopause happens between the ages 40 to 45, this is called Early Menopause.
If it happens before the age of 40, this is called Premature Menopause or Premature Ovarian Insufficiency (or POI)
Our periods usually don't just stop suddenly.
Instead they become irregular and often more spaced out before they finally fully stop. Once they have stopped for 12 consequetive months, then we can say you have been through the menopause.
If you are over 45 and your periods stop and you have menopausal symptoms, you do NOT need a hormone blood test.
Blood tests for hormone levels are useful for women who go through early menopause - to confirm menopause has actually happened and to rule out other things that can stop periods - such as Thyroid issues or Polycystic Ovary disease.
They can also be useful to confirm when menopause happens in a woman whose periods had already stopped because of certain forms of contraception including the Mirena coil.
Perimenopause is the time when our hormone levels begin to change and fluctuate because we are starting the transition towards menopause (the ending of our periods)
The symptoms can be subtle at first and look a lot like other conditions. Which is part of what makes it under-recognised.
Your hormone blood tests are usually normal in the perimenopause
The hormones don't just stop one day - they fluctuate. There can be sudden surges, followed by sudden drops and the nice monthly rhythm starts to get lost.
All these hormonal ups and downs can cause havoc. Mentally and physically.
The early symptoms can include any of the following:
- Fatigue
- Brain Fog
- Mood changes, especially anxiety.
- Trouble sleeping
- Skin changes (dryness, acne etc)
- Reduced sex drive
- Headaches
- Muscle and Joint aches/pains
This means the molecules are very similar to our own hormones.
Oestrodiol can be prescribed as tablets or transdermal patches. Progesterone can be prescribed as Uterogestan.
Testosterone can be prescribed as Androfeme cream, but is not currently funded in New Zealand and can cost about $120 for 3 months.
Unfortunately a large study of HRT by the Women's Health Initiative was stopped 20 years ago and the results can be spun different ways depending on which camp you sit in. HRT is definately good for your bones. HRT is likely to reduce your risk of Alzheimer's disease, but adopting a Mediterranean diet may also give the same effects. HRT is definately effective for hot flushes and night sweats and likely helps with joint aches. HRT is often less effective for fatigue, mood issues and libido. HRT can help some people a lot and give others severe side effects.
The hormone changes around menopause create stress in the body so strategies that help relax our autonomic nervous system are also effective such as meditation, exercise such as yoga, tai chi and qijong. Improving our nutrition is also important.
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