Maryon Stewart

Maryon Stewart is a British author and broadcaster[1] known for her work in the field of non-drug medicine. Specialising in educating and coaching women in how to control menopause symptoms without hormone replacement therapy (HRT),[2] she is sometimes referred to as a pioneer of the "Natural Menopause Movement".[3]

Maryon Stewart
Maryon in 2016
Maryon in 2016
BornLondon, England
OccupationAuthor, broadcaster

In 2018, Stewart was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to drug education, having successfully campaigned to restrict the production, sale and supply of 'legal highs' in the UK.[4] Her 28 self-help books have sold millions of copies worldwide (some reaching the bestsellers lists in Australia) and she has co-authored six published medical papers.[5] In 2019, she launched Healthy, Wise & Well[6] in the UK and, in 2021, Femmar Health Corp[7] in the USA, both providing menopause support and guidance in and outside the workplace. Stewart frequently lectures both to the public and medical profession. In 2020, she gave a presentation on the economic case for managing menopause naturally in the workplace at Longevity Leaders World Congress.[8]

Early life

Stewart was born in Clapton, London and grew up in Clayhall. Her father was of Russian and Polish descent, her mother of English and Romanian descent. She took an interest in charity and fundraising work from a young age.[9] In a 2012 interview in The Jewish Chronicle, she told Lynne Franks, "I always wanted to help people. That was my thing – change things for people, make it better somehow."[9]

Early career

Stewart studied preventive dentistry and nutrition at the Royal Dental Hospital in London and worked as a counsellor with nutritional doctors in England for four years.[5]

In 1984, she set up the PMT Advisory Service – the first non-drug advisory for premenstrual tension in the world.[10] In 1987, she launched the Women's Nutritional Advisory Service and in 2003, the Natural Health Advisory Service. Research by the service claimed to have identified a link between low levels of important nutrients and female brain chemistry and hormone function.[11] Using this data, Stewart and her team of medical professionals devised a non-drug method that they believed redressed nutritional and hormonal imbalances in women and helped them overcome PMT[12][13] and restore wellbeing.[14] Her first book Beat PMT Through Diet (later known as No More PMS!) was first published in 1987.[15]

Pioneer of the natural menopause

In 1990, Stewart adopted the same non-drug method she'd used in her PMT work to focus on perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause.[16][17][18]

Stewart has partnered with a host of companies to support the delivery of menopause services in the workplace, including Virgin Care, Lovell, Cisco and Womble Bond Dickinson.

In 2021, Stewart's book The Natural Menopause Plan[19] was named by the Evening Standard as one of the best 10 books on menopause.[20] Her 28th book (her first in the US), entitled Manage Your Menopause Naturally,[21] was published in November 2020 by New World Library.

Media appearances

Since the 1990s, Stewart has been a regular contributor to the mainstream UK media. She has been featured in The Guardian[22] and Forbes[23] and appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.[24]

In 2001, she became the resident nutritionist on Channel 4's Model Behaviour and launched her own series, The Really Useful Health Show, on the Body in Balance channel on Sky TV.[12]

In October 2022, Stewart's Maryon’s Menopause Moments featured on the PBS television network in the US to celebrate World Menopause Month. This will be followed up with a 12-program series in Spring 2023.[25]

Books

Stewart has written a series of self-help books, including:The Vitality Diet,[26] Maryon Stewart's Zest for Life Plan,[27] Beat Sugar Craving:The Revolutionary 4-Week Diet,[28] The Model Plan: Eating Well, Looking Good, Feeling Great,[29] Healthy Parents, Healthy Baby,[30] The Real Life Diet,[31] No More IBS!,[32] No More PMS!,[33] Beat PMT Through Diet,[34] Cruising Through The Menopause: Managing Your Menopause Successfully Without HRT,[35] The Natural Menopause Plan,[19] The Natural Menopause Kit,[36] Beat Menopause Naturally,[37]The Phyto Factor[38] and Manage Your Menopause Naturally.[21]

She has also co-authored the following publications: Every Woman's Health Guide: The Woman's Nutritional Advisory Service Handbook for Drug-free Health,[39] The Natural Health Bible: An A-Z guide to drug-free health[40] with Alan Stewart and Beat PMS Cookbook[41] with Sarah Tooley.

Charity work and campaigning

In 2009, Stewart's daughter Hester – a medical student at the University of Sussex – died after taking the 'legal high' gamma butyrolactone (GBL). She was 21 years old.[42]

Stewart placed her women's health work on hold to focus on fighting for a ban on the production, sale and supply of legal highs in the UK.[43][44] In memory of her daughter, she established the Angelus Foundation.[45] In 2012, the Angelus Foundation partnered with the Amy Winehouse Foundation to front a national campaign to make drug and alcohol education compulsory as part of the national curriculum.[46] In 2016, the Angelus Foundation merged with Mentor UK.[47] In 2018, Stewart was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to drug education.[48]

Honours and awards

In November 1999, Stewart was voted by Good Housekeeping Magazine as the 51st most influential woman in Great Britain.[49]

In December 2009, she was voted one of the five most inspirational women in the UK by The Sun's Fabulous Magazine,.[49] In 2010, she won the Addidi Inspirational Award.[50] and in 2018, Stewart was voted as one of the UK's 50 most inspirational women by the Daily Mail's Femail.[51]

References
  1. "Maryon Stewart: Broadcaster, author & changemaker". Huff Post.
  2. "Managing Menopause Naturally". 18 January 2019.
  3. "The Menopause Directory".
  4. Margarette Driscoll (31 May 2015). "A Grieving Mother's Bittersweet Moment of Triumph Over Legal Highs". The Sunday Times.
  5. "Maryon Stewart". Penguin Books.
  6. "Menopause in the Workplace".
  7. "Menopause in the Workplace".
  8. "Ageing Well Speakers" (PDF). Longevity Leaders Congress.
  9. Lynne Franks (29 March 2012). "Health Guru Who Leads Fight Against Lethal Party Drugs". The Jewish Chronicle.
  10. "Maryon Stewart at Amazon". Amazon UK.
  11. Maryon Stewart (12 September 2007). "Comments on Menopause Study". Neurology Online Edition.
  12. Vicki Psarias (14 July 2017). "How To Beat Period Pain The Natural Way". The Honest Mum.
  13. "PMS sufferers 'consider suicide'". news.bbc.co.uk/. 5 February 2001.
  14. Julia Burness (11 December 2001). "Let Your Diet Lift The Curse of PMT". The Independent.
  15. Maryon Stewart (11 December 2001). "No More PMS!". Ebury Publishing.
  16. Maryon Stewart (11 March 2019). "Wise Up at Perimenopause". becomeclothing.com.
  17. Maryon Stewart (31 July 2017). "Menopause Misery for Millions". Hippocratic Post.
  18. Tami Patzer (10 November 2017). "Reinvention in Midlife". Business Innovators Radio.
  19. Stewart, Maryon (20 July 2017). The Natural Menopause Plan. Nourish. ASIN 1848993307.
  20. Aisling O'Leary (18 October 2019). "10 books to help women navigate their way through menopause". The Evening Standard.
  21. Stewart, Maryon (10 November 2020). "Manage Your Menopause Naturally". New World Library.
  22. Ann Robinson (7 August 2017). "HRT and vaginal moisturisers? Here's what really helps menopausal women". The Guardian.
  23. Marija Butkovic (24 October 2022). "Meet 11 female scientists, innovators and entrepreneurs changing the narrative on menopause". Forbes.
  24. "Soy and the menopause". 15 April 2002.
  25. Marija Butkovic (24 October 2022). "Meet 11 female scientists, innovators and entrepreneurs changing the narrative on menopause". Forbes.
  26. Stewart, Maryon (1 December 1992). The Vitality Diet Second revised edition. Optima. ASIN 0356207617.
  27. Stewart, Maryon (21 May 1998). Maryon Stewart's Zest for Life Plan Guide. Headline Book Publishing. ASIN 0747259704.
  28. Stewart, Maryon (6 August 1992). Beat Sugar Craving: The Revolutionary 4-Week Diet. Vermilion. ASIN 0852239157.
  29. Stewart, Maryon (4 October 2001). The Model Plan: Eating Well, Looking Good, Feeling Great. Vermilion. ASIN 0091882427.
  30. Stewart, Maryon (14 September 1995). "Healthy Parents, Healthy Baby". Headline Publishing Group.
  31. Stewart, Maryon (5 January 2006). The Real Life Diet. Piatkus. ASIN 0749925450.
  32. Stewart, Maryon (6 November 1997). No More IBS!. Vermilion. ASIN 0091815932.
  33. Stewart, Maryon (21 November 1997). "No More PMS! Fourth revised edition". Vermilion – via Amazon.
  34. Stewart, Maryon (15 June 1987). "Beat PMT Through Diet". Vermilion – via Amazon.
  35. Stewart, Maryon (4 May 2000). Cruising Through The Menopause: Managing Your Menopause Successfully Without HRT. Vermilion. ASIN 0091856507.
  36. Stewart, Maryon (28 March 2007). The Natural Menopause Kit. Nourish. ASIN 095547695X.
  37. Stewart, Maryon (21 October 2003). Beat Menopause Naturally. Natural Health Advisory Service. ASIN 0954524616.
  38. Stewart, Maryon (4 May 2000). The Phyto Factor, second revised edition. Vermilion. ASIN 0091856558.
  39. Stewart, Maryon (30 January 1997). Every Woman's Health Guide: The Woman's Nutritional Advisory Service Handbook for Drug-free Health. Headline Book Publishing. ASIN 0747277893.
  40. Stewart, Maryon (5 April 2001). The Natural Health Bible: An A-Z guide to drug-free health, second revised edition. Vermilion. ASIN 0091856140.
  41. Stewart, Maryon (18 May 1995). Beat PMS Cookbook, second revised edition. Vermilion. ASIN 009180664X.
  42. Neil Tweedie (24 June 2009). "GBL:'Why haven't they banned it?'". The Telegraph.
  43. David Leppard (17 August 2014). "Legal highs set to kill more than heroin". The Sunday Times.
  44. House of Commons Home Affairs Committee (3 December 2012). "Drugs: Breaking the Cycle, Ninth Report of Session 2012–13, Volume II" (PDF).
  45. Hansard (9 June 2015). "Psychoactive Substances Bill [HL], Volume 762, Second Reading".
  46. Toby Helm (3 March 2012). "One year on, why I want young people to learn from my daughter's death". TheGuardian.com.
  47. "Experts from Mentor UK". 2016.
  48. "New Year's Honours 2018". Gov.UK.
  49. "Learning to love yourself – Weight loss without dieting with Maryon Stewart". 23 February 2016.
  50. "Creating Ripples – Maryon Stewart". RDP.
  51. "Inspirational Woman: Maryon Stewart, Healthcare Expert & CEO, Healthy, Wise & Well". We Are The City.
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