Why Traditional Menopause Care Fails Women

For too long, menopause has been treated as an afterthought in healthcare. Women experiencing brain fog, weight gain, hot flushes, or joint pain are often told it’s just part of ageing. They’re left to figure it out on their own, bouncing between practitioners with little continuity of care.

Maintaining strong, healthy bones is crucial to maintaining strength, agility, independence and overall wellbeing. This is particularly important as we age, or are confronted with factors that may affect our bone density. At Papaya Clinic, we take an integrative healthcare approach to bone health, combining evidence-based conventional strategies with complementary therapies. This article explores how an integrative healthcare approach can help prevent and manage osteoporosis.

Welcoming a new baby is one of life’s most transformative experiences, but postpartum recovery often comes with physical challenges that many women feel unprepared for. From abdominal separation (diastasis recti) to pelvic discomfort and back pain, new mothers may experience symptoms that can affect their daily lives, confidence, and ability to care for their baby.

The option for people to increase their fertility window with egg freezing is becoming more accessible, and more popular. Embryo freezing, which is also a fertility preserving technique,  is the same as the first half of the IVF process, and advice about this can be found elsewhere. In this article we’ll be covering egg-freezing specifically.

At Papaya Clinic, acupuncture is a structured, holistic journey towards long-term health. True healing happens when treatment is combined with the right lifestyle changes, consistency, and accountability.

Most people seek acupuncture when symptoms become too disruptive to ignore—chronic pain, headaches, insomnia, digestive issues, hormonal imbalances—but the real transformation happens when we go beyond symptom relief and address the underlying patterns that created the imbalance in the first place.

That’s why at Papaya, we guide you through a structured care plan, ensuring that each phase of treatment builds on the last. Our model of care is designed to retrain your body to find balance - reinforce healthy habits, and make long-term changes that stick.

Prevention is better than cure.” Different systems of medicine have advice on how to keep well, including on how to protect yourself from extreme environmental conditions. Of course, traditionally extreme weather happened at the height of winter or summer, or with the sudden changes in weather which tended to happen at the change of the seasons, such as the “spring winds”.

Acupuncture is a therapy that originated in China over many hundreds of years and is part of a system of medicine called Traditional Chinese Medicine— which was the only form of medicine in many parts of Asia until very recent history. Traditional Chinese medicine not only included acupuncture, but also herbal medicine, massage, exercise, meditation practices, lifestyle medicine, and preventive measures called yang sheng, literally “the cultivation of health” practices.

In this blog, we’ll explore everything you need to know about menopause and pelvic health, including symptoms to look for and pelvic floor strengthening strategies that’ll help you feel your best.

Many women face issues related to a tight pelvic floor or vaginismus, yet these terms and conditions are often misunderstood or used interchangeably.